Author: Dave @ Accidental FIRE
Last year while on a bike ride something really cool stopped me in my tracks. I passed a parked car with a bunch of outdoor sports-type stickers on it’s back window and one of them was my design – out...
Welcome to “Thank God I’m FI” Friday, Volume #84! Here are some things I really like and that you might too. Financial Independence/Retirement Articles A Post-Mortem for a Crypto Exchange: Is FTX worse than Bernie Madoff? (Early Retirement Now)...
I’m going to be taking it a bit easy on the blog this holiday season but I still plan to post most weeks. Today I wanted to do a short post on an interesting graphic I stumbled across. I found...
You’ve heard the term “comparison is the thief of joy”. I think it’s generally true in many aspects of life, but not always. As I mention in that post, comparing yourself to your younger self as you continue to get...
Welcome to “Thank God I’m FI” Friday, Volume #83! Here are some things I really like and that you might too. Financial Independence/Retirement Articles Proof Of Work (Of Dollars And Data) – “People will continue to believe that there...
As of this post the S&P is down about 17% in 2022. Bonds are a usual hedge to equity declines, but owning them as a means of diversification hasn’t helped this year. Bonds are down around 14% in 2022 as...
My father died from cancer when I was only 18. Soon after that my grandma from my mothers side developed Alzheimer’s disease and rapidly decayed both mentally and physically. After 4 years of a miserable low income nursing home in...
Welcome to “Thank God I’m FI” Friday, Volume #82! Here are some things I really like and that you might too. Financial Independence/Retirement Articles A man of no ambition (Get Rich Slowly) – “What I have today is already...
The starving artist is a concept that has old roots. The idea of pursuing a life making art and suffering the financial consequences has been romanticized in movies and popular culture. As a consumer of art my favorite art form...
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October marked 5 years of blissful semi-retirement for yours truly. Half of a decade! For those not familiar, I gave up my big-wig manager job and went down to 20 hours a week back in late 2017. I started my...
Welcome to “Thank God I’m FI” Friday, Volume #81! Here are some things I really like and that you might too. Financial Independence/Retirement Articles Are You Willing To Pay The Price? (Stop Ironing Shirts) – “It’s completely normal to...
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