A blog about things I find useful
frugalprofessor I was voluntold to give a lunchtime seminar in our community on a topic of my choice. I converged on the topic of retirement savings. My slides are downloadable here. The presentation contains nothing I haven’t already harped on in the blog, of course. I just present the simple case of: 1.) Being frugal 2.) … Read more
To improve the navigation of this site, here’s a directory of Excel tools I have made: Federal Income Tax Calculator Calculates estimated tax liability to within a few bucks, but more importantly computes effective marginal tax rate at any level of income. Debt repayment & Net worth projection tool A tool to visualize the optimal … Read more
Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches I watched Lion and really enjoyed it. I had never heard of it before but found out about it through Justwatch, a great streaming filtering tool. Mike Piper, the Oblivious Investor, on why Vanguard’s Target Date Funds don’t use Admiral Shares (link). Moral of the … Read more
Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches I watched “A Man Called Ove” and enjoyed it. My wife thinks I am Ove; I agree. Life Past month has been crazy. Lots of travel. Little sleep. Hence the abbreviated update without much content. This month’s finances I’m most pleased with the low spending … Read more
I created a new tool, which was a pain in the butt to create, but I think it’s pretty nifty. Key inputs (all in yellow): Assets Liabilities (including interest rates) Income Desired annual funding of each account (in green; put $0 if you don’t care to fund the particular type of account, like a 529 … Read more
I do a fair bit of financial mentoring for fun. I’d like to open this up to the readers of this blog. If you’d like me to publicly dissect and optimize your finances, send me an email at [email protected]. I’ll make a blog post out of it so others can learn as well. In order for … Read more