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Here is the feature that at least 3 of you asked for; all posts! Be careful what you wish for; there is a lot of dreck in here. You’ve been warned!

  • Warren Buffett Bet, Year 8: Yeah Baby, Yeah!
  • Random 2025 Thoughts: Money, Technology, Me
  • Introducing The FI Collective
  • Guest Post: Is Toilet Paper A Better Investment Than AI Stocks?
  • Discovering FI, Our Town, And My Life
  • The Very Big F.O.O.L.I.S.H. Project
  • Performance Update: Q3 Madness!
  • Is This What Will Disrupt Index Investing?
  • Road Trip: California Coast
  • Road Trip Part 2: Craig To Salt Lake City
  • Road Trip Day 1: Longmont To Craig
  • Maximum Fitness: The Best Benefit Of FIRE
  • Recession? When?!??
  • Performance Update, Q2: Not On My Bingo Card
  • The Question No One Asks
  • Thought Exercises To Get Out Of Your Rut And Live Bigger
  • Sustaining Sanity For The Long Adventure Ahead
  • 7 Ways To Invest In SpaceX
  • 8 Years of FIRE: Lessons Learned
  • Everyone Has A Plan…
  • Freaking Out Over Market Farts?
  • Performance Update: Q1 2025
  • The Evolution Of My FI Life
  • The Awakening
  • Old MR2, Politics, And An Angry Iguana
  • Podcast Appearance And A New Show!
  • Performance Update, January 2025: Big Market Farts
  • Living In A Star Trek World (almost)
  • Warren Buffett Bet, Year 7: Back To Winning
  • 2024 Review/ 2025 Planning
  • Fitness Update: Cookie Madness, Old Rotator Cuffs, And Progress
  • Performance Update: Irrational Exuberance?
  • What Purchases Have Made You Happy Lately?
  • My Workout Routine (Muscles at 50!?!!)
  • How I Picked Stocks
  • Performance Update: September 2024, All-Time High!
  • Tesla Robotaxi Event
  • Fitness Update: “You Looked Like An Amorphous Blob”
  • One Year With The Tesla Model Y: The Good, The Bad, The Misinformed, And The Best Car
  • Performance Update: June, July, August!! Oh My!!!
  • FI Has Taken Over My Life
  • Two Incredible (And Humbling) Index Investing Truths (And Hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon Living)
  • Performance Update: May*
  • Random Thoughts On Long Travel
  • A New Vantage Point
  • The World Is Amazing
  • Interview With The Mad FIentist
  • Performance Update: March Badness!
  • How Far Will Tesla Tank? -or- When Your Hypothesis Takes A Break
  • Money Will Solve Money Problems…
  • Performance Update: February Rebound!
  • My Experience With Tesla FSD 12.3
  • Car Free Living With Mr. Money Mustache At Culdesac (Mile High FI Interview)
  • 10 Questions With Dr. Neill Slater
  • January 2024 Performance: Tesla Dump!
  • Kim Ehardt: Resourcefulness, Optimism, And Inspiration
  • Money Moves And Curious Questions For 2024
  • An Index Fund In Reverse (Facebook Insanity!)
  • RANT: STOP FOCUSING ON THE 4% RULE!!!
  • Deoptimization
  • Warren Buffett Bet: Year 6 Update
  • 2023 In Review: Surpassing Max Q
  • November Performance. It’s All Good.
  • My Biggest Investing Takeaway For 2023
  • Happiness Part 3: Deep Contentment Is The Goal
  • Thoughts On The Tesla Cybertruck
  • Charlie Munger
  • October Performance: Tesla Take Down!
  • Optimism
  • The $355 Tesla Model Y: The Good, The Bad and The FSD
  • September Performance: Bathroom Madness!
  • Happiness Series Part 2: Five Big-Ass Spending Experiments
  • 7 Thoughts On Happiness: Part 1
  • Camp FI: Southern California (Mired In FIRE)
  • Butterflies Can’t Swim
  • August Performance: Rhymes With August?!??
  • Tesla: BOOM or Doomed?
