Type of site | Personal finance blog |
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Available in | English |
Owner | Peter Jonathan Adeney[1] |
Created by | Peter Jonathan Adeney[1] |
Revenue | $400,000 annually as of 2017[2] |
URL | www |
Launched | 2011 |
Current status | Active |
Mr. Money Mustache is the website and pseudonym of Canadian-born blogger Peter Adeney.[1] Adeney retired from his job as a software engineer in 2005 at age 30 by spending only a small percentage of his annual salary and consistently investing the remainder, primarily in stock market index funds.[1][3][4]
Adeney lives in Longmont, Colorado, and contends that most middle-class individuals can and should spend less money and own fewer physical possessions. He argues that by doing this, they can live with increased financial freedom and happiness, reducing their environmental footprint in the process.[5] He has described the typical middle-class lifestyle as "an exploding volcano of wastefulness," particularly citing the overuse of and overspending on new cars as an example.[4] The blog has been featured and cited in various media outlets including MarketWatch,[6] CBS News,[7] and The New Yorker,[1] as well as others. He is the brother of Chris Adeney, a Canadian indie rock musician better known by the stage name Wax Mannequin.[8]
my brother (who, as a bit of trivia for you, happens to be the Canadian Indie Rock Star Wax Mannequin).