Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following By Helaine Olen October 4, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT8 min When I told Vicki Robin I wanted to visit her at her home on Whidbey Island, in Puget Sound just north of Seattle, she told me it...
Is F.I., S.I. - Socially Intelligent? Against the backdrop of the fire and rage in Minneapolis following the police murder of George Floyd, reminiscent of police beating of Rodney King in LA in 1991, nearly 30 years ago, with many black deaths in between, what could...
An open letter to the FIRE community, Hello FIers everywhere – and all who’ve followed my work for years in some way or another. I'm writing to celebrate you and the 2 years we've had together. How amazing to find the FIRE (financial independence retire early) sub-culture in...
A prominent spokesperson for F.I.R.E. "confessed" a strange phenomenon in his journey to having a million dollars in his investment account. He hit his "number" and now visits it in his online account and feels ...
Less than 2 days since publication of this post I see from comments that I have some explaining to do. I used the 4% SWR rule of thumb to set up a larger point about the RE of FIRE - early retirement. I am not...
The holidays. Who can get through them unscathed by consumerism? Let's see if we can lower the temperature and increase the financial transformation for the #budgetblowout called varyingly Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza and "urgent special deals today only". The post has two parts...
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Laura Oldanie, a member of the Your Money or Your Life community, wants to marry FI and the 3Ps (people planet profit as the bottom line for a sustainability business) into a 3PFI lifestyle. In this article written especially for us, Laura describes the choices...
This story happened over a decade ago, but it's lessons transformed my life and redirected how I spend my most precious resource: my time. I was playing a simulation game with a dozen other people and here's what happened. An FI Game I can't find the instructions...
Your Identity Closet: What shall you wear now that you are free? In high school all three sororities asked me to join – three different flavors of girls to giggle and gossip with. I must have joined one because my actual memory isn’t of joining. It’s...