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The FIRE Movement. What is FIRE Finance and How Does it Work? The FIRE Movement
What is FIRE and how does it work? In the world of personal finance, FIRE stands for Financial...
Buying and Selling Abandoned Storage Units as a Side Hustle Buying and selling abandoned storage units as a way to make money is probably the most interesting side hustle...
Use The Rule of 25 to Calculate How Much You Need to Retire What is The Rule of 25?
The Rule of 25, also know as the Multiply by 25 Rule, attempts to define how much money...
Everything You Own is Garbage My financial epiphany has been more of gradual progression rather than a single 'aha!' moment. A handful of...
The Newbies Guide to Understanding FIRE Finance As more people become aware of and join the FIRE movement, the definition of FIRE continues to evolve. So just...
My 10 Step Plan to Get Rich Quick’ish and Retire Early Who doesn't want to get rich quick then ride off into the sunset to live the life of their dreams? I do - that wo...
FIRE is for Everyone, Regardless of Income Have you heard that FIRE is only for the wealthy? Unfortunately that narrative seems to be gaining a bit of ste...
How Our Family of Six is Thriving on a Single Income "I don't know how you do it" is a common reply I hear when someone finds out that I'm raising a family of six o...
How 14 Months of Unemployment Lead to Financial Independence Mike Tyson once said "everyone has a plan till they get punched in the face." The opposite was true for me. ...
5 Outdated Financial Rules that Need to be Broken These outdated financial rules were created by previous generations, but no longer hold true in today's world.If yo...
How to Calculate Retirement Costs for Anything Not long ago I was looking over my expenses when I had a financial epiphany of sorts. It was about the true re...
An Unhealthy Obsession With Money I'm pretty sure that I have an unhealthy obsession with money. You probably do too. This obsession snuck up on...
How to Build a Money Making Machine That Will Pay For Your Early Retirement Generally speaking, wealthy people get and stay rich because they make smart decisions with their money. They b...
Six Ways to Stay Patient and Motivated While Paying Down Debt This Camp FIRE Contributor article was written by Good Nelly
Debt Sucks
Paying down debt is one of the major cr...
A Big Savings Rate is Not Required to Retire Early Saving a large percentage of your income, like more than 50% of it, is often preached as a requirement necessar...
From Overburdened with Debt to Debt Free Within 3 Years This Contributor article was written by Good Nelly Today, I am going to share with you a story from our fina...
5 Ways to Reduce Financial Stress From Your Life Written by Jessie Connor While it is true that money can’t buy happiness, it’s also true that not having mon...
The Luxury Trap: When Niceties Become Necessities People are funny creatures. We quickly become accustomed to new luxuries and then we can't seem to live without...
How to Save 50% of Your Income (or more) In 3 Simple Steps This Contributor article was written by Just Start Investing. Learning how to save 50% of your earnings is a...
Diversify Your Income with These 7 Types of Passive Income Just a few short years ago I began taking on more responsibility at work, which lead to me bringing home bigger...
What is an ESPP? Employee Stock Purchase Program
If you work for a company that offers an Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)...
Could you Earn the Boy Scout Personal Finance Merit Badge? I love the Boy Scout motto: Be Prepared. The motto traces back to a book published in 1908 titled Scouting for...
How To Buy A New Car And Not Get Screwed. 5 Car Buying Tips From A Former Car Salesman. For the past decade I’ve driven my cars into the ground. Two of my last three cars were driven, quite literally...
23 Side Hustle Jobs I’ve Done To Make Money I've been finding unique ways to hustle for cash since I was a young kid. The first side hustle that I can reme...
The Six Layers of Financial Independence You're most likely reading this because you want to quit your job and retire early. If you explore that desire...
How Much Money Do I Need to be Rich? Most Americans define ‘rich’ as anyone that makes more money than they do. I define it like this: Rich
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What Will Happen to Your Investments in the Next Recession? Article written by Fred Leamnson The question - what happens to your investments in the next recession - has...
Acorns Micro Investing App Review Acorns Review summary: ACORNS: Invest Your Spare Change WHAT IS ACORNS? Acorns is a “mico-investing” serv...
To Be Successful Sooner, Unlearn What you Think You Know Unlearn What You Think You KnowSpoiler alert: society has already defined the path to a successful life for you. N...
Are You Penny Wise and Pound Foolish? Penny wise and pound foolish examples are everywhere. The term comes from an old English proverb that is somet...
Lifestyle Deflation is One Solution for Better Finances and a Happier Life A recent financial study found that 74% of Americans felt 'at least okay' about their finances. That's not too...
BEAM High Interest Banking App Review Review summary for ... BEAM: High Interest Banking App A NOTE OF CAUTION: BEAM claims that all funds are...
