The Blinking Cursor Of Your Youth
Take yourself back to the age of 8 or 9. If you’re like most, life and the world were wide open. Everything was awesome, and meant to be explored. You didn’t know what was behind that tree in the woods,...
Accidental Fire Blog
FIRE and the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Today I’m thrilled to have a guest post from Michael Dinich. Michael is a professional financial advisor and the founder of Your Money Geek. He often writes about Finance, Taxes, Politics, Renewable Energy and Geek Culture. He provides clients with...
Do You Have A Resilience Fund?
One of the core tenants of good personal finance is having an emergency fund. Basically an emergency fund is an account set aside to deal with unexpected expenses. It’s generally recommended that you keep an emergency fund in a very...
Renting Vs. Buying: The Math Behind The Decision
Surprise folks, I have an unexpected post today, but it’s not here. Please check out my guest post on Michael Dinich’s blog. Michael is the founder of Your Money Geek and a professional financial advisor. I encourage you to follow...
Sunken Costs And Stubbornness
We had just partied like it was 1999. I was coming up on 3 years into my investing career, and even though I mostly had mutual funds, I still liked the idea of researching and picking a winning stock. Having...
The Cost Of Car Ownership By State
If you’ve spent time on my blog you probably know I’m not the biggest fan of driving and America’s obsession with cars. There’s the 40,000 deaths it causes every year (more than 100 every day…). There’s the smog and carbon...
My Health Insurance Company Wants Me To Be Unhealthy
It was New Year’s Eve 2016, and I had 394 running miles for the year. I’ve always been a little bit of a numbers guy, so it bugged me that I might end the year that close to 400 and...
Choose Courage, Get Uncomfortable
“Turtles are slow.” I was staring at the sentence in fear. I tried to read it out loud but just couldn’t get the first word out. Sweat started forming on my forehead and I started to panic. “Just start reading...
For Better Work-Life Balance, Work More
You heard it right. I like Lifehacker, they usually put out good content that’s helpful in many aspects of life but they’re definitely not immune to the absurd and outrageous. A few weeks ago they ran this hilarious post that...
The Geography Of Debt In America
A while back I did a guest post on Millennial Money Man about the Geography of Student Loan Debt in America. Well this post is about the geography of overall debt in America. The Urban Institute used 2016 data derived from...
The Healing Powers Of Free Time
I went part time at my job in October 2017 after exceeding my target financial independence net worth. I wrote about my initial experience with my new freedom last November, but it’s my intention to keep doing updates as the journey...
Three Ways To Approach A Mindful Simple Life With Less
Happy Monday folks, this is a short post to announce that I have a guest post today on Mindful Explorer @ ChrisIstace.com! Well, I have one-third of a guest post. The coolest part is the post is actually a joint...
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