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• April 2018 (7)
• March 2018 (8)
• February 2018 (6)
• January 2018 (9)
• December 2017 (4)
• November 2017 (8)
• October 2017 (8)
• September 2017 (7)
• August 2017 (9)
• July 2017 (8)
• June 2017 (8)
• May 2017 (10)
• April 2017 (8)
• March 2017 (9)
• February 2017 (8)
• January 2017 (9)
• December 2016 (5)
• November 2016 (8)
• October 2016 (9)
• September 2016 (8)
• August 2016 (10)
• July 2016 (8)
• June 2016 (9)
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• March 2016 (10)
• February 2016 (10)
• January 2016 (9)
• December 2015 (9)
• November 2015 (9)
• October 2015 (10)
• September 2015 (10)
• August 2015 (12)
• July 2015 (11)
• June 2015 (12)
• May 2015 (9)
• April 2015 (8)
• March 2015 (10)
• February 2015 (11)
• January 2015 (1)

Archive of every post

(Newest at the top, oldest at the bottom)

• How to Be an Ethical Reader // The Economics of Books and Libraries
• What You Can Do About Guns When Leaders Fail Us // How Divestment Can Drive Change
• Seven New Year’s Resolutions that Benefit the Planet and Other People – and Your Wallet, Too
• Is It Ethical to Invest in Cryptocurrency?
• Supply Chain Issues Provide the Perfect Excuse to Change Your Holiday Gift-Giving
• EVENTS // Wallet Activism IRL and Virtual Book Tour
• We Think About Risk All Wrong // How Riding a Bike Almost Ruined Everything
• Introducing Wallet Activism, a New Book and Podcast
• It’s Time to Retire FIRE (and to Split It Up)
• The Value of a Long Break
• Retire Early Without Harming Others // A Hard Look at FIRE and Racial Inequality
• How the Personal Finance Sphere Upholds Systemic Racism
• Recession, Coronavirus and the Future of FIRE
• Doing the Thing That Scares You
• Two Years of Early Retirement // Impact, Lessons and Future Changes
• New Life Rhythms, A Delayed Reckoning and Being Okay with Blogging Less
• Don’t Let Life Get Too Easy in Early Retirement
• Decide For Yourself What Spending You Value, and Then Spend Without Guilt
• Separating Work and Money, and the Gift of Your True Motivations
• The Transition to Retirement: Knowing Yourself and Getting to Know Yourself (by Mark!)
• The 4% Rule Is Not Your Friend
• Don’t Let Life Pass You By While Saving for the Future
• What Reactions to the FIRE Movement Tell Us About Our Messed Up Relationship With Work
• Structure Your Life to Avoid Overspending
• My Childhood in a Multilevel Marketing Scam
• Hard Lessons On the Difference Between Price and Quality
• Stop and Spot the Space Invaders // Slowing Down on the Journey
• You Might Be Underbudgeting for Early Retirement
• Behind the Scenes of WORK OPTIONAL: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way, Now Available Everywhere
• Learning Not to Let the Markets Affect You
• Free and Cheap Ways to Give Back in Early Retirement
• One Year of Early Retirement, Part 3: What We’re Changing
• One Year of Early Retirement, Part 2: The Adventures
• One Year of Early Retirement, Part 1: Biggest Lessons
• The Downsides of Off-Peak Travel
• Ambition Doesn’t (Have to) End at Retirement
• There Is No Financial “Truth” (But Why That’s a Good Thing)
• Early Retirement Health Care Costs for 2019 and Beyond
• Don’t Just Travel Off-Peak, Be Opportunistic on Location
• WORK OPTIONAL: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way
• Building Climate Change Into Your Early Retirement Plans
• Don’t Immediately Dismiss Early Retirement Naysayers
• The Importance of “Chapter Overlap” // Boredom in Early Retirement, Part 2
• Even in Early Retirement, You Have to Make Time // Q&A with John Zeratsky + Book Giveaway
• The Most Important Early Retirement Indicator // Boredom in Early Retirement, Part 1
• The False, Persistent Myth About FIRE and Tech Bros
• What Everyone Should Know About Early Retirement // An ONL Clip Show
• Adapting to New Baselines in Early Retirement
• A Million Mile Flyer’s Tips for Carry-On Travel, Including For Business (Part 2)
• A Million Mile Flyer’s Tips for Maximum Efficiency Travel (Part 1)
• Science Confirms Why a Low-Information Diet Is Bad for You
• How to Blog Anonymously Like a Secret Agent
• Let the Feelings of Future You Be Your Guide
• Saving for Retirement… In Retirement
• The Power of a Complaint Ban
• My Other Motivation for Retiring Early // What Many Get Wrong About Those Who Can’t Work
• Accounting for Aging Parents in Your Early Retirement Plans
• Early Retirement Year 1: Six-Month Check-In
• Big City Vs. Small Town // Which Is Better for Saving for Early Retirement?
