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Get Rich With: Profitable Leisure Time
Here at Mr. Money Mustache, the word “Leisure” seems to come up quite a bit. This is not only because it is a classic and amusing old-fashioned word, much like “Fancy”, but also because it is at the...
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Weekend Edition: Happy Mother’s Day
It’s a warm and sunny day here at the Money Mustache Compound, and my little boy and his Mum are outside planting some new plants in an area of the backyard known as the Mother’s Day Garden. It all...
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I’ll show you my Electricity Bill if You show me Yours
With the feel-good articles of the Weekend Edition behind us, it’s time to get back to some hard numbers and some moneymakin’. After slicing your car expenses, which we’ve done a lot recently, one of...
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How Not to use your Air Conditioning
Happy July 18th. It sure is hot these days, isn’t it? Statistically speaking, a good portion of the continental US and Canada has its hottest average day of the year right around now. So I thought it...
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Mr. Money Mustache vs. No Impact Man
The Triple M Family enjoyed a rather enlightening movie night tonight. These days, we tend to watch all our movies together, and we usually let the kid make the viewing choice, using the nicely...
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An $800 Gift From Me to You
Last week I wrote up an article about cutting your home heating costs. The discussion that followed in the comments section was full of more great information, and it even led to me making a small...
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Toyota Prius – Ass Kicker, or Trouble Maker?
This is a special bonus follow-up to yesterday’s article on Cash-Efficient Cars. There seems to be widespread confusion about the value of hybrid cars like the Toyota Prius. Are they worth the extra...
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Electric Cars: Are they For Real?
The other day, the lady and I were biking through the parking lot of the fancy Natural Grocers food store, when I suddenly screeched to a halt, without even realizing why I had done it. It turns out...
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Are You Cleaning Out Your Own Wallet?
Little MM and a friend from the neighborhood demonstrate better living through dirt. I’m pretty sure we’re all being scammed. I have been collecting evidence on this for over 15 years now, and it’s...
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An Interview with Juliet Schor, Author of Plenitude
Early in the life of this blog, several readers wrote to me to recommend a book called Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth. I quickly biked to the library, checked it out, read it...
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Beating the Stock Market – With DIY Insulation
We learned that a Honda Odyssey with all seats including front removed, holds exactly 41 bags of insulation. Well, I’m almost done rebuilding that house I have been working on since last fall. There...
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Mr. Money Mustache’s Holiday Living Guide
In my half of the Earth, we’ve recently drifted past the Winter Solstice – the shortest, darkest, day of the year and usually one of the coldest too. Some might consider this a depressing time, but...
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An Interview with Mother Earth on Climate Change
Mother Earth shows off a little, the Equator, October 2015 For the past three years, I’ve had the privilege of making an annual trip to the equator of our planet, spending a week or two absorbing the...
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Notes on Giving Away my First $100,000
For my 42nd birthday, Mrs. MM let me give away all this money. Here’s a little quiz: Suppose you are living an extremely happy life – all your material needs and wants are met, and there is still...
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How to Give Money (and Get Happiness) More Easily
If you have more money than you need, you should start giving some of it away. That’s the lesson I learned about a year ago, when I took a gamble and donated $100,000 to a variety of charities,...
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Our Shared Ongoing Battle To Not Buy A Tesla
Like you, I am pretty much resigned to the fact that I’m going to have to buy a Tesla at some point. I can tell because I have read every last scrap of Tesla news and inadvertently memorized every...
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