Welcome to the full archive of posts here at Our Next Life.
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- December 2016 (5)
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Archive of every post
(Newest at the top, oldest at the bottom)
- Choosing an Offline Life
- 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