  • Weekend With The Webb Brothers
  • All The Hacks And Funtrotting
  • More Mortgage Musings
  • July Performance (Tech Gone Wild!? Kindof.)
  • Lifestyles Of The Happy And Content
  • Indiana And The Aussie Firebug
  • Emma, Camp FI, Ryans, Pugs, And Taylor Swift
  • Performance Update: 2023, Q2: Evil Rainbows.
  • At Peace With Money (And A Friend With Benefits)
  • Why Ramit?
  • Thoughts On Slow Travel
  • What If You Run Out Of Life?
  • Berkshire Hathaway 2023
  • March Performance And The Bidet Face Spray
  • I Bought A Chevy Bolt!: The Good, The Bad, And The Laggy
  • Tuesday Rant: Two Numbers
  • Longmont Changes Name To Stashmont
  • Retirement Soon (and February Money Update)
  • Digging, Mudding, Building, Cincinnati, NYC
  • Meme Stock Shock (Money Update)
  • Ask The Readers: What If You Couldn’t Make Money?
  • Can I Win The Warren Buffett Bet? (Year 5 Update)
  • Happiness With Mr. Money Mustache On Mile High FI
  • 10 Years of 1500 Days
  • Performance Update: November
  • VTSAX Won’t Go To Zero
  • Is Now A Great Time To Retire?
  • Thankful To Be Thankful
  • Live Boldly
  • Performance Crapdate: August! September!! October!!! Oh My!!!!
  • Unicorns, The Easter Bunny, And Safe Passive Returns
  • How I Earned $75,000 By Dumping Health Insurance Without Losing Healthcare (or peace of mind)
  • Project House Update 2: Better With Friends
  • Oops I Did It Again
  • The Real You, Mile High FI, Orlando, And Dinosaurs
  • Performance Update (July): Dunno.
  • Have You Tried To Buy An EV Lately?
  • When The Game Doesn’t Feel Quite The Same
  • California Slow Coasting
  • Performance Update, June 2022: COVID Blows Up Life (Again)
  • Road Trip: Update 2! (Boise And Sunriver)
  • Inspiration Stagnation/ Road Trip!
  • Performance Update, May 2022: Maximum OOF!
  • Random Adventures In Germany!
  • Why Your Future Is Going To Be Awesome
  • The Right Question To Ask About The Crazy Markets
  • Performance Update, April 2022: Zoom Out
  • 5 Years Of FIRE Life
  • Tesla Cyber Rodeo (Extreme Nerd Debauchery!)
  • Performance Update, February 2022: Time To Pivot
  • Seattle And Friday Harbor!
  • Early Retirement Withdrawal Strategies When It All Goes To Hell
  • Six Thoughts On Losing $1,000,000
  • Mad Fientist On Mile High FI!
  • A Fi By Any Other Name
  • Performance Update, January 2022: Inflation Devaluation (-$358,195)!
  • Mile High FI: Paula Pant, JL Collins, and MMM
  • It Was Never About Frugality
  • Stock Picking Experiment With Dividend Growth Investor: Year 4 Update!
  • New Video: DIY Update!
  • 2021, 2022, VTSAX And Chill
  • Mile High FI: J. Money
  • BiggerPockets Money: Mindy, Me, And More Dinosaurs!
  • Unexpected Bucket Lists
  • Mile High FI With Jillian Johnsrud
  • The Anti-Withdrawal Strategy: How To Beat Sequence Risk
  • October 2021 Performance Update: Biggest, Crabbiest Month Ever!
  • JL Collins And The Difficult Path To Wealth
  • Cincinnati, EconoMe, And Skyline Chili
  • Comfort Zones Are Where Dreams Go To Die
  • Guest Post: How Working Remotely And Nomading Can Save You Money
  • Tesla, My First $1,000,000 Investment
  • September 2021 Performance Update: More Building, Less Blogging
  • Live-In Flip Update: Eyes Bigger Than Stomach
  • How To Money Interview
  • August 2021 Performance Update: Jurassic Crash!
  • Port Aransas, Austin, FinCon, And The Tesla Gigafactory
  • Interview With The Fioneers!
  • July 2021 Performance Update: The Beast!
