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From The Cash Dad …
“Do you have trouble with impulse buys? Maybe you see a sale, or find a great deal. If you don’t learn how to control yourself when an impulse strikes, your budget will be destroyed.
It won’t matter how well-intentioned it was. Because you can’t really budget for impulse buys.”
Keep reading … IMPULSE BUYS WILL DESTROY EVEN THE BEST BUDGET
LIGHT A FIRE UNDER YOUR RETIREMENT! 
From Financial Wellness DVM … FIRE stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early. You have enough accumulated in your investments that you can live off of your assets without having earned income. You are living off of passive income, examples which include stock dividends and real estate income. Your days as an employed person in the […]
Looking to hit Financial independence and retire early? Here are the nine essential tools you will need at your disposal to reach FIRE 9 Essential Weapons to Reach Financial Independence | Your Money Geek Related
I’m FIREd up. I recently came across an article about the “Financial Independence, Retire Early” (FIRE) movement that blew my mind. It was so ill-informed and closed-minded that I felt I needed to write a rebuttal. Misunderstanding FIRE and Early Retirement – HisHerMoneyGuide Related
Many purveyors of FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) have large incomes. These are people such as doctors or lawyers who make large salaries but live a modest, middle class lifestyle. This allows them to pile up money and reach financial independence in their thirties or forties. Others reach FIRE through extreme frugality. Reducing their expenses […]
From Dividends Down Under … “‘Automation’ means something different to each person. Automation could mean automated cars and trucks. Whatever it means to you, automation has changed, or is going to change, the world. So why do we care so much about automation? Well, it could seriously affect investment returns in the future. I’m not […]
From MSOLife … This post is dark. FIRE posts tend to be super upbeat and confident, but this is not one of those posts. High inflation or hyperinflation is a massively destructive force, and you need to know about it. In engineering, you’re taught to look at all risks. If a risk is remote, but […]
From Greg at The Money Vikings … “We know that life is made up mainly of micro decisions each day and each moment. Even huge human efforts like putting a man on the moon were comprised of thousands if not millions of small decisions that led to the ultimate moment that the Apollo 11 astronauts […]
From Get Rich Slowly … We like to think that early retirement is a relatively recent invention. It’s not. As proof, here’s an article on early retirement from the February 1957 issue of Life magazine. This could have been written in 2017. The topics and concerns are the same. What early retirement was like in […]
From Create My Independence Podcast “In this podcast Jim Collins, author of The Simple Path to Wealth, talks F-You money, about stepping away from and it all, fear and investing with Kraig Mathias” Listen to the podcast RIGHT HERE Related
If you have a 403b plan, brace yourself: your retirement savings are adrift in the Wild West of the financial services industry. Why Your 403b Sucks Beyond Belief | Millionaire Educator Related
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