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The Sunday Best is a collection of articles I’ve curated from the furthest reaches of the internet for your reading pleasure.
Every week, I scan hundreds of headlines, read dozens of posts, and bring you the best of the best to save you time and mental energy.
Financial Independence (FI) is a primary focus, but it’s an awfully broad topic. I tend to approach FI and early retirement from a fatFIRE perspective and through the lens of a physician, so I expect to see those biases in the selected articles.
Related topics that have become recurrent themes include early retirement, selective frugality, tax issues, travel, physician issues, and investing.
For more great articles, take a peek at The Sunday Best Archives. Now let’s get to the best… The Sunday Best!
Jorge Sanchez, MD, curated this week’s articles.
The Sunday Best (02/25/2024)
Managing finances and money matters as a couple can be challenging. In fact, dealing with money effectively is a factor in relationship satisfaction, and money problems are a leading contributor to divorce rates in the U.S. Here are nine common money mistakes couples make and how to avoid them: 9 Money Mistakes Couples Make and How to Avoid Them.
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Underestimating the impact of inflation in retirement is a common mistake. Here are nine other retirement mistakes investors make: From My Own Advisor, Top 10 Retirement Mistakes
Why spending intentionally is the key to a successful spending plan, and tips to help you do it: From The White Coat Investor, Steps to Intentional Spending
- Darius Foroux shares four habits he’s formed that helped him to control impulse buying: 4 Habits to Manage Impulse Buying
- Why a poor understanding of your spending is nearly impossible to overcome: From Humble Dollar, Horse Then Cart
Conventional wisdom dictates that retiring with debt — especially a debt as large and significant as a mortgage — is financially dicey at best and potentially ruinous at worst. But that’s not how Brian Lindmeier sees it. “It just doesn’t make any sense at all to pay off the house,” he said. From the New York Times, Keeping a Mortgage After 65: A ‘No Brainer’ or a Big Risk?
Bec Wilson joins Humans vs Retirement to share her journey into retirement as well as the key themes and pillars in creating an epic retirement: How To Have An Epic Retirement with Bec Wilson.
Why dependence on conventional finance wisdom is dangerous: From Young Money, What Are We Assuming?
- Humble Dollar discusses the importance of sanity check and having a neutral pair of eyes on your retirement plan: Faulty Assumptions.
The standard building blocks of a successful financial life: From Contessa Capital Advisors, Why are the lines for the bathroom so long?
- MorningStar discusses why following a simplified approach in personal finance is the best strategy: The Key to Personal Financial Planning: Being Lazy.
11 common financial mistakes that are mostly avoidable: From Humble Dollar, Easily Avoided
Why you shouldn’t marry picking stocks with financial planning: From A Wealth of Common Sense, Stock Picking is Not the Same Thing as Portfolio Management.
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When planning for your retirement, there are a variety of things to consider in addition to how much you might be saving. Nonfinancial factors will play a role, as will changes in your personal goals and priorities after retirement. Here’s a list of essential non-financial aspects to consider in retirement: Non-Financial Aspects of Retirement
3 thoughts on “The Sunday Best (02/25/2024)”
It’s interesting your Sunday best shows up on Wednesdays or Thursdays. I think you should adjust your calendar going forward.
Hi – it’s published on Sunday and we email our subscribers. How’re you receiving it?
I see it on the blog posts, it used to show up on Sunday mornings but for the last 2-3 weeks shows up middle of the week