  • How To Successfully Flip Homes For Fun And Profit!
  • Unlimited Upside
  • M.K. Williams On Mile High FI
  • The Incredible Power Of Community (Extroverted Introverts)
  • Hey Kids, Look At My Job! Or Not…
  • Northstar Unplugged And Diania Merriam/ Mile High FI
  • Nashville And Longmont Fun
  • Performance Update: 2021 Mid-Year Review
  • The Petersen Automotive Museum
  • The Incredible Lives Of My Adventurous Friends
  • May 2021 Performance Update: Super Lazy Edition
  • Mile High FI: Ask Us Anything
  • Ask The Readers: The Crappy Couch Cacophony
  • 10 Questions With The Financial Panther
  • Camp FI Rocky Mountain
  • April 2021 Performance Update: Call Me Cacafuego
  • Who Are You Really?
  • How I Hired The Best People In The World To Make Me Rich
  • New Challenges To Conquer Old Weaknesses (Future You!)
  • March 2021 Performance Update: Trailer Park Post-Mortem
  • 10 Questions With Financial Fives
  • The $1,000,000 Question
  • Guest Post: Turning “What If?” Into “Why Not?”
  • Introducing The FIRE Olympics
  • February 2021: Rays Of Light, Even If We’re Down $84,411
  • 10 Questions With Escaping Silicon Valley
  • Meet Me At EconoMe!
  • The $50,000,000 Question
  • Home Sale: Mortgage Post-Mortem
  • January 2021: Up $236,821
  • April 2022 Won’t Happen
  • The Ultimate Frugal Valentine’s Day Guide
  • The Difficult Path To Wealth
  • Tesla Test Drive: Butt Y?
  • Stock Picking Experiment: Year 3 Update
  • 2020 Review: Tesla Takes Off, Big Tech Dominates, And Friends
  • December Performance Update, Day 2921: Up $156,573
  • November Performance Update, Day 2890: Up $284,823 (Short-Term Silliness)
  • Bad Bosses, Conniving Coworkers, And Team Buiding Terror
  • The Joy Of Moving Rocks
  • October Performance Update, Day 2860: Down $33,522
  • Is Early Retirement Selfish?
  • Is Retirement Expensive?
  • September Performance, Day 2829: Down $140,847
  • When leanFIRE Goes To fatFIRE: Lifestyles Of The Dirty And Smelly
  • Demand The Best For Yourself
  • What is Your Money Moment?
  • COVID Life, Fire, And Ice
  • Withdrawal Strategies Part 2: Roth Conversions, Health Care, And College
  • Money Withdrawal Strategies (Keeping The Tax Man Away)
  • 10 Questions With Best Interest
  • August Performance Update Day 2789 (Up $311,000!): Tesla Getcha!
  • 10 Questions With Financial Freedom Countdown
  • Live-In Flip Update: 9 Months In
  • Ask The Readers: How Are You Doing?
  • Performance Update (Day 2768): What The Tech?
  • 10 Questions With Saved By The Cents
  • Juggernauts, Jargonauts, And Jabberwock -or- How I Got Rich With Big Tech
  • Performance Update (Day 2738): Where Do We Go From Here?
  • 3+ Years Of FIRE: Reflections On Home School Hell, Happiness, And Death
  • Empty Workshop
  • Dad
  • Performance Update (Day 2708): Velociraptors And Viruses
  • What I Wish I Knew
  • Guest Post: FI By Any Means Necessary
  • Performance Update (Day 2677): Tech On A Tear!
  • When Life Goes Off The Rails
  • A New Mortgage With A Side Of Lucky Market Timing
  • Performance Update (Day 2647): COVID Crashes The Party
  • Yet Another Lazy Photo Edition
  • How Are You Doing?
  • The Upside
  • What We’re Doing With Money
  • Frozen Dinosaurs, Axe Murderers, Murderous Multiples, Ignorance, Recession, And Depression
  • Backup Plans For Backup Plans
  • The Virus and Mr. Market’s Temporary Hiatus
  • 10 Questions With EducatorFI
  • Life Update
  • January Performance Update (+$83,582): Tesla Tantrum!
