Old School Coinage

So yeah....the title is pretty much self explanatory.  Do you ever have a freak out moment?  A point in time in which you just are pushed over the edge by emotions? I do. Wanna know what causes these occasional freakouts? Stuff. That's right.  Stuff.  Stuff that I own that needs to be taken care of.  I just get overwhelmed sometimes thinking about the amount of stuff that I need to do.  Pay this, pay that, save here, mow this, take the trash out, scoop the liter, etc... AHHHHHHHHH!!!!! And for some crazy reason I find myself sometimes wanting more stuff...how sick is that!!!??? I think that a lot of times I forget about the maintenance of the stuff I want.  Very recently for example I was over at a buddies house and noticed he had a nice new xbox one.  Sweet games, cool voice control, cutting edge tech...whats not to love?  I admit that as I sat there playing around with it I enjoyed it.  I enjoyed it so much that the thoug...

*For those of you astute readers out there you may have noticed that I changed my last net worth post to read first edition.  I did this because I miss wrote September when in fact September had not yet happened.  So without further ado here is the September issue of Old School's net worth... Hot off of Mints' press reveals that my net worth is now... $-132,257.33 O.k.  Well lets see where I was last month... $-134,908.26 That is an improvement of... + $2650.93 Woohoo!  O.k.  It may not be hitting the jackpot, but it is a step in the right direction.  How did this change occur? 1. Payed down the mortgage a little (We always put a little extra on our mortgage). 2. Saved some money and hit our $5000 in savings goal 3. Carpooled to work and spent less on fuel The vehicles we currently own did not really depreciate, which doesn't really matter to us because we plan on driving them until they die.     My ROTH actually went up by ...