Fundamentals of Early Retirement – Part 3
The Extreme Early Retirement Account Everyone Needs to Know About In Part 2 of our Fundamentals of Early Retirement series, we learned that we’ll need about 25 times our estimated …
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Fundamentals of Early Retirement – Part 2
How Much Money Do I Need to Retire? In Part 1 of our Fundamentals of Early Retirement series, we learned the power of reducing our monthly cost of living. Slashing …
Fundamentals of Early Retirement – Part 1
Reduce Your Monthly Cost of Living Since I retired at age 40, I’ve had the pleasure of sharing my new (un)employment status with several friends and former co-workers. The biggest …
Will You Be Remembered at Work?
“I’m sorry. I’m not willing to put in that kind of time,” I said to my new boss with an air of confidence I didn’t even realize I possessed. He …
The Power of Emotional Bookmarks
In 2006, my wife and I made the choice to quit my job, leave everything we had known, pack our entire life into a truck, and move to another city …
The Beginner’s Guide to Investing – Part 5
Cookie Sales Are a Good Thing In The Beginner’s Guide to Investing – Part 4, we discovered how wonderful passively managed index funds are when it comes to buying a …
The Beginner’s Guide to Investing – Part 4
Buying All the Cookies for Less! In The Beginner’s Guide to Investing – Part 3, we learned that mutual funds are the pre-packaged variety packs of the investment world, and …
The Beginner’s Guide to Investing – Part 3
Buy All the Cookies In The Beginner’s Guide to Investing – Part 2, we learned that the investing magic happens when the value of the stocks we buy increases beyond …
The Beginner’s Guide to Investing – Part 2
The Cookies In The Beginner’s Guide to Investing – Part 1 we learned that there are different types of investment accounts, and these accounts act kind of like cookie jars …
The Beginner’s Guide to Investing – Part 1
The Cookie Jars I know I should be investing money, but I don’t even know where to start. This is a statement I would often hear from friends and co-workers. …