  • 10 Questions With PF Geeks (aka Naked Taco Bell Man)
  • My Thoughts On Tesla
  • 10 Questions with Five Year FIRE Escape
  • To Rent Or Own: An Odd Tale Of Buyer’s Remorse
  • The 33 Hour Bathroom Remodel
  • Stock Picking Experiment, Year 2 (Still Winning!)
  • 10 Questions With Sport Of Money
  • December/2019 Performance Update
  • 10 Questions With The Fioneers
  • 2020: Goals And Funk Holes
  • 2019 Financial Recap (30%!!! [???])
  • November Performance Update (Day 2524): LifeStyles Of The Boring And Frugal
  • Rant: The Ultimate Crappy Gift Guide
  • Give Me Your Best Lines!
  • Lazy Photo Edition
  • Joining The Multimillionaire Club (And What I’ve Learned About Money)
  • Living In A Land Of Infinite Possibility
  • October Performance Update (Day 2494): So It Begins…
  • The Why Of DIY
  • Ask The Readers: How Are You?
  • Richer In Retirement
  • 10 Questions With Stoj Finance
  • Five Tips For Finding Your Next Frank Lloyd Wrong Home To Flip (with Video)
  • September Performance Update (Day 2464): Hello New House, Goodbye Old Car
  • Live-In Flip: YouTube Home Tour
  • Funny Money Portfolio Update
  • Honey, We Bought Another House! (Why We Now Own Two Homes)
  • Why We Sold Our Fancy Car (the Acura NSX)
  • August Performance Update (Day 2435): Pour Some Lifestyle Inflation On Me
  • The Best Health Insurance
  • Ask The Readers: Your Why Of FI?
  • Washington DC, FinCon, Planes, and Dinosaurs!
  • Getting Rich With A Mortgage
  • August Fitness Challenge Update #3: Balance
  • 10 Questions With Financially Fit Kid
  • Interview With The Uneducated Professional
  • August Fitness Challenge Update #2: More Steps Or More Lettuce?
  • 10 Questions With Cooking Up FIRE
  • Quit Like A Millionaire: Book Review And Giveaway
  • August Fitness Challenge Update #1: Down 6 Pounds
  • 10 Questions With Rags To Nicer Rags
  • July Performance Update (Day 2404): The Superior Advantage Of Inferior Taste
  • August Fitness Challenge
  • RAGBRAI On FIRE
  • It’s Never Too Early for New Year’s Resolutions: Want to Step Out With MY Gang?
  • Midwest Roadtripping/ Questionable Swimming
  • 10 Questions With Brad From The Finn Mindset
  • Guest Post: 213 Days To Freedom
  • 10 Questions With Abandoned Cubicle
  • Rocky Mountain High At Camp FI
  • June Performance Update (Day 2373): Trailer Park Profit!
  • UK Chautauqua: FI Peeps, Scarce Sleep, And Lots of Sheep
  • April Performance Update (Day 2310): This Is Getting Ridiculous
  • 10 Questions With Why We Money
  • The Real Goal Of FIRE (And Life)
  • Yosemite
  • Be An Inflection Point To Someone
  • 10 Questions With Downsize Your 2080
  • What The Duck! (Notes From The 2019 Berkshire Hathaway Meeting)
  • 10 Questions With Life Outside The Maze
  • Why I Think The 4% Rule Sucks (The Most Case Scenario)
  • Mrs. 1500’s Second to-Last Half-Marathon Post
  • Fitness, Frugality, and FIRE
  • Meetups In Omaha This Saturday!
  • Two Years Of FIRE: Sometimes, You Just Have To Leap
  • 10 Questions With Vital Dollar
  • Performance Update (Day 2280): Buy The Burrito?
  • Playing With FIRE (The Gateway Drug)
  • 24 Months Of Early Retirement in 24 Pictures
  • 10 Purple Questions With A Purple Life
  • FIREy Frauds
  • WMD (Weapon Of Marital Destruction) In The 1500 Household?
