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Published November 28, 2016 at 1000 × 817 in What If We Retired Today? // Almost Year-End Progress Check-In

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Yesterday I signed lots of lots of books that you can get in-person or online at @bespoketruckee @ateliertruckee. (A perfect spot if you want to do some #smallbusinesssaturday shopping at a 100% ethical, woman-owned shop.)

New today on the blog: Is it ethical to invest in cryptocurrency? Link in stories. #walletactivism #financialethics #crypto [image: blog header with headline matching this caption]

Here is something I’m super proud of: with my first book, Work Optional, more than 90% of its sales came from Am*zon. But this time around, with Wallet Activism, only about a quarter of sales so far are from all big retailers combined! Thanks to all of you who have bought the book, and extra thanks to those who bought it from an independent bookstore. That act itself is Wallet Activism, because you are directly funding and creating demand for things that you want to see stick around or even see more of. Let’s keep the momentum going! Grab Wallet Activism from your local independent bookstore today. 💜 #walletactivism [image: A circle chart showing about half of the sales from small independent bookstores, about a quarter from Bookshop.org, and a quarter from the big online retailers.]

Good morning from San Francisco! Wallet Activism officially exists! Huge thanks to everyone who pre-ordered. It’s now in bookstores everywhere, and I can’t wait to see it in your hands. Send me all your favorite passages and the things that speak to you most. And join me tonight if you can, in person at Green Apple Books on the Park (@booksonthepark) in San Francisco or virtually, and I’ll read you those flagged passages. 😉 Also! Everyone who buys the book any time this week gets an invite to the virtual launch party on Saturday where I will answer all your questions. Just send your receipt to walletactivism@gmail.com. I can’t wait to hear what you think! 💜🥳🥂 #walletactivism #bookstagram #author #authorsofinstagram #bookbirthday #pubday

New today by me: How to fund your retirement ethically, on @marketwatch. Link in stories! [image: story headline on MarketWatch site]

Today’s garden project: creating two new mushroom beds. I am obsessed with mushrooms, but they tend to come heavily packaged, and the fancy kinds are expensive. Solution: grow my own. I got tons of wine cap mushrooms this year that I “planted” last fall, and some blue oysters from a mushroom kit that I buried. So today I added a snow oyster mushroom bed and a blewit mushroom bed, which is the one shown in these pictures. Growing mushrooms feels like magic, and if you buy spawn of a variety that can grow in a garden bed and will thrive in your climate, it is a 100% maintenance-free and perennial project, and there is nothing better than maintenance-free magic. If you have even the tiniest little patch of dirt available, you can have your own little fairy garden. 🍄 [images: package of oyster mushroom spawn and two photos of the mushroom bed, which just looks like some dirt inside of a chicken wire frame.] #growyourownfood #growyourown #growmushroomsathome #mushrooms #gardening #highaltitudegardening #desertgardening

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