FI for the People

I wrote on this blog earlier this year that I had the opportunity to talk personal finance and FIRE with a college student who seems receptive to the knowledge. Because if I know anything, it’s that college students live to talk personal finance. It’s been fun.  I now have a second student (let’s call him…

I recently went to an FI meetup and, as per usual at these events in my experience, I met some fantastic folks. Smart, thoughtful, focused people. Also, contrarians, who both come up with and execute on great ideas and who are open minded enough to recognize and adopt others’ fantastic ideas.  Happy day One attendee…

I recently read the (as of this writing) latest post on the Bitches Get Riches blog. First, some background. The blog is authored by two bitches (their words, not mine) hilarious and terrific writers whose noms de plume are Kitty and Piggy. Kitty announced last year that she soon would FIRE. She was then 35….

I discovered FIRE in 2016 by way of an article in The New Yorker. The article was sort of a back-handed compliment to Pete, the blogger behind the Mr. Money Mustache (MMM) blog. But it sort of mocked him specifically, and the idea of FIRE more broadly. The author’s intent seems to have been to…

Regular readers of this blog (of which there surely are only one or two, and quite understandably so given that this blog is total balderdash) will know that I was many years into my professional life before I began making what I considered a healthy salary. To be precise, I was in my mid-30s by…

As I covered in excruciating detail in my “Money, Man” series of posts, ever since I was a wee lad, I’ve had a scarcity mindset. I admit that with neither shame nor pride. It’s just a matter of fact.  On the plus side, that’s meant that I’m capable of being pretty ruthless with my finances…

Dear Reader, your humble blogger here has long been hard to impress or surprise. He’s seen his fair share of great things . . . and goofiness. Experienced a decent amount in his many, many, . . . many years on this blue marble we call Earth. And developed a rather expansive view of humanity…

As I mentioned in my last post, I took a low- to no-stress part-time job earlier this year. It doesn’t pay baller money. But, then, that wasn’t really my objective. Rather, the intent was to earn a little money so that I could kick down the road the can that is my needing to withdraw…

Hello, Dear Reader! For the 1s legions of you who read my last post, you’d have had good reason to believe that, at long last, my Money Man series of posts had finally come to an end.  Well, as it turns out, it ain’t necessarily so. I’ve decided to put a tombstone capstone on the…

Welcome, Dear Reader, to . . . wwwaaait for it . . . THE LAST post in my series on how my job experiences and my relationship with money brought me to wanting to FIRE. Wow. Twelve (or should I say, XII) posts! Three months of rambling installments!  If you’ve read all of the posts…