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Introduction: This draft has been pending since 2018 when I first started blogging. It’s the last installment of the series. Please enjoy! Michelle is killing it! She is my official blog shero! She made early retirement her minion and just conquers the blogging world in her spare time. Financial savviness is her superpower and her …
I have been enjoying reading A Purple Life’s journey and thought she’d serve as a good metric in the frugal FIRE since there are not many published single girl budgets out there. While so entitled, this is not actually a war. I just like data! After my end of year financial update, I thought I …
Feb 8, 2019 Dear Future Self, You made it through another work week, and I would say you didn’t feel like quitting your job the whole week, just some of the week. Praise the Lord! There were quite a bit of tears this week (and last). The Interim Position. I didn’t get the interim position. …
Hey there My Early Retirement Journey Readers, I hit a personal finance writing milestone. Earlier this month my post How My Income Skyrocketed and Net Worth Plummeted with My Education was featured on Rockstar Finance. Woot! Hitting that milestone in my first year gave me the confidence to enter that very post in this year’s Rockstar …
In my constant search to get out of the workplace, I am always wondering how long do I really need the money to last? How long do I really need to live? A few weeks ago, in one such mental upheaval, I read The Atlantic’s “Why I Hope to Die at 75“. In this piece, …
It’s Saturday night with the single girl! Welcome. I, too, am having another night in. No yummy snacks this time and nothing I’m too jazzed to see on television. I’m a bit television-ed out. Blasphemous I know. I really want to go outdoors but I don’t know what exactly to do. So, my two readers, …
So while digging around to get my tax information together for this year, I stumbled upon a payroll feature that shows all our payroll data. Since I started tracking my income, expenses, and savings this year, I can’t help but notice trends. Some of the numbers were surprising, so I spent a little more time …
Dear Future Me, The pressure of not posting anything in January is keeping me up at night. So I decided to at least crank out five sentences while I determine what the heck I want to do with this blog and my life in general. Work. Work this week was pretty chill. It ended Friday …
While I boldly published my intent to Sabbatical in 2020, I’ve had many more iterations of life-outside-of-the-workforce since then. Lately I’ve been giving the Spanish teaching program more thought. If you’re not familiar with it, check out this post. After a less than ideal day at work, I have now convinced myself this is a …
With the end of year comes many opportunities for reflection. Today I’m looking back at my first year of My Early Retirement Journey – both virtually and in real life. It’s the first year I tracked my income and expenses. It’s the first year I maxed out my 401k. It’s the first year I invested …
