1/16/2021

- Don’t Watch, Read or Listen to Mainstream News (Freedom is Groovy); Since November, I’ve been on a “news blackout” and I’ve been a lot happier.
- A brief history of consumer culture (The Reader); Interesting notes about the dawn of consumerism in the 2th century.
- Keeping your medical records could save your life (One Frugal Girl); Tale of woe going to various specialists and them not having vital information on her condition, and how to request your medical information.
- Financial Advice on the Internet (Wallet Hacks): thoughts on when to take advice/ideas and when to pass on them.
- How to plan your days, months and years (Darious Foroux): For those of us who are planners, it’s a good article on how he plans his life, and how that worked out. Excellent read
- Its time to prepare for the market to get weird (A Wealth of Common Sense): Interesting discussion on how the Fed and elections may affect the markets and economy going forward.
- 2020 Goal review (Time in the Market): He didn’t do to well
- Guide to Better Budgeting (My tipid Tips); Simple steps, easily applied
- Scared to Death of Early Retirement – no More! (Go Curry Cracker); Five years in, this couple provides update on how their doing.
- A Year Long Spending Moratorium (Get Rich Slowly); Useful exercise in only spending on essentials for a period of time.
- Common Real Estate Investing Mistakes – and how to avoid them (Women who money)