[...] cost of items to hours worked.  This idea comes from my all-time favorite personal finance book, Your Money or Your Life. In the book, the authors advocate calculating your real hourly wage as the total amount of time [...]

[...] lower mortgage puts us closer to financial independence.  In my favorite personal finance book Your Money or Your Life, the authors suggest minimizing your monthly expenses so that you can afford to do something you [...]

[...] Frugal Dad review – “When I closed the book one thought came to mind – If I had only read this book ten years ago! I’m quite sure if I had I would have already experienced financial independence.” [...]

[...] may have even less. That’s fine – as they say in the book that inspired this entire exercise, Your Money or Your Life, “No shame, no [...]

[...] I willing to give up x hours of life energy at work to pay for this [...]

[...] made me a little skeptical as to its relevancy today. Great books can hold up to the test of time (Your Money or Your Life), but some are “dated” only one year after their release. I found Kiss the Rat Race [...]

[...] The other day my annual dose of reality arrived in the mail – my social security statement, sent compliments of the Social Security Administration. In it I found the usual listing of annual wages dating back to my first pizza job at 16 years old. It is comforting to know that if I die my wife and kids will receive a “special one-time death benefit of $255.” Great, that ought to be just enough to pay off the singer at the funeral. Instead of doing the usual file-it-and-forget-it routine I decided to run through a little exercise I read about in Your Money or Your Life. [...]

[...] a Life was another book that wasn’t on my initial wish list for 2008, but after reading Your Money or Your Life and being fascinated by its ideas, I discovered this “follow up” book published a few [...]

[...] It totally changed the way I think about money, retirement and careers. Up until reading this book (review) I resigned myself to the fact I would probably be working until a ripe old age. The thought of [...]

[...] with Your Money or Your Life, The Total Money Makeover really had a lasting impact on my life. I have been a fan of Dave Ramsey [...]