• The Problem with the HSA (Health Savings Account) Isn’t the HSA
• Our Roth Regrets // The Roth IRA Strategy We Wish We’d Built
• What Early Retirement Has and Hasn’t “Fixed”
• Thoughts On Early Retirement and Post-FIRE Life From the Non-Blogging Partner // Q&A With Mark, Part 1
• Don’t Let the Impossibility of Achieving Perfection Hold You Back
• When Early Retirement Makes Your Dreams Possible // I’m Writing a Book!
• Why I’m Glad I Didn’t Retire Even Earlier
• In a Couple? Aim for Real Financial Independence, Not Financial Dependence
• Getting Through the Middle Saving Years Slog
• When An Expensive Mistake Is Really the Nudge You Need To Be Free
• Hustling Hard for New Friends in Early Retirement
• What We’d Do Differently If We Were Just Starting to Save Now
• The Social Good of Quitting Your Job
• Relearning How to Live Slowly
• Using Gamification to Boost Your Progress to Financial Independence
• Retirement Needs a Rebrand
• What FIRE Bloggers Owe Readers // A Blogging Manifesto
• Consider a Side Hustle Year to Begin Early Retirement
• Don’t Get Discouraged by Slow Initial Progress // A Blast from My Financial Past
• What Does It REALLY Take to Retire Early?
• The Benefits of Building a Frugal (Real Life) Community
• Defining Simple Living for Yourself
• Aligning Your Spending with Your Values Vs. What You Value
• Death and Divorce and Unhappiness, Oh My! Might Early Retirement Actually Be Bad for Us?!
• Who Left These Kids In Charge?! // Adapting to Life With No Structure
• Retiring Early in the Face of Fear
• Protect Your Early Retirement From Sequence of Returns Risk
• The Malleability of Time and the Saturday-Monday Switcheroo
• Why We Don’t Buy Bitcoin or Any Cryptocurrency — And You Shouldn’t Either
• Early Retirement Is a Trip Back in Time
• How NOT to Begin An Early Retirement… Or Maybe Exactly How To
• What We’d Do Differently If We Had Kids
• Our “High School Rule” for Work in Early Retirement
• The Nothing New Year Redux
• A Love Letter to the Atypical, Unfrugal Early Retirees
• Signing Up for ACA/Obamacare Health Insurance for Early Retirement
• The Best Way to Begin Early Retirement? Super Frugal Vs. “Normal” Spending
• The Full Financial Breakdown at Early Retirement
• We Retired Early! // Our Next Life Begins
• The Last Monday // On Feeling Grateful — And Ready
• The Thrill of the New and the Peril of Too Much Yes // Setting New Boundaries in Early Retirement
• The Home Stretch To Do List (and the Surprisingly Strong Urge to Acquire)
• What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? That’s What Financial Independence Is All About
• Being This Close to Early Retirement Doesn’t Feel How I Thought It Would
• What’s Your “Selectively Hardcore”? The Non-Financial Benefits of Strict, Strategic Frugality
• Allowance 2.0 in Early Retirement // Systems for Financial Success and Peace of Mind
• Our Early Retirement Charitable Mission and Donor Advised Funds
• How Teaching Yoga Is Like Multilevel Marketing // My Longest, Least Lucrative Side Hustle
• Don’t Write Off High-Cost States for Early Retirement // Why We’ll Never Leave California
• The Power of Community, at #FinCon17 — and Everywhere Else
• Hiya! (Again) // It’s Reveal Time!
• A Reminder That What We’re All Doing Is Still Unfathomable to Most People
• How We’ll Live Beyond Our Budget in Early Retirement
• The End of the Double Life and the Weight of the Lie // Giving Notice at Work
• Why We Aren’t Banking on Social Security for Our Retirement — But Why You Might
• The Fundamental Problem with the 4% Rule for Early Retirement Isn’t the 4% Rule
• The Final Approach // 2017 Q3 Financial Update
• The Income Streams Our Early Retirement Is (Now) Built On
• Embracing Both DIY and the Suboptimal // PLUS The Pre-Reveal Contest!