  • Honey, We Bought A Coworking Space
  • Trading Places (Becoming Mr. Mom)
  • Performance Update (Day 2249): KISS My VTSAX
  • 10 Questions With Retire Before Dad (And The Net Worth Nudist Colony)
  • Ask The Readers: Resolution Solutions?
  • 10 Questions With rich & REGULAR
  • Ask The Readers: Fun Money Account?
  • Resolution Dilution?
  • Better Late Than Never?
  • Ask The Readers: Are We Loco For Buying Local?
  • 10 Questions With Reader Jake
  • Phoenix Rising
  • 10 Questions With Aardvark Advisor
  • Mrs. 1500’s Half Marathon Update – SMALL Success Episode
  • Performance Update (Day 2221): First $100,000 Month!
  • My Warren Buffett Bet: Year One Is In The Bag (And I’m Winning)
  • Chautauqua UK: Castles, Camarasaurs, And Community
  • 10 Questions With Crispy Cabbage
  • Stuff Versus Wealth
  • I’m Not Half The “Man” I Used To Be
  • 10 Questions With Winning Personal Finance
  • Accountability: Mrs. 1500’s Experience with Responsibility
  • Performance Update (Day 2019): Spending Is Overrated!
  • 2018 Review: Money, Blogging, Running, Dinosauring, And The Real Goal
  • A YEAR Of Challenges!
  • 15 Resolutions (And Cookie Absolution)
  • 10 Questions With The Crusher
  • Faffing About In Florida
  • Rant: I’m A National Disaster
  • Keep Calm And Invest On
  • Reverse Christmas
  • 10 Questions With The Frug
  • Mrs. 1500’s Last Half Marathon Update of the Year
  • Performance Update (Day 2059): November Spender Bender
  • Fitness Update: 58
  • Mrs. 1500’s Half Marathon – Mt. Everest Edition
  • Knuckle Shuffle Side Hustle
  • Minimalist Challenge Update: A Good Start
  • 10 Questions (And Anchovies) With Freddy Smidlap
  • Mrs. 1500’s Half Marathon – 5K Edition
  • A Thanksgiving Pilgrimage to the Land of FI
  • Ask the Readers: Who’s Up For A Challenge?
  • Fitness Update: No Cancer! (And Nutty Waldo)
  • Mrs. 1500’s Half Marathon – Episode 5: Thanksgiving Fallout
  • October Performance Update (Day 2129): Pseudo Prostitution In Trailer Park Destitution
  • Mrs. 1500’s Half Marathon – Episode 4
  • What If You Had Six Months To Live? (Happy Thanksgiving Edition!)
  • Fitness Update: Stupid Shoulder
  • Mrs. 1500’s Half Marathon – Episode 3
  • Guest Post: Disconnecting From The US Marketing Machine
  • Ask The Readers: Stepping Out Of Comfort Zones
  • 10 Questions With Lenny, The Blog Proofreader
  • Mrs. 1500’s Half Marathon – Episode 2
  • Happiness Isn’t About Experiences Either
  • Fitness Update: Food Porn Edition
  • Mrs. 1500’s Half Marathon – Episode 1
  • September Performance Update (Day 2098): Too Many Teslas
  • 22 Questions With HALT CATCH FIRE
  • Why I Went To Greece (Comfort Zone Expansion)
  • Grecian Delights, Dildos And Dinosaurs
  • Greece Chautauqua Report 2: Faffing About In Greece
  • Greece Chautauqua Report 1: Planes, Planes And More Planes
  • 10 Questions With IQ Calculators
  • Guest Post: APR Versus APY
  • The Lawsuit Is OVER! Announcing Camp FI CARLorado!
  • Fitness Update: Bad Blood And Badder Words
  • FinCon 2018: Random Tales From The Pink Flamingo
  • Why The Playing With FIRE Documentary Is Important
  • 10 Questions: GoWithLess
  • 10 Questions With Burning Desire For Fire
  • 10 Questions With Burrito Bowl Diaries
  • How To Become A FinCon Extrovert
  • Fitness Update: Walking Fool
  • August Performance Update (Day 2068): I Will Lose Lots Of Money Soon
  • 10 Questions With The Penny Planters
  • Passion Play Pay (What You Can And Cannot Learn From Me)
  • Fitness Update: Amazing Daughter C
  • I’d Rather Live Big
  • 10 (+) Questions With 1500 Days
  • Camp FI Minnesota (I Just Want To Be)
  • Anti-Fitness Update
  • Behind The Scenes Of Three FIREy Marriages
  • Ask The Readers: Could FIRE Set Fire To Your Marriage?
