Budgets Are Sexy was one of the first blogs I discovered when I started my blogging journey. At the time, the author of the blog was J. Money, a mysterious dude who sported strange hair.
I liked J. Money’s style. He wasn’t afraid to write about taboo topics like working as a phone sex operator. He also had a unique voice that wouldn’t have gotten him a gig at the Wall Street Journal but was highly entertaining.
In a lot of ways, J’s writing style informed mine. I didn’t have to be prim and proper. I could talk about whatever I wanted to talk about. I could just be me. Hence dinosaurs!
And there was something else I liked about J, his charitable work. For those of us who have made it, giving back seems like the next step:
- Discover FIRE.
- Hustle!
- Save lots of money.
- Quit work.
- Realize that you’ve saved too much.
- Give others who are less fortunate a lift.
I was happy to be able to talk to J about charitable giving and more on a recent Mile High FI episode. Listen:
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More 1500 Days!!!
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- Facebook: Facebook group and page
- YouTube: My channel is mostly devoted to home improvement, but I have some other material coming up soon too.
- Instagram: Pretty pictures of dinosaurs, sunsets, and nail guns!
- Twitter: Spontaneous, often insane, ramblings
- Coworking space: On the surface, MMM HQ is a coworking space. Look a little deeper and you’ll see that we’re really building community. The members of MMM HQ are some of the finest people I know.
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J is the bomb! One of the coolest things about this community is that it is diverse. You’ve got university professors and medical doctors and retired city street department people and military members and heavy metal rockers and children’s book writers all having polite and warm discussions about how to tame money and let it work for you. J. Money is poles apart from someone like me in my mid-sixties, conservative, engineering background, country music fan, yet he’s taught me a lot about the financial aspects of life. I’ve never met him but he feels like a friend because I’ve listened to him for so many hours.
This may be my favorite comment of all time.