In my last post I fessed up to some of my bigger financial mistakes. Painful, all. Some more than others. Happily, the ship eventually was righted. And, later, motorized. FIRE appealed to me not just because of the concept in and of itself. Although that certainly was a major factor. But also, because it’s a…
Bad Mistakes, I’ve Made a Few
If you know anything about me, you know that I’m face-scrunchingly flawed perfect. What with my cringeworthy devilishly good looks, flabby muscular physique, fast rotting razor-sharp brain, and uncanny inability to see the forest for the trees and size things up accurately and comprehensively. So, it may come as a surprise to you, Dear Reader,…
Mission Control
A while back, I scribbled some of my thoughts opined on how knowledge economy/white collar jobs can be harder on people than physical labor/blue collar jobs. And thus, how FIRE might be a goal even more appealing for people in the former group than in the latter. Today, I’mma scribble some more thoughts about opine…
Regime Change
Dear Reader, I’ve bored regaled you with many, many a few stories on this here blog about how I’m . . . not so bright. Of course, there’s other stuff that makes me me, too. For example, I have a staggeringly awful sense of direction. And a head-scratchingly intense interest in weather. And let’s just…
Drive Time
Once upon a time, I worked. Full time even. I worked pretty hard, too. I taxed my brain. I worked after traditional hours on weekdays. I sometimes worked on weekends, too. And, because I’m an idiot, I had years in which I didn’t take all the days off to which I was entitled. Most of…
Bougie Woogie
There’s a few things that can be said of me that would quite rightly elicit a “Yep. That’s about right” response. Like that I’m staggeringly dim-witted. And that I’m highly impatient. And that I’m cheap frugal. But another, I think, is that I’m pretty low-maintenance. Especially for someone my age and in relation to almost…
Compare and Contrast
I ended my last post—about the second-best money I ever spent—with a reference to the best money I ever spent: that being what I spent to hoodwink woo and marry The Missus. I didn’t explain why that was the best money I ever spent tho. Welp, time to do that now, Dear Reader. Let me…
The Second Best Money I Ever Spent
The U.S. stock market was in a record-long bull run at the close of 2021. Despite some wavering in the fourth quarter of 2021, it mostly still was chugging along. Then I FIRE’d at the end of the year. . . . And apparently ruined everything by doing so. Sorry, fellow investors! Da’ bears See,…
Clear and Present
I FIRE’d for lotsa reasons. Most are the same as those for many others in the FIRE community. To not have to work (for someone else). To have control of my schedule. To be able to focus on leisure and health as much as I wanna. And so on. No one reason seemed particularly more…
Environmentalism on FIRE
People confuse me. Americans confuse me. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’m confused. Easily confused. Why am I bringing this up you ask, Dear Reader? Well, because I’ve long thought about how FIRE and lowering one’s carbon footprint go (or at least can or should go) hand in hand. That’s because…
