Financial Independence Losses
Financial Independence Losses We love to talk about what we have gained with financial independence. The list is oft recounted on blog after blog. Some have suggested that we even have gained time, though...
Category: Emotional Construct
Money Can’t Buy Health
Money Can’t Buy Health She was prim and proper. The once baron room was filled with art work and photographs. Pictures and memories. You could barely tell that she was in essence living in...
Back of the Napkin
Back of the Napkin There is no question that I live in a world of numbers. I am constantly making calculations in my head throughout the day. Whether it is how many miles my...
Money Goal or a Rabbit Hole?
Money Goal or a Rabbit Hole? There is no question that I sometimes eschew some basic personal finance principles. I generally feel that we are kidding ourselves with the safe withdrawal rate nonsense. And...
My Financial Independence Legacy
My Financial Independence Legacy I am a product of those who came before me. I am second generation FI. My peculiar way of looking at finances, and my path to financial freedom have grown...
Falling Off the Time Money Continuum
Falling Off the Time Money Continuum Money is time. Time is money. Phrases oft said in the financial independence community and in my opinion(as of late) pure horse pucky. We have somehow mangled the...
Home Is My Best Investment
Home Is My Best Investment Saturday mornings I slip silently out of bed in the early hours and creep through the hallway past the kid’s bedrooms, down the stairs. The house, much like it’s...
The Overmonetized Life
The Overmonetized Life The best financial plans have at least four legs. Four revenue streams that help prop up the table of your personal finances. We all know that I believe that side hustles...
When Enough Isn’t Enough
When Enough Isn’t Enough I never had enough. Connor vaguely heard the words as they spilled out of his grandfather, the patriarch’s mouth, and formed a forgotten puddle on the unforgiving linoleum. He sighed...
Financial Independence is a Mirror
Financial Independence is a Mirror Financial independence is a mirror, it’s not a door. You may deny the voracity of this statement. You may try to convince yourself otherwise. But bursting through the threshold...