• Financial Independence, Fight Club and the Mindless Consumer Zombie Narrative
• Stepping Off the Map // There’s No Guidebook for the Emotions of Early Retirement
• What If Everyone Wanted to Retire Early? A Thought Exercise on Market Valuations
• The Final Early Retirement To Do List // What Are We Forgetting?
• $100 to Spend, or a Day of Retirement? Think in Days, Not Dollars, to Speed Your Progress
• The Three-Part Formula to Achieve Any Huge Goal, Even When Advice Doesn’t Fit
• How to Make Saving for Early Retirement Not Feel Like a Sacrifice
• How We Calculated Our “Enough” Number for Early Retirement
• How to Use Your FI Freedom to Agitate for Others at Work
• Don’t Forget About Your Later Years // Planning for Early AND Traditional Retirement
• Countering Magical Thinking About Early Retirement and Financial Independence
• The Tiny Truths That Completely Changed How We Money
• The Survey Results Are In! All About Our Next Life (and FIRE Blog) Readers
• The Dose Makes the Poison // Radical Moderation in Frugality, Saving and Spending
• Why We Won’t Negotiate a Layoff or Severance When We Retire Early — But Why You Might
• The Most Important Ingredient in the Pursuit of Financial Independence
• The Last 100 Days // On Finally Processing Reality, and the Unexpected Feelings
• What We Know — and Still Don’t Know — About Early Retirement Health Care
• What We’ve Learned From Living Where Everyone Else Is On Vacation
• Our Changing Definition of Early Retirement and the Power of the Freedom to Fail
• Why We Resist Convenience Services and Technologies (and It Has Nothing to Do With Money)
• Magic Numbers, Padding and Panic // 2017 Q2 Financial Update
• Health Isn’t Something You Can Plug Into a Spreadsheet
• Does Your Exit Plan Have an Exit Plan? // What If You Change Your Mind?
• The Paradox of Growing Up So We Can Avoid Growing Up
• The Before and After Early Retirement To Do Lists
• Make Time for What’s Most Important — Before AND After Retirement
• Is It a Win or Fail to Die With Money? “You Can’t Take It With You” Vs. Leaving a Legacy
• Why “Saving Money” Usually Means Spending Money, and the Mindset We Foster Instead
• More Than a Prenup, You Need a Pre-FIRE Agreement
• Think Health Care, Not Just Taxes and Weather, When Deciding Where to Retire
• Breaking Our Own Rules // On Sprinting to the Early Retirement Finish Line
• Are Some People Predisposed to Embrace the FI Mindset?
• Minimizing Early Withdrawals in Early Retirement // Hang On to As Much As You Can for Later
• There’s No Such Thing As a Risk-Free Life
• The No-Income Work Experiment // Testing Our Commitment to the Principle
• The Case for Conservative Early Retirement Investment Projections
• You Can Love Your Job and Still Want to Retire Early
• Why “Financial Freedom” Means Something Different to Me
• Write Your Financial Independence Mission Statement
• What Is “Work”? // Creating Our Own Definitions and More for the Retirement Police
• What Has Surprised Us Most about Pursuing Financial Independence
• Does Anyone Who Is Seriously Awesome at Their Job Retire Early?
• When Friends or Family Don’t Support Your Early Retirement Dreams
• Self Worth, Validation and Gold Stars in My Post-Career Life
• What If Work Wants to Keep Us? // Anticipating the Hard Sell
• Making Sure Our Retirement Is a Long and Healthy One // Planning for Longevity
• Countdowns and Disbelief // 2017 Q1 Financial Update
• A Thought Experiment for the Retirement Police // Where’s the Line on Retirement?
• Don’t Listen to Us // Blogs Don’t Tell the Full FI Story
• The Importance of Pacing Yourself on the Road to Financial Independence
• Creating a Tangible Separation from Work When We Retire
• Replicate What You’re Great At in Early Retirement
• Staring Into the Early Retirement Health Care Abyss
• Pressure Test Your Financial Plan with the Five What Ifs
• The Simple Math of Lifestyle Stagnation, the Biggest Secret of Our Success
• To Travel Long or Travel Short? // The Start of Real Retirement Planning
• Our Full Financial Plan and Philosophy // + the Mad Fientist Podcast
• Don’t Stop at One Audacious Goal // After FI, What’s Your Next One?
