The more you research the FIRE movement, the more opinions you will begin to see. You will see people’s successes and their failures. There will be people who get it and people who are straying off the path of what this financial movement is suppose to be. This adventure needs to be enjoyed, it may … Read more It’s Not Deprivation
Do you need an Emergency Fund? This is a hotly debated topic in the finance community. A lot of it depends on where you are in your financial journey. An Emergency fund is typically thought of as 3-6 months of expenditures in an easily accessible account. The reason people advocate for an emergency fund is … Read more Emergency Fund?
What is a Successful Withdrawal Rate? I had someone recently ask me “what do you even do with your money when you retire?” When you start to think about the future and retirement, do you ever wonder how much you can safely withdrawal each year? In America, we have a problem with people running out … Read more How Much To Retire?
Has Debt Become the Normal? Some people say it started from the top. Without getting into political bias, just look at the national debt. We are around 23 trillion dollars in debt, let me write that number out, $23,000,000,000,000. That is a huge problem and we act like it is nothing. Now to what matters … Read more Debt
The True Cost of an Automobile. Man do I love my trucks. I have owned a Toyota Tacoma and a Ram 1500. I loved both of them, but then I did the stupid math on the cost of ownership and it was not a pretty realization for me. After I learned more about the FIRE … Read more Cars
The term FIRE means Financial Independence and Retire Early. I am going to tell you right away, don’t get to caught up in the RE of FIRE. Lots of people work part time jobs or side hustles after leaving their fulltime jobs. Some even get another fulltime job that pays less. Yes less, but it … Read more FIRE???