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...
Regular Accidental FIRE readers are aware of my history as a functional alcoholic. I used alcohol as a way to escape my traumatic childhood, or at least that’s what I thought I was doing. Being drunk was a good place...
In 2020 when covid took off it launched an unprecedented bike boom. Millions of people who hadn’t ridden a bike since they were a kid looked to get one, or pulled their long forgotten old clunker out of the garage...
Welcome to “Thank God I’m FI” Friday, Volume #80! Here are some things I really like and that you might too. Financial Independence/Retirement Articles What Does Success Look Like and How Does It Feel? (One Frugal Girl) – “If...
Regular readers know I’m a map geek and always on the hunt for cool new map-based tools that help with any aspect of our financial lives. I have a geoarbitrage resources page that highlights tons of such tools, and today...
Would you take financial advice from a member of Pink Floyd? Well, maybe not direct financial advice, but how about sage advice that directly affects how you think about money? Recently I was watching a documentary about the Pink Floyd...
Welcome to “Thank God I’m FI” Friday, Volume #79! Here are some things I really like and that you might too. Financial Independence/Retirement Articles It’s Happening! I’m Retiring At Age 29 With $650,000 (Financial Mechanic) – “Personally, I watched...
Last week I did a short post showing the official median household income data for 2021 as a whole and by state. I started doing posts like that in 2017, and since inflation is the topic on everyone’s mind I...
I did a median household income post the first three years of this blog. But last year the Census Bureau had massive delays in publishing the 2020 data so I didn’t do a post when they eventually released it. Plus,...
Welcome to “Thank God I’m FI” Friday, Volume #78! Here are some things I really like and that you might too. Financial Independence/Retirement Articles Is Geo-Arbitrage A Financial Fairy Tale? (Mr. Tako Escapes) – “For anyone considering a geo-arbitrage...
I wrote about the Great Resignation last year, it’s been a popular topic especially in personal finance circles. That post focused on the amount of new businesses being created while record numbers of “quits” were simultaneously recorded. Resignations, or ‘quits’,...
I did a nice beach road trip recently to some of the Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia beaches. In my usual fashion of being active I packed the trip with cycling, running, kayaking, standup paddleboarding, a horrible attempt at traditional surfing,...
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2025 Activity Tracker
Cycling: 2045 Miles
Running: 175 Miles
Hiking: 18 Miles
Paddling: 18 Miles
Climbing Days: 1
2024 Activity Tracker
Cycling: 5209 Miles
Running: 330 Miles
Hiking: 46 Miles
Paddling: 86 Miles
Climbing Days: 1
2023 Activity Tracker
Cycling: 5400 Miles
Running: 472 Miles
Hiking: 37 Miles
Paddling: 96 Miles
Climbing Days: 6
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