What I Spent In 2022
Happy New Year – 2022 is in the books and it’s time for my annual spending post. I’ve never budgeted in my life, so when I did my first spending post for the year 2020 it was almost entirely done...
Author: Dave @ Accidental FIRE
T.G.I.F. Friday: Volume 85
Welcome to “Thank God I’m FI” Friday, Volume #85! Here are some things I really like and that you might too. Financial Independence/Retirement Articles Keeping Life On Track (Playtirement) – “It isn’t even a question to ponder. If you...
My Creations In The Wild, Enabled By Financial Independence
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...
T.G.I.F. Friday: Volume 84
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)...
Price Changes Over Time, Some Things Have Become Ridiculously Cheap
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...
Retirement In America: Comparison Is The Thief Of Joy? Not In This Case
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...
T.G.I.F. Friday: Volume 83
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...
Is Interest In Financial Independence And FIRE A Bull Market Phenomenon?
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...
Early Retirement And The Wannabe Optimist
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...
T.G.I.F. Friday: Volume 82
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...
How To Eat Well As A Starving Artist
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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