  • 10 Questions Is Back And I Want To Hear From You!
  • I’ll Figure Out What I Want To Be When I Grow Up
  • Ask The Readers: Your Perfect Work
  • Fitness Update: The Power Of Routine
  • July Performance Update (Day 2037): Hundred Thousand Dollar Dreams Decimated
  • Ask The Reader: Favorite Quotes/Advice
  • PopUp Business School In Longmont (Come On Out!)
  • Vacation Consternation (And The Best Pizza In The World)
  • Ask The Readers: About The Time I Told My Child Our Net Worth
  • Serial Entrepreneurs Are Kind of Like Bad Boyfriends
  • Real Estate FIRE Escape, Part II: Diversifying Your Income Streams
  • Real Estate FIRE Escape, Part I: The Math Behind Early Retirement with Rentals
  • What Day Is It?
  • June Performance Update (Day 2006): Mrs. 1500’s Next Husband
  • 2018 Midpoint: Portfolio Pops, Fitness Flops And FI Thoughts
  • 50 Years Left Of Vacation Days
  • Cavorting In Cuba
  • Ask The Readers: Stress From The IRS Mess
  • May Performance Update (Day 1976): Up $51,438! (Random Crap Edition)
  • Tumultuous Times And Some Cuban Downtime
  • Thursday Rant: I’m A Quadrillionaire! (And Other Crap)
  • Trailer Park #2: Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems?
  • Zen And The Art Of Mind Maintenance: Mr. PP And Mental Space
  • Strength Training Update #4: Mind Over Muscle
  • April Performance Update (Day 1945): Summer Is Here!
  • Zen And The Art Of Mind Maintenance: I Don’t Want The World To Change Me
  • Berkshire Hathaway 2018 Meeting: Buffett Makes A Strong Case For Indexing
  • Ask The Readers: Summer Travel!?
  • Strength Training Update #3: Avoiding Roly Poly Genocide
  • Busy Life (Back Soon)
  • Zen And The Art Of Mind Maintenance: People Filters
  • Introducing FI Clubs
  • Are You LeanFIRE, FatFIRE Or FartFIRE?
  • Strength Training Update #2: Puketastic Workouts!
  • March Performance Update (Day 1915): Pulling Back The Bowstring
  • When Do You Let Lifestyle Inflation Creep In?
  • Zen And The Art Of Mind Maintenance
  • Kid Finances: Dinosaur Dough, Education Frustration And Money Mechanics
  • Are You Happy?
  • Strength Training Update #1: Two Weeks In
  • I Set FIRE To My Life One Year Ago. Here’s How It’s Going.
  • Now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds
  • The American Dream (in Mexico?)
  • Ask The Readers: Best Financial Advice?
  • Quarter 2 Goal: Strength Training
  • What I Learned Running A Half Marathon
  • Half Marathon Training Update #12: It’s On.
  • Adventures In Oregon: Doughnuts, Dairy and Beer
  • Half Marathon Training Update #11: Doughnuts Obscene And A Macabre Scene
  • February Performance Update (Day 1884): My Streaking Days Are Over!
  • Ask The Readers: What’s The Worst Financial Advice You’ve Ever Received?
  • Half Marathon Training Update #10: The Nuclear Option.
  • How To Give Back In The Biggest Way
  • Ask The Readers: Have You Ever Wanted To Check Out Of Society?
  • Half Marathon Training Update #9: I Can Do This.
  • Meet The Frugalwoods (And Their Amateur Plumber)
  • Half Marathon Training Update #8: Mr. Creeper Peeper
  • Rant: Maximal Comfort Equals Minimal Living
  • Did The Correction Freak You Out? Be Honest!
