Tweet Part 1 – Rejecting Lifestyle Inflation College life is a simple life. Living in a single small room with a roommate. Biking to class. Getting books from the library. Cutting costs wherever you can to save up for beer money (which never amounted to much since there were no good paying jobs available). Sounds [...]
Tweet Part 1 – Accept that you’ve been brainwashed That’s right! You’ve been brainwashed. And it gets worse, you’re still being brainwashed. Every day, more brainwashing. And it’s coming from everywhere. It starts with marketing. The evil, vicious world of marketing. They brainwashed you into “needing” a GI Joe action set when you were a [...]
Tweet Over the past 6 months, this blog has kind of moved towards a reputation of early retirement. And that’s cool, it’s the shiny object that draws people in. But a brave new life is more than that. It’s a life that values family, friends, and leisure over hard work and money. It’s a life [...]
Tweet “Why?” – Stella, my daughter My daughter is about to turn two, and she recently started asking “Why?” Every time she does, my eyes light up in excitement! You see, “Why?” is a game kids play starting around age two, and they’ll continue to play until their parents, teachers, TV shows, and government [...]
Tweet As with all investment articles on this site, I’ll just warn that I’m not an investment professional, and this should not be taken as advice. In my recent monthly status I mentioned that I’ve begun a new experiment in my ever growing portfolio of alternative investments. Before I go into the details, [...]
Tweet Each month I calculate my family’s cash flow and balance sheet to track my path to extreme early retirement. I do this to ensure we are spending our money on things we need and activities we enjoy. My intention with sharing it here with such transparency is not to show off my income or [...]
Tweet I’ve spoken a lot about income diversification, using various investment strategies to create the income. One of the things that bugs be about these types of income, however, is that I had to do a lot of it with taxable money. And since I’m still working a full time job, in a high marginal [...]
Tweet I’ve thought about this quite a bit, and I think I’m willing to say that this has been the best year of my life. If not the best, certainly the most significant. I can say without a doubt that I’m not the same person that I was on January 1st. And I don’t mean [...]
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