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How to Start to Create Passive Income - Part I
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You Can Afford Anything . Just Not Everything. What's It Gonna Be? 8220;I Want to Create Passive Income, But I Don’t Know Where to Start” — Part I. May 11, 2015. You hop on a flight to Brazil or Costa Rica or Thailand. You spend a month reveling in the sand and surf. You taste new foods. You discover new music. You spot wildlife you’ve never imagined. You return to the U.S., check your bank account, and notice your balance has. Money than you had when you started. Sound like a fantasy? These statements r...
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October 2016: Our Money Went Where? - Slowly Sipping Coffee
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Saying goodbye to the 9 to 5. October 2016: Our Money Went Where? November 7, 2016. November 7, 2016. Our money went where? Let’s take a look! Overall, our yearly spending is still projecting us to be just under $50k/year which is right in line with our assumptions. Woohoo! Like everyone else with money in the markets, our overall investments are down 1.5%, booo Still on track to be FI by 2018 though, so that is excellent! October…. Not so much. Haircuts ate up $56. Usually, they aren’t lined up like...
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Chautauqua October 2015: Times Two!
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The Simple Path to Wealth. You are here: Home. Chautauqua October 2015: Times Two! Chautauqua October 2015: Times Two! If you have read this blog for long, or any of my Chautauqua posts, you know that for the last couple of years we have taken small groups to Ecuador for a week of adventure and conversation surrounding life, freedom, happiness and investing. We call it a Chautauqua, an old Native American word Robert M. Pirsig, the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I first stayed at El...
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The False Choices That Steal Our Future - Frugalwoods
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Financial independence and simple living. The False Choices That Steal Our Future. By Mrs. Frugalwoods. Middot; July 29, 2015. I’ve been reflecting quite a bit lately on the various facets of my life that go against the grain. In many ways, I disagree with the fundamental notions of what our culture says ‘the good life’ is all about. Whether it’s my disavowal of the theory that all new parents want (and should buy) only brand-new baby things. Or my negation of the pressures society levies on women. That ...
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How I Paid Off $89,000 of Debt in 18 Months
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Skip to primary navigation. Skip to primary sidebar. How I Paid Off $89,000 of Debt in 18 Months. February 10, 2017. This post may contain affiliate links. Today I am DEBT FREE. It feels so good to say that after spending the last year and a half of my life paying off some serious debt. My debt consisted of a mix of student loans, car loan, and credit cards – specifically the nasty 0% interest credit cards that trap you. Between that and the student loans, I put myself into $53,000 of debt. It took me 18...
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Re-paying off the Mortgage – Southern Fried Finance
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Skip to main content. Re-paying off the Mortgage. May 30, 2016. May 30, 2016. We have a problem that I’ll take any day. We have over $500,000 sitting in our checking account. What to do with it? Quickly, the back story. Early last year, we paid off our home mortgage. 8220;Never again shall you hold our deed in trust” we proclaimed to creditors everywhere. Our resolve lasted 8 months. Since it has taken so long, it’s like a new decision on new circumstances. Buy something else? I’ve been all over th...
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$3.4M Net Worth – 2016 Q3 – Southern Fried Finance
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Skip to main content. 34M Net Worth – 2016 Q3. October 14, 2016. We continued to grow our net worth over the last six months. A little slower than the previous year, but lots of progress nonetheless. We’re a little over $3.4M as of Q3 end, so up almost a quarter of a million dollars in the last six months! Of this, $2.8M is in investments (excludes our house). We’re still making good headway towards our updated goal of $4M in net investment assets. And also sold a rental house. We also capitalized one ne...
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You'll Never Know if You Don't Try... - Slowly Sipping Coffee
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Saying goodbye to the 9 to 5. You’ll Never Know if You Don’t Try…. December 13, 2016. December 13, 2016. And you walk away right at the worst moment. I’m trying to say, You’ll never know if you don’t try. That last part really stuck with me in relation to our Fully Funded Lifestyle Change (FFLC). Journey, recent career changes. And even a new venture concept I came up with a few months ago. Let’s start with the FFLC aspect. Try and Try Again. When this FIRE (Financially Indpependent Retire Early). What i...
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Financial Independence After Tragedy
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Financial Independence After Tragedy. By The Mad Fientist. Bull; 49 Comments. Today, I’m excited to put a Mad Fientist reader Under the Microscope. For the first time! A reader named Clay was brave enough to share his story so please take some time to read about his journey and share any advice you may have in the comments. Was a Network Engineer for years, now I’m a Section Supervisor for a networking group. Current after-tax savings rate. How did you get on the path to FI? In times of crisis I need to ...
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Millionaire Educator - Financial Independence on Teachers' Salaries
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Millionaire Educator – Financial Independence on Teachers’ Salaries. By The Mad Fientist. Bull; 40 Comments. Ed Mills from MillionaireEducator.com. Joined me for an episode of the Financial Independence Podcast. To talk about how he and his wife saved nearly a million dollars in just 16 years…on teachers’ salaries! We get into some really interesting tax-avoidance and geographic-arbitrage strategies so if you want to learn ways to drastically increase your income and savings rate, this episode is for you!
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