Category: Lifestyle
Don’t Be A Donkey
Financial independence/early retirement (FIRE) blogs can be summed up with a few simple directives that nearly everyone repeats: Save a large percentage of your income (preferably at least 50%). Learn to be a DIY investor. Invest in index funds, or dividend focused stocks, or real estate, or all of them. Minimize your taxes. Consider yourself […]
Are We Financially Independent?//Breaking Down the Budget
In our last post, we shared that our annual spending was up approximately $10,000 compared to the previous year. We are pretty anti-budget, and we appreciate having the ability to be flexible with our spending. However, we are even more anti-being ignorant of important stuff. I think knowing where our cash is flowing qualifies. Our […]
Money Isn’t Everything!
In our November progress update, I briefly mentioned that we made a sizable spur of the moment charitable donation. We were trying to limit our spending for the month, but thought this was a perfect opportunity to give money to a cause we couldn’t pass up. I want to share a bit more about our […]
Lessons From The Train Wreck
The dominant topic in the news is the extremely divisive presidential election. Each of the major party candidates is deeply flawed and wildly unpopular for reasons we have all heard way too many times. So instead of rehashing things that could be read a million other places around the internet, I would like to employ […]
September Update
A Good Month (In Many Ways) September was a great month! The weather is turning cooler and the days are getting shorter. While we will miss our summer pool time with little EE and extended hours of daylight after our workdays, the fall is our favorite time of the year in the northeast. There is […]
Our Ultra-Safe Early Retirement Plan
In a recent post, we shared our ideas to develop a completely redundant second income stream after reaching financial independence. In good times, this plan will allow us to live with an abundance mentality as we have throughout our working years. Should bad times arise, we will have a plan in place and ample cushion […]
