Author: Dave @ Accidental FIRE
Big news today Accidental FIRE readers – I have a guest post on MillennialMoneyMan.com! Bobby Hoyt is the man behind that blog and if you’re not familiar with his story he went from a high school band director with $40,000 of...
My Grandmother, or “Nonnie” as we called her, was born the same year the Wright Brothers first achieved flight. She passed in 1994 at the ripe age of 91, and having experienced the 1900’s almost in their entirety, she saw...
SAN FRANCISCO – After reluctantly being dragged into “The Pavilion”, a local establishment that looked as boring on the outside as it’s name suggests, area foodie Brianna Davis emerged perplexed that her meal actually tasted good. “I feel weird saying...
Getting to financial independence is difficult, especially in a luxury-demanding, spendy culture. If you’re budgeting, living frugally, investing, and trying to increase your earnings, then you’re checking the major boxes and are on a path to FI. But are you...
With the absurd average transaction price of a new car in America at around $34,000, it’s important for you financial warriors to get the most out of a car if you want to get to financial independence. The good news...
Do you get a tax refund from the government every year? If so, why? You’re loaning them money, at no interest. Banks usually don’t loan you money at no interest, so why would you do it for the government? For...
WASHINGTON D.C. – In a statement released on Wednesday Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellin warned that irrational exuberance has been replaced with ill-informed stupidity. Hearkening to a term coined by former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan, Yellin said that “At least...
I started investing in mutual funds in 1997 as mentioned in my journey post. At the time, there were way fewer funds out there and I didn’t have enough initial deposit to open many of them. Fidelity’s Magellan Fund was...
“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” So true. According to Wikipedia the origins of the phrase are unknown, but has been found in references dating back to the 1930s. Wikipedia said it, so truth speaks. A little...
When you wander the streets of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, you can’t help but get a sore neck from all the gawking. It’s an ancient city that was a key stop on the Silk Road from China to the Middle East, and...
Area loser Chris Knittle was informed by online calculator FireCalc that he would be a loser in every possible time period in history. Knittle spent Saturday morning excitedly plugging his data into the online calculator, popular with the financial independence...
This post is about failure. Yes I know. That’s a topic that’s been written about quite often. J Money over at Budgets Are Sexy did a cool post a little while back listing out some major failures in his life...
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