You Might As Well Get Paid Well For Your Hard Work I've said before on this blog that my parents didn't teach me about money. I've told you that my mom and dad t...
Crap! Tomorrow is Monday Unlike nobody, I don’t like being told what to do. Who does? Maybe that’s why I hate Monday so much. The though...
Living on Minimum Wage Living on minimum wage. It's something many have had to do, especially when we were younger. Maybe you had a mi...
Knowing Your Financial Break Even Point Will Tip the Scales in Your Favor Your Break Even Point is the best day of the month and you probably don't even know when, or what, it is. In...
The Time Value of Money The only unsolved hijacking in U.S. history is also a great example of the Time Value of Money. In 1971 a gu...
Use A Personal Finance Workback Schedule To Reach Your Financial Goals Knowing where you want to go is not the same as knowing how to get there. Even if you know exactly where you w...
The Law of the Harvest Applies to Your Finances Too The Law of the Harvest has biblical implications, but for the non-religious among us there are some parallels w...
New vs. Used: What Kind of Car Should You Buy? This Contributor article was written by Theodora Evans The archetypal dad’s advice will sound familiar: new...
Recession Proofing Your Financial Plan to Ensure Your FIRE Survives the Storm This article was written by Michael Dinich. The new hot item on the internet today is trying to become finan...
Get Ahead Faster with the Personal Finance Multiplier Effect There's a nifty little fact about personal finance that I LOVE: every positive thing you do in one area has a pos...
Be Tenacious With Your Financial Goals Have you ever wanted something so badly that you've said "I'd to ANYTHING to have that!"? I have too, but un...
Index and Chill – The Safe and Easy Way to Invest in the Stock Market The best way to build wealth and achieve FIRE is to invest your money. The best way to invest your money is to...
Lifestyle Inflation: What it is and How to Avoid It Do you remember what it felt like cashing that first paycheck from your first job? What did you spend it on?
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Lose Weight and Save Money Riding The Bus A few months ago my old van finally bit the dust. I’d paid cash for it several years earlier and the van had b...
Selling a Wealth Producing Asset is Like Killing the Golden Goose The finances behind FIRE isn't complicated: Spend less money than you earn
Invest that difference
El...
Teaching English in Asia to Reach Financial Independence Just two short years ago I was spinning my tires as a mediocre automobile salesperson near my hometown in Canad...
Work To Earn. Save Your Passion For Your Hobby. I recently stumbled across a video that offers some interesting work-related advice from Mike Rowe, the host of...
Living the FI Life: My Time Before and After FI When you're financially independent (FI) and your time is your own, that's living the FI-Life. Although I'm no...
Teaching Personal Finance 101 in High School Why High Schools and Colleges Need to Start Requiring Personal Finance Education
Nearly half of adults claim the...
An Open Love Letter to My Wife Last week my wife left me and the kids for the week so that she could fly home to visit her dad, who is battlin...
Are You Part of The Working Dead? Take 40 hours per week over a 45 year career, throw in one hour of commuting each working day and you come up w...
Is the Road to FIRE a Prison Sentence? Obsessed with Financial Independence
Many FIRE bloggers set a date when they expect to retire. Some shout it out...
Okay, I’m Ready To Die I’m officially ready to die. Not that I want to or anything. I’ve still got a few things I’d like to check of...
On the Path to FIRE, How Much Suffering is Too Much (or Not Enough?) By Lisa from The Give and Get
Burned by FIRE Finance
A few years ago, I was leading the ultimate frugal life, o...
Going Broke From Eating Out The three biggest expenses in most budgets are housing, food, and transportation. I feel like I've got a good...
3 Way Financial Independence May Save The Practice of Medicine This post was written by The Physician Philosopher The burnout rates in practicing physicians and physicians...
Don’t Tell Me What To Do I've had an epiphany of sorts. Rather than a flash of inspiration, or a sudden strike of brilliance, this ha...
Payback’s A Bitch Have you ever done something, either nefarious or hilarious, to someone else? Something that almost certainly...
How to Prepare for and Survive the Next Recession Be (financially) Prepared
The Boy Scouts teach it. Religions preach it. Today I'm going to add my voice to the c...
You’ll Get 3 Big Financial Opportunities in Life – Don’t Blow Them! By Greg Magnuson of The Money Vikings After years of investing and talking with many self-made wealthy peopl...
Stale Donuts: The Greatest Obstacle to FIRE By Ansley Fender
The Stale Donuts Test & the Financial Disadvantages of Instant Gratification
In my hous...
There Are Worse Things in Life Than Working I’m sitting in my favorite chair at the moment, legs crossed, computer in my lap, sipping my coffee and enjoyin...
Create Free Cash Flow to Catch FIRE Create Free Cash Flow
Many purveyors of FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) have large incomes. These ar...
