So I was reading this article about FIRE, and wow is it awful! (After-the-fact NOTE: I don’t blame the author – read on, MacDuff!) Right off the bat, the author misses the point of FatFIRE and LeanFIRE – these are… Continue Reading
See last post for the first half of my momentous wall of text. To continue… Real estate is my other slightly more passive (theoretically) income stream. I say theoretically because the way I’ve set up this business is more labor-intensive… Continue Reading
This is actually a pretty complex question, and I’ll need to dip into the distant past a bit to explain. At the moment I have four income streams: Jobby-job/W2 income, collectibles income (Amazon, eBay, and Facebook), and real estate income.… Continue Reading
I mean, yeah, some totals are fine, but what the hell is in those buckets anyway? Well, I’ll tell you. Not enough! But, while I’m working on that (full buckets are fun buckets – cheeeeeeeesy) I’ll break out a bit… Continue Reading
This is the first of what will be many regular (maybe monthly?) updates. I’m planning to generally lead with the summary bullets and then follow with a bit of analysis (whining) or explanation (whining) about why my expenses went to… Continue Reading
It’s pretty much a happy accident that this is six months into the year. (Would have been a happier accident if I’d actually launched this thing when I intended to.) I just happened to want to start writing the blog… Continue Reading
I figure that you’ll want to see some data points, and I want a chance to crow about my successes a bit, so I’m backdating this to the beginning of the year. Just to be clear – I’ve been working… Continue Reading
I ran across this article today, and it paints a possibly grim picture of the future: Baby Boomers Could Spur a Housing Bust Now, I have two responses to this. The first is kind of reassuring – never forget that… Continue Reading
What’s the point of this whole thing? I don’t know entirely, and I’m sure we’ll all find out together along the way, but I wanted to start a blog to share what has been my journey toward Financial Independence starting… Continue Reading