Hardcore Savings "Eventually, a moment of clarity arrived... sometimes it's good to be crazy." Cenote Swimming in Valladolid, Mexico If you've poked around my website at all, you already know how much we like "crappy" jobs.  (If you're scratching your head, read these posts:   #1  and  #2 .)  In those posts, I explained how we moved to rural teaching districts ("crappy" places in the eyes of many but not ours) where we were able to dramatically increase our net worth through a combination of hardcore savings and frugal living.  To be honest, I'm a little tired of writing about those two jobs, but I realized that I haven't told the full story. The Inside Baseball Around March of 2009 my wife and I were doing a lot of things right financially.  We were both maxing out our 403b and IRA accounts, we had a net worth around $400,000, a nice home, a modest debt load, and our spending was in check.…