• It’s Okay to Be A Brat When Planning for (Early) Retirement
• How Blogging Has Sped Our Progress to Financial Independence
• In Retirement (and Before!), Be Curious and Conscientious
• When We’re No Longer “Important” // Ego, Invisibility and Early Retirement
• Making Peace with Working the Full Year // Health Care, Philanthropy and Saying No
• There’s Never Been a More Important Time to Save Your Money
• Our Next Life Turns 2! // A Look Back, A Look Forward, and So Many Questions
• When Loyalists Contemplate Quitting
• Want Adventure AND Security? Just Change Your Timeline
• None of This Feels Real // On Big Numbers and Abstract Concepts
• Debt’s a Funny Thing // Plus: Why We’re Not Prepaying Our Rental Mortgage
• Waking Up in a Paid-Off House // A Farewell to Our Mortgage
• When the Crash Comes // Recession-Proofing Our Retirement Plans
• The Use It Up Challenge, and Our Nothing New Year
• 2017: The Year of “No”
• Where We’re Landing // 2016 Financial Wrap-Up (with Charts!)
• Recognizing the Difference Between Burnout and a Dead End
• Asking for More and Getting It // 2016 Goals Review + 2017 Goal Setting
• The Great Flip-Flop // How We’ve Reversed Roles on Our Retirement Timing
• Allocating Our Windfalls // It’s Bonus Time!
• Not Fostering Comparison // Are We the Joneses?
• What If We Retired Today? // Almost Year-End Progress Check-In
• Go Beyond Gratitude // With Great Wealth Comes Great Responsibility
• How Subsidies Make Early Retirement Possible, Even Without Obamacare
• What the Election and a Trump Presidency Mean for Early Retirement
• Resist the Pull of the Echo Chamber in Retirement
• The Privilege of Retiring When We Want, How We Want // Three Case Studies
• The End of the Perks // Preparing to Say Goodbye to the Upside of Work
• The Power of a Low Income in Early Retirement
• Financial Independence Is a Good Goal, But a Bad Goalpost
• Our Big Epiphany: We Will Earn Money in Retirement
• What They Don’t Tell You About Retiring Early // Lessons From Jim Wang
• Don’t Check Out Early // Staying Engaged in the Home Stretch to Early Retirement
• You Don’t Need That Thing // On Cachet Vs. Value
• How Combined Finances Helped Us Get to FIRE Faster
• How Well Do We Really Know Our Post-Retirement Selves?
• The Magic Is Real // 2016 Q3 Update
• To Care or Not To Care // The Work Mindset As Retirement Nears
• Creating Your Community // #FinCon16 Recap
• Create a Flexible Vision for Your Next Life // Presence Over Absence
• Quitting the Hustle for Good // Plus Why It’s Okay Not to Side Hustle
• Weird Urges As Early Retirement Nears
• Will Freedom from Deadlines in Early Retirement Be a Good Thing?
• Transitioning Our 401(k)s After We Retire
• The World Is Speeding Up. We’re Eager to Slow Down.
• The Non-Science of Blogging Anonymously
• Choosing People Over Money // The Story of Our Rental Property
• The Mountain Town Blues // The Downsides of Paradise
• Our Pre-Retirement To Do List
• Five Ways to Make a Difference Today
• It’s Not Always About Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
• What Are Your Early Retirement Deal-Breakers?
• How We’ve Upped Our Savings Game Without Budgeting
• Of Boosts and Bootstraps // One Story, Two Ways
• A Life of Yes // Our Early Retirement Aspiration
• The Peril of Second-Guessing Decisions
• The Evolution of Our Early Retirement Vision // Summer 2016 Edition
• Planning for Social Interaction in Early Retirement // You Need New Friends!
• Rethinking Work in Early Retirement // Contingencies, Sequence Risk and Fail Safes
• The Retirement Lie Part 1 // Media, Social Norms and the Problem with “Average”
• Fessing Up to Our Most Cheapskate Habits
• All the Sparkles // 2016 Q2 Financial Update
• Independence Day and Our Financial Independence Message
• Our Biggest Lesson from the Financial Crisis // Don’t Bank on Going Back to Work
• Embodying Our Best Selves Way Before We Reach Early Retirement
• What If the (Almost) Worst Happens?
• A Different (Better!) Way to Turn Pro
• Don’t Wait. Do It Now.
