Photo credit When I turned 16, I got my dad’s hand-me-down Ford Escort. Along with this symbol of teenage freedom, I decided I needed adult responsibility and went out looking for my first part-time job so that I could pay my parents for the car payments every month and hopefully have a little spare cash [...]

By now, you know a couple things about me. Most notably, that I’m the kind of guy that buys a Lasik surgery groupon and goes about getting the procedure done as quickly and efficiently as possible. Knowing this, you must be wondering how it all turned out. Did it turn out fine, or did they [...]

I’m the kind of person that once I make a decision, I like to execute on that decision as quickly as possible. After purchasing the Lasik surgery I found the groupon for, I called the place to make an appointment. I called the office on a Monday, scheduled the consultation for that Thursday, and ended [...]

I’d been back and forth for a few years now about whether to get Lasik surgery. My vision wasn’t that bad and the procedure always seemed pretty expensive to me (normally around $2,000 per eye), so I didn’t know if the real benefits I would get from it were worth the money. After all, I [...]

After a lot of thought and deliberation, I’ve decided to bring back the Finavigation blog. For those that remember, the format of the blog before was like lessons in personal finance – mostly explaining things, simplifying the complex world of finance, and finding different ways to present the material so that it would be more [...]