I saw an article about the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement on the first page of my financial news today. While it wasn’t anything new, I was surprised at how it stuck to the facts and avoided the typical: These people somehow don’t spend all of their money on things, isn’t that weird? It …
If you follow my strategy I guarantee you will get back more money from slot machines than you put in. You should also keep in mind it’s all for fun. When you are gambling you should never expect to win big bucks and this will likely not even get you to break minimum wage for …
If you’d like to stay at a nice hotel without breaking the bank, a good option is to use Priceline or Hotwire. Both sites offer opportunities to book a hotel room for below market rate. However, the condition is that you will not know the name of the hotel until after you book. They do …
The secret to retiring extremely early is not to amass X amount of dollars so you can gradually withdraw it at Y percent like many other guides suggest. What you need to do is have layers of contingency plans like an onion securing your core desire of never having a job again. I say this …
Monetizing your own websites is a great way to ease into early retirement. It’s also so difficult to make significantly profitable sites that the vast majority of people will fail to ever recover their minimal hosting costs. At the time I’m writing this article, I have already posted a dozen lengthy articles on my new …
America’s healthcare system is, to put it simply, a mess. I’m someone without a “real” job so I depend on the affordable care act, Obamacare, in order to get coverage. Now there are good things about Obamacare and it’s definitely an improvement. However, it still shows how far America is from the decent healthcare system …
A smart investing strategy can be summed up in one sentence: Invest in a broad market ETF with a low expense ratio and then forget about it. Yet There are billions and billions of dollars spent on an industry to guide people into making the “right” financial decisions. There are a few reasons I believe …
I’ve been Financially Independent for over 2 years now. I remember my journey from when I graduated college with no money and no job up to the point where I realized I could keep living my life exactly the same without needing to go to work. Upon reflection I see that it was inevitable I …