Hello! My name is Matt.
Welcome to Saving Your Tail, a personal finance site devoted to helping you make the most of your money.
Personal finance has been a passion of mine from early on. I became hooked on discovering new and clever ideas to save money, earn extra income, and invest it, and I began putting those ideas to work as soon as I had the first penny to my name.
My career started as an engineer focused on cost reduction, and I applied those same principles to our personal finances. After a decade working on spacecraft, bulldozers, and defense products, I reached a major life goal: achieving financial independence in just 10 years.
Along the way, I was blessed to meet the love of my life who shared my same values of frugality.
We started out from fairly humble beginnings. I began my career with a salary in the $50K’s, and my wife spent most of our marriage in the incredibly important, but unpaid, job of homemaker for our growing family of now 5. So despite my higher income as my career grew, our combined household income was similar to the average U.S. family for most of my career.
The key to us achieving financial independence in just 10 years was the collection of money saving, earning, and investing ideas I’d learned over the years. With these ideas, we were able to eventually save nearly 70% of our income to invest and grow while living a comfortable lifestyle.
After seeing many friends & their families struggling to make ends meet with similar incomes in an environment of high inflation and a shaky economy, I began thinking of ways I could help others take control of their finances and live a better life, and the idea for this site was born.
My mission with this site is to share those same ideas with you, giving you the tools you need to reach your family’s financial goals sooner than you could ever imagine, and without having to make painful sacrifices along the way.
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