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...
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...
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...
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2025 Activity Tracker
Cycling: 482 Miles
Running: 76 Miles
Hiking: 18 Miles
Paddling: 0 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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