When I first discovered FIRE six and a half years ago, my first thought was: This is bullshit! No one retires in their 30s. You’re supposed to work until 65 or 67, move to Florida and die. End of story. What were these crazy people on the Internet trying to sell? But then, I read […]
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24 Months Of Early Retirement in 24 Pictures
This Saturday will mark the two year anniversary of my departure from formal work, I’ll have much more to say on that next week. In the meantime, enjoy some juicy photos. 2017 April: I left my job on 4/13. A week before my last day, I stopped in the Chicago office for one last trip. […]
10 Purple Questions With A Purple Life
Today’s 10 Questions features A Purple Life (APL)! No, this blog has nothing to do with Prince or even Minnesota. APL lives in Seattle and her story is pretty great. She went from this: I believed that no one could retire early. I received an email from my Mom during my early years in NYC […]
FIREy Frauds
The FIRE movement has been in the news. A lot. You can’t go even a day without seeing a headline about someone who is in their 30s and has enough money to leave work. There is even a movie coming out about FIRE that is debuting in the coworking space that I partially own. However, […]
WMD (Weapon Of Marital Destruction) In The 1500 Household?
I like my body pretty much the way it is. If I had to nitpick, I wish that I wasn’t so scrawny and it would be nice to have just a little cardio endurance, but I’m pretty healthy, so nothing to rightfully complain about. My better half, Mrs. 1500, likes to decorate her body with […]
Honey, We Bought A Coworking Space
If you sleep 8 hours per night, you have 112 conscious hours per week. Throw in a job with a commute and subtract 50 hours. 45% of your time is now gone. Throw a couple children into the mix and BOOM, you barely have time to eat and bathe. It’s difficult to keep your head […]
Trading Places (Becoming Mr. Mom)
Up until a couple years ago, I worked and Mrs. 1500 didn’t. Mrs. 1500 and I had agreed that she would leave her job when the first child arrived and wouldn’t go back. We quickly found our rhythm when child one arrived on the scene. I worked 40-50 hours per week while the Mrs. cooked, […]
Performance Update (Day 2249): KISS My VTSAX
Ask the Readers returns in a couple of weeks. This week, I regale you with numbers and bad jokes in my February performance update. Next week, I’ll tell you about the coworking space Mrs. 1500 and I bought and why we did it. My main goal* was to build an investment and cash portfolio of $1,120,000* […]
10 Questions With Retire Before Dad (And The Net Worth Nudist Colony)
Today’s 10 Questions features Retire Before Dad. After reviewing his answers, I realize that I’m part of the Net Worth Nudist Colony! Scary! But wait, don’t click away! It’s not what you think it is… There are approximately 476,492,292,928 personal finance blogs last time I checked. Why should we read yours? My Dad retired at […]
Ask The Readers: Resolution Solutions?
First, we must get down to contest business! Last week, I announced that I’m giving away three Wahl shavers. All you had to do was write a Haiku. I brought in guest judge Physician on FIRE (aka Poet Laureate of the Frozen North) to judge your submissions. Here are the winners per Dr. Haiku: Grand […]
10 Questions With rich & REGULAR
I met Julien and Kiersten at Camp FI Southeast earlier this year and their talk reminded me of something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. Let me back up a second. In my day to day life, I’m surrounded mostly by other humans like me; software/ entrepreneurial dudes who wear flannel, drink fancy beer […]