Occasionally, when I reveal our early retirement game plan to a friend or family member, someone will ask me if I’m afraid I’ll be bored in early retirement. In actuality, I anticipate being much more busy! Here are my top ten early retirement activities.
As I write this post, the US stock market has shed 10% of its value over the past five days. The Chinese markets just opened for the day, and promptly fell another 8.5%. Let me tell you why this is the best day on the market in years.
It’s not easy to explain that you want to retire early. It’s even more difficult to explain how. I’m trying an experiment with infographics to see if I can cover a few of the common questions people have when they’re trying to decide whether retiring early is possible.
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Paris, July 9th, 8:34 AM Who told you? That’s the thought running through my mind as the Métro Line 1 barrels towards La Défense. It’s about 95 degrees underground. Humid. Western Europe is melting in an inferno of a heat wave. The…
Travel Hacking. That’s the term for how we travel for next to nothing. Near-zero is really the only budget we can afford while we pursue early retirement, so it’s incredibly fortunate that it’s possible to trade time spent researching for a chance to travel…
Can a 20 year old invest for the future, even without a regular paycheck, a 401(k), and with only a tiny amount to begin? Yes, Absolutely! Recently, a young member of my family gave me the following set of goals…
If there is one habit which I believe contributes to my ability to save as much as I do, more than any of the others I have developed in the past few years, it’s tracking my expenses on a daily basis.
An investment policy statement is a short document with a simple purpose: to give the individual investor a blueprint for their long-term investing that is tailored to their risk tolerance. To the beginning investor, the market can seem terrifying and…
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