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In this episode of The Income for Life Show, Matt and Sam broadcast from their new home base in Kansas City, Missouri.They discuss the recent office move from Topeka, Kansas, sharing the challenges and humorous moments along the way. They dive into the relevance of the Big Beautiful Bill to retirement plans, including key tax bracket changes and myths. The show also features a listener question discussing the advantages of moving to a no-income-tax state like Florida.Lastly, Matt and Sam recount their recent trip to New York City, highlighting their experiences at the New York Stock Exchange, Harry’s on Wall…

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I just got introduced to the brilliant game ProgressQuest which along with Bartle’s observations of the online gaming world is rich in applications for understanding the real world, which in many ways can also be compared to a big game. Perhaps, a designed game? ProgressQuest is a spoof on the MMORPG habit of “grinding” for experience points, that is, engaging in a non-entertaining behavior (killing non-player monsters) to achieve some other end, specifically an increase in levels, wealth, special weapons. Just stop me, whenever you get the point of this analogy ProgressQuest requires very little interaction from the player. If…

I always smile when I hear about the backbreaking labor of using clotheslines to dry clothes instead of the backbreaking labor required to buy and maintain a clothes dryer. When I hang a load of wet clothes out to dry I bend my back exactly three times; because I’m smart, you know Instead of transferring all the clothes to the hamper and bending down each time to get a new piece of clothes, I fish the clothes up and put them on my shoulder if it’s a shirt or a pair of pants or in my hand if its a…

I think the reason that many people have the need to spend so much money and save more than 1 million for retirement is that is that they feel that security is achieved through ownership of multi-bed/bathroom houses (castles) that are built around car garages that house full size cars or big SUVs sometimes in the form of military vehicles. This trend towards bigger and more reinforced structures has been especially strong since 9/11 and of course easy financing helped the trend along. Conversely status is demonstrated by the things (trophies?) they put in it. Big/new TVs, big/new fridges, big/new…

Welcome back to another monthly update from Root of Good! This is a bonus edition covering the last TWO months. Many readers reached out to me to find out where the May update went. The truth is I was way too busy with a series of back to back to back cruises around the world. I only had a few days in Raleigh between each cruise, so I had to focus on other things while in town. In May we flew to the west coast and took an 11 night cruise to Alaska. After that, we flew home for a few…

Kudos to the marketing people of Kimberly-Clark, the company that makes Kleenex. They somehow managed to convince all of us (by which I mean you guys, not me) that blowing your nose in a disposable piece of paper rather than a handkerchief is the proper way to dispose of snot. Of course this provides a steady source of income for the company and a steady sink of expenses for everybody who haven’t learned the art of the snot rocket or consider snot rockets a breach of etiquette in a corporate environment, well, I guess that goes for all of us.…

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I am not really a big fan of lists of tips of “small actionable steps”. While fun, at least as long as they’re short, I don’t find such lists very helpful(*), mostly because they either list things I’m already doing (turn the light off hen you leave the room) or things that do not apply (clip coupons). The tips I enjoy the most are the “maybe you should look into this”-type of tips. Pointers that would require some research on my part but which I would not otherwise have thought of myself in a million years or maybe two or…

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