Let’s be clear, when you have FU money you don’t have to wear pants, or socks for that matter! The power of FI can allow you to set some of your own rules, within reason of course. I am lucky that I can almost always wear sandals/Sanuks. I have Sanuks that look like shoes, but …Read More
My little dog Yola has been a HUGE part of our lives for almost 13 years. Being FIREd—as well as working from home for about 6 years before FIRE—we spent all day, most days with our little Yola. She’s the sweetest, loving, most trusting dog and companion anyone could ever wish to spend life with. …Read More
{These are my personal observations and opinions of the events that took place. I may be wrong} I attended a meeting for a family financial planning education group. I could tell from the pictures this would be some kind of recruitment or sales-y meeting. I had no idea it would make me physically sick to …Read More
I was wondering, at what point of an “oh-shit” disaster could/would cause me to go back to full-time work? Is there a part-time-work crisis level? What about the “I found some cool working opportunity that I like” to do instead of owning ALL of my time? Let’s back up before this moment of FIRE extinguishing. …Read More
72 hours of amazing! Last weekend I joined 60+ AMAZING people for a weekend of…well, when I really think about it, was a weekend that’s almost indescribable. It was a group of people “taking control of their financial lives in order to build an amazing future.” It was a group of people who have vastly …Read More
I know in so many ways I am frugal, but reading about vacation homes and muscle cars seems to distort the frugal picture. I then started thinking about people who are super frugal and live a VERY low cost of living. Then I wondered if there was an upper-Frugal, a super-frugal.