Unique Money Saving Ideas Personal finance is simple. It comes down to four main factors: spend less money than you earn, save and inves...
The Best Financial Advice? One Size Fits One Personal Finance is Personal
You’re ready to up your money game, so you start searching for financial advice. Yo...
How We Manage As A One Car Family Of Six I'm A Car Guy
I love cars.
I got my first car when I was 15 years old. It was a 1972 Dodge Demon; Hemi Orange...
How Investing in Individual Stocks Can Help Get You FIREd Article by Joe Sheeley. We've all heard the conventional wisdom on investing: Invest only using index mutual...
Overcome Your Fear of Investing written by Lucas H. Parker Your job may give you and your family a certain kind of security that goes with a...
How To Effectively Double Your Next Raise At Work Want to get a bigger raise at work? Ever since I started pursuing FIRE I've done one little thing that's helpe...
Why I’m Not Paying Off My Student Loan Debt Early I still owe about $7,000 in student loan debt. Once that loan is gone I’ll be 100% debt free. I can't wait to b...
A Different Debt Elimination Plan: Make It Personal There are two main strategies for paying off debt. I'm sure you've heard of both:
1. Pay off your debt with t...
Sacrifices Stay at Home Parents Make When Living On A Single Income The first draft of this post was about the financial challenges my wife and I face while raising our family of...
How to Financially Prepare for Unemployment "You’re fired!" Words nobody wants to hear, but everyone needs to be prepared for. The best time to get pre...
Note to Self: Money is Stuff and Stuff Doesn’t Matter Note to self: A quick reminder to yourself on this gray, drizzly morning in Seattle. As you prepare to trade...
Keep The Money You Make Money is amazing! I mean, it must be right? Think about all the things people are willing to do just to ear...
Why Every Young Adult Should Start Pursuing FIRE This article was written by Early 20s Money
FIRE? What is That?
No, it is not an actual fire, and it certainly...
Saving Money To Save Money Today I reached another milestone in my quest to reach financial independence and retire early. Step number 3...
Financial Freedom is More Than Money Written by Millionaire Mob. The steps to financial freedom are not 'one size fits all.' Many people believe...
Repay Debt Faster by Budgeting for It The Camp FIRE Contributor article was written by Good Nelly Budgeting is often given a wrong meaning. Many p...
The Surprising First Steps to Improve Your Finances Do you ever feel like you're doing the Financial Two-Step? Two steps forward, two steps back. You're able t...
Tales from the Crypto I've been pretty vocal on Twitter about cryptocurrency. I own some of the stuff, I have fun with it and I get j...
Hurry Up and Wait Getting your personal finances in order isn't complicated. That's not to say it's easy, but for most people it...
What’s Your Financial Emergency Plan? Do you have a financial emergency plan? Many people have an emergency fund - but do you have a plan for how yo...
Writing My Obituary Brought Financial Perspective (And Dad Jokes. Lots of Dad Jokes) Despite the title of this post, this isn't a heavy or depressing post. A few weeks ago I walked into work and got s...
Is Your Side Hustle Holding You Back Financially? A short and sweet post today about something that I've been thinking about recently. Is your side hustle holdin...
The Many CycleLogical Benefits of Riding a Bike Before I begin, let me apologize to my non-American readers. This Cyclelogical post uses statistics and number...
Investing is Easy (and Required to Reach Financial Independence) I recently made a flippant comment on Twitter about how investing is easy. At the time my investment accounts...
Index and Chills – Don’t Get Spooked When the Market Does Happy Halloween, Campers! Today is the day when much of the Western world celebrates an ancient Celtic harvest...
What If You Just Can’t Save Money? This site is mostly about things you can do to get your personal finances in order and, if you're tenacious, re...
Reach Financial Independence Using The Three Solutions Rule I’ve been with my current employer for nearly five years now. Throughout that time I’ve held a few different p...
Slash Your Student Loans Before You Need Them By Mike Monfredi. I had heard that dental school was “expensive.” How expensive… eh? Didn’t have that exa...
Success is Like a Blister The biggest struggle in my journey to financial independence hasn't been finding ways to improve my budget, red...
5 Tips to Achieve Financial Independence from Investing in a Small Business Achieving FIRE is something many people aspire to achieve – but these goals require a lot of hard work. It can...
Airplane Mode: Help Yourself First Before any commercial airliner takes off, passengers are treated to some pre-flight safety instructions.
"Buck...
Budgets Work Like the String of a Kite Budgets get a bad rap. Many people feel held down and restricted by a budget, but the reality is that a budget...
Pull Yourself Up Financially And Physically By Actuary on FIRE Do you know what I think is the most perfect physical expression of financial independenc...
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