• The Theory of Relativity and the Perception of Rich and Poor
• Replacing the Gold Stars // A Future with No Promotions, No Awards
• The Road Less Traveled Challenge
• Why Creativity and Money Don’t Mix… For Me
• All the Secrets of Our Success // A Compendium
• When Frugal Is the Worst Thing We Can Be // On Time Vs. Money
• The Unstructured Early Retirement Dress Rehearsal
• How to Stay Healthy and Happy While Traveling
• When Bad Money Advice Seems Reasonable
• How Will It Feel to Actually Spend Our Investments?
• Financial Independence Means No More Excuses
• Optimizing Our Retirement Income // ACA and Taxes Vs Actual Cashflow
• Planning for Health Care in Early Retirement
• “Won’t You Be Bored?” and Other Questions You Hear on the Road to Early Retirement
• Reconsidering When to Give Notice
• Leveraging Streaks to Supercharge Your Progress
• Crafting a Life That Keeps the Stoke High
• The Comfort of a Big Nest Egg… for Later
• Make Sure Your Vision Includes Joyful Generosity
• When It’s Better To Think Like a Rich Person
• The Frugal Habits We Don’t Miss for One Second
• The Fear Behind Dollar Cost Averaging, and How We Freed Ourselves Of It
• Conquering Impatience on the Road to Financial Independence
• What’s Got Us So Excited // Quarterly Financial Update
• Reconciling Our Online Selves and Real Life
• The False Distinction Between Financial Independence and Early Retirement
• What’s Our Money Really For? // There’s More to Life Than Future Goals
• Rethinking the Emergency Fund
• The Ups and Downs of Getting Close to Early Retirement
• Would You Spend More If You Could?
• Dreaming in Maximum Bigness
• Spreading the Word About FIRE… to Strangers
• How My Audit Fears Dictate Our Taxes
• Understanding Reduces Fear // Lessons from the Sky
• What Keeping Our House Cold Has Taught Us
• Are We Cut Out for Small Town Living Long Term?
• Invest More or Pay Down the Mortgage? // What To Do With Extra Funds
• How We Calculated Our Numbers for Each Phase of Early Retirement
• How We’ve Grown Up Together Financially
• How Do You Define Financial Independence? // + a Very Full Bucket
• Then January Happened // The Joy of Fluid Goals
• Going Out on Top // Retiring at the Peak
• Mapping Out Our First Year of Early Retirement
• The Moral Ambiguity of Obamacare Subsidies for Early Retirees
• Our Next Life Turns 1 // Our First Blogiversary!
• What Work Travel Has Taught Us About Minimalism and Life
• Minimizing Your Housing Costs // Don’t Let the Banks Set Your Budget
• When We’re Not on the Same Page About Money
• What Do You Want Your Tombstone to Say? // Defining Our Purpose
• Interview with Robert & Robin Charlton, Authors of How to Retire Early
• Why We Ignored The Experts and Loaned Money to Family
• Why We Take Willpower Out of the Equation
• Time to Climb a New Mountain // Setting Our Sights Higher
• Choosing to See the Best // Our Non-Resolutions for an Inspiring New Year
• Of Mice and Money // 2015 Wrap-Up and 2016 Rundown
• A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings // The Story of Our Worst and Best Investment
• The Journey Is the Destination // Planning for Early Retirement Is the Joy In Itself
• FI Interview on Even Steven Money // Plus a Money Fail
• The Good and Bad of Entitlement in Early Retirement
• It’s Year-End Bonus Time // The Irony That Comes with Doing Personal Finance Right
• Why We’re Not Going to Complain About Work Anymore
• How We Convinced Our Families to Do a No-Spend Christmas
• Our Triple Bottom Line // Balancing Frugality With Our Values
• Make Thanksgiving Your Gratitude Day
• It’s Never Too Late to Define Yourself // Inspiration from Julia Child
• Our Next Life By the Numbers // Our 100th Post!
• Our Golden Handcuffs // Sticking It Out in Stressful Jobs Until We Retire
• The Ten Questions to Answer Before You Retire Early
• Finding Your Kindling // Lighting Your FIRE with Contagious Flames
• The Anti-Greed Manifesto // Early Retirement Is About “Enough”
• Changing How We “Spend” Our Time // Mindful Spending and Budgeting Aren’t Just About Money
• All the Charts // Our Progress Toward Early Retirement
• Consider Your Anchors // How We’ve Dodged the Lifestyle Inflation Bullet
• This Is Not My Beautiful House // This Is Not My Beautiful Wife
• Living in a Small Town // Good for Finances, But Not for Everything
• Why Married Early Retirees Should See Our Marriages As Our Most Important Investments
• Happy Sacrifices // What We’re Willing to Give Up to Retire Early
• Set Yourself Up to Float, Not Sink // Deliberately Seeking Positive Buoyancy
• How We Went from Ballers to Savers, and Lived to Tell the Tale
• Planning for a Long Life and Planning for the Worst // Our Estate Planning Approach
• Adjusting Our Goals // Rolling With the Market Punches
• On Still Not Sharing (Most of) Our Numbers // Talking Finance With No Finances
• Beyond Frugal Gifts // Giving Gifts of Experience
• When Did We Become Grown-Ups? // Embracing Our Adultness
• Size Matters // Should We Downsize Our Home When We Retire?