  • Half Marathon Training Update #7: Blame It On The Books
  • Guest Post: No TV?
  • Do You Use Time Wisely?
  • Half Marathon Training Update #6: No Sleep Till Portland
  • January Performance Update (Day 1856): Up $119,622! (!!)
  • Should We Move?
  • Half Marathon Training Update #5: Fart? Wasn’t Me. Really!
  • #Hope
  • Meet Some Awesome People (And Dinosaurs!) At The Greece Chautauqua!
  • Half Marathon Training Update #4: The Sloth Running Team
  • How To Pay Zero Capital Gains
  • Ask the Readers: Would You Access Your 401(k) Before 59.5?
  • Half Marathon Training Update #3: The Beer Ratio
  • Performance Update (Day 1825): 2017! Up $270,573!!
  • Your Money Goals?
  • Half Marathon Training Update #2: Forrest Gumption
  • How The Graying Saver Conquered Grumpiness With Gratitude
  • Ask the Readers: How Many Loads of Laundry Do You Do Each Week?
  • Goal Update #1: Infinite Toilet Time!
  • Camp FI: Florida Edition! (Nerds, Rockets and Personal Growth)
  • Goals?
  • 2017 Review: ShamWows, Numbers, Dinosaurs, Pictures, Angry Wife!
  • Wanna Race in Portland?
  • Would You Take The Warren Buffett Bet?
  • Performance Update (Day 1794): It’s All About The Tribe
  • How To: Mobile Home Park Investing (Our Crazy $170K Bet)
  • Tell Me Again: What Is Your Net Worth?
  • Guest Post: What Is Fame?
  • What Temperature Do You Keep Your House At?
  • The Problem With FIRE
  • How Do You Cultivate Discipline?
  • Discipline Equals Freedom
  • Ask the Readers: Holiday Gifts – How Do You Handle Not Wanting Anything?
  • Performance Update (Day 1764): You’re Now Free To Roam About Your Life
  • What Are You Thankful For?
  • Seattle: Hot Cars, Cold Rain and Alien Flowers
  • Opening Up To Your Children About Finances
  • Turn Off On Country Route FI
  • Early Arrival at Retirementville
  • Do You Practice Gratitude?
  • Friday Gratitude: CENSORED!
  • BBQ, Beer, Back Soon
  • Six Months of Financial Independence: The Good, The Rad and The Ugly
  • Six Months of Financial Independence in Pictures
  • Guest Post: Run Your Life Like A Business
  • Wanna Meet in Dallas?
  • Guest Post: The Incredible Benefits of Waking at 5am
  • Performance Update (Day 1733): The Root of Competitiveness
  • Anti Bucket List?
  • Focus
  • Terrible Idea? (Nevermind)
  • Amazing PopUp People
  • Advice for a 23 Year Old?
  • Gratitude Guest Post: What Did You Do This Summer?
  • About the Time One of My Heroes Called Me a Loser
  • Ask the Readers: Tell Me about Your Summer Adventures
  • Performance Update (Day 1703): Rich Ducks and Bloated Guts
  • What do You Want to do Before You Die?
  • Guest Post: The Get Rich Slow Mindset
  • My Death March to Financial Independence
  • Ask the Readers: Focus, FI Life and an Agreeable Wife
  • Thursday Rant: 6 Phrases that will Doom Your Finances
  • Interview with Da Coach
  • Ask the Readers: Why Can’t I Sleep?
  • Gratitude: When Sh*t Hits the Fan Edition
  • Performance Update (Day 1672): Why I’ve Outperformed the Markets
  • Ask the Readers: Machiavellian Motivation?
  • Gratitude Found Through Perspective
  • Vacation Update 4: Sleep, Sheep, Covfefe
  • Vacation Update 3: NYC!
  • Living Small and Saving Big
  • Vacation Update 2: Verdant, Voluptuous, Vibrant Vermont
  • The Bigger Picture
  • Epic East Coast Vacation Update 1: Maine Event
  • Troll Control
  • The Incredible Value of Listening
  • Performance Update, Day 1641: Falling on the Beerwagon
  • Ask the Readers: Finding your Tribe