Some people are hesitant to FIRE (or even retire at all). They’re concerned about losing their physical or mental health, their purpose in life, or simply being bored. Fortunately, Allison and I haven’t had any of these problems since FIRE’ing … Read More
It’s been a few months since our last post, Our 2022 Game Plan: Re-emerging from the Ice. As you can see from this post’s title we’ve been quite busy. We went to Puerto Rico, I got COVID, we wrote our … Read More
At the beginning of 2021, we made a list of 12 goals for the year. We divided them up into four areas of life: projects, health, connecting, and finances. When the year was over we took inventory on how well … Read More
The year 2021 certainly was a mix of highs and lows. Between vaccines, Delta, boosters, and Omicron, it was quite a rollercoaster. Like everyone, our 2021 was up and down and all over the place. Along the way, we did … Read More
How much money do you truly need to achieve FIRE (Financial Independence / Retiring Early)? This is probably the most common question and biggest concern of those pursuing early retirement. Most people use the popular Multiply by 25 Rule and … Read More
Allison and I attended our first FinCon, the self-proclaimed “money nerd” conference, in 2018 (in Orlando). I had an opportunity to be a speaker, and we met lots of influencers in the FIRE space. We also combined it with a … Read More
In April of 2021, we set up an interesting experiment by investing $10K that we had sitting in cash. We put it into five $2K stocks / ETFs that we thought would be worthwhile investments over the next 12 months. … Read More
When Allison’s sister rescheduled her wedding from September 2020 to June 2021 due to COVID-19 (like so many other people), we had two choices. We could either fly from Oakland to NYC and double mask on the plane (since vaccination … Read More
Do you have cash stashed away somewhere that you’ve been hesitant about or unsure what to do with? Maybe you have a random savings, checking, or money market account that you forgot about. For us, that would be $10K that’s … Read More
Allison and I got laid off from our jobs in January of 2015. At the time, we had no idea it would be the last time we would ever work “real jobs” again. We were in our early 40s and … Read More