• The Joy of Better Late Than Never // Gratitude on the Road to “Late” Early Retirement
• The “Our Next Life” Series // Time to Join In!
• Fostering a Spirit of Lifelong Curiosity // Staying Young in Retirement
• The Meaning of Labor Day // Reflections as We Prepare to Leave the Labor Market
• Our Blogging Philosophy // Lessons Learned in Writing About Our Next Life
• Progress and Uncertainty on the Road to Early Retirement // Mid-Year Check-In
• Our Resolutions for Retirement // Kicking Bad Work Habits to the Curb
• The Flight Attendant Who Blew Our Minds // Life Lessons at 30,000 Feet
• Thinking About Frugality More Broadly // A Call to Action
• Our DIY Life // How We Save (and Sometimes Splurge) By Doing It Ourselves
• How We’ll Learn to Stop Worrying and Love The Budget // Managing Our Finances in Retirement
• The About Series // What Is Our Next Life?
• Feature on Canadian Budget Binder
• Craving the Open Road // Our Early Retirement Travel Vision
• Goals, Reality and Quirks // Our Asset Allocation
• Sunshine Blogger Award
• What We Won’t Miss About Working // The Joy of Aspiring Early Retirees
• Our Sliding Doors Weekend // The Expensive Future That Could Have Been
• Living Simply with Plenty of Stuff // Why We Never Plan to Downsize Radically
• What We’ll Lose When We Stop Working // The Lament of Aspiring Early Retirees
• Practicing a Simpler Life // Rehearsal for Early Retirement
• Spending On Our Health, Our Most Important Asset
• How We Pay Ourselves First // Advice for Money-Conscious Non-Budgeters
• How to Define Ourselves in Retirement // Creating a New Vision of Self Worth
• Justifying Our Biggest Splurge // Why We Spend So Much on Groceries
• Bucking Tradition, But Not All Tradition // Finding Our Early Retirement Guard Rails
• Why We’re Optimistic About Early Retirement
• Independence Day, Financial Independence and Gratitude to Those Who Made It Possible
• On Potential, and Not Reaching Ours
• Should You Move to Retire? // Why We Moved to a Small Town
• Boos and Yays // Plus Friday Shoutouts and Thanks
• Guest Post by Eat the Financial Elephant // The Weight of Your Decisions
• What we want to do when we grow up // Becoming more useful in early retirement
• Not Quite a Shopping Ban, But Not Shopping
• Guest Post at Eat the Financial Elephant // Our Dirtbag Dreams // Reaching the Summit
• living for today — and tomorrow
• The Best Bad Money Decisions We Ever Made
• in early retirement, what’s to stop us from getting old too fast?
• the power of compounding — in our incomes
• when your finances don’t fit into the standard box // lies the financial industry tells us
• getting comfortable with risk
• how blogging has changed our finances and our hearts
• learn to camp, and save lots of money over traditional travel
• on not following a budget
• planning for early retirement means living a double life
• moving on from badass
• how we travel on the cheap
• when you’re not naturally frugal // are we doomed?
• retiring in a high cost of living area
• early retirement is a marathon, not a sprint
• what’s best on paper or what’s best for your soul?
• net worth progress
• saving money, conserving resources
• liebster award and more oversharing
• choosing our financial independence day
• will money become a source of tension?
• why the urgency?
• rejecting helplessness, embracing self-reliance
• how we’ve saved our stash
• impermanence and freedom
• why we don’t talk numbers
• ten ways to make work travel feel like real travel
• travel now or travel later?
• exhaustion and status
• the perfect day
• a two-part retirement
• evolution of a dream
• banking for the future
• adventures we dream of
• quitting the side hustle
• the wardrobe cue
• the value of health
• frugal = environmental = healthy
• work is still the reality
• non-negotiables
• backup plans
• the cost of time
• our next life list
• what we mean by “retirement”
• hiya

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