Accidental Fire

Accidental Fire Blog

financial independence / outdoors and health

November 13, 2018

Why Your Way Is The Best Way

As many of you know I am an outdoor sports fanatic and spend as much time as possible playing in nature. Whether it’s mountain biking, running, kayaking, paddle boarding, mountaineering, or just good ole hiking and camping, I love it...

financial independence

November 9, 2018

Do You Need Financial Help Or Lifestyle Help?

The personal finance blogosphere is chock full of goodness. There are tons of great posts and resources to help you get your financial life in order. And tons more to help you supercharge it and put yourself on the path...

psychology / side-hustle

November 6, 2018

How To Fight Imposter Syndrome

Something I often hear in the personal finance blogging community or the blogging community as a whole is the concept of imposter syndrome. Imposter Syndrome is: a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent...

info drawings

November 3, 2018

Active Fund Managers vs. Computers: Who’s Better At Managing Your Money?

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spending

November 2, 2018

Camelcamelcamel Site Review

Like many, I do quite a bit of my shopping on Amazon. It’s getting more difficult to ignore the juggernaut of online shopping as time goes on. They’re reliable, have virtually everything, and make shopping quick and easy. They also...

It Doesn’t Get Any Easier, You Just Get Better

life experience / outdoors and health

October 30, 2018

It Doesn’t Get Any Easier, You Just Get Better

My legs were screaming, my heart and lungs exploding out of my chest. I slowly passed a guy sitting on the pavement, surrendered. Another woman sat sobbing in the grass on the side of the road. The hill pitched up...

spending

October 23, 2018

How I Smartphone

We’re now accustomed to having a device on us at all times that’s amazingly small and that can access most of the entire corpus of human knowledge. Usually in a couple seconds. Sometimes it still blows my mind when I...

geography and geoarbitrage

October 19, 2018

U.S. Median Income Map Animation From 1985 – 2017

My geography based income reports are some of the more popular posts on my blog. People tend to identify with place, and let’s face it, maps are just plain cool. They reveal patterns and things unseen. Especially when they’re showing...

work

October 16, 2018

Why Middle Management Sucks

About 11 years into my current job I became a supervisor. It just happened, sometimes you have to step up to fill a void. I had been front-loading my career for a while, meaning simply working my butt off. I...

info drawings

October 13, 2018

Boo-yah Achieved, Spending Versus Saving

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investing

October 12, 2018

Emotions Have No Place In Your Investment Strategy

Chances are when someone smiles at you you will smile back. Even when you’re having a crappy day. Emotions and their expression are contagious. It’s human nature. According to this article from Psychology Today: Happiness extended up to three degrees...

life experience

October 9, 2018

Poverty, Bubbles, And The Line

I sat there in the passenger seat of my buddy Don’s car. He was in the drivers seat but we weren’t going anywhere. We just sat, drunk off our asses in the parking lot of a strip club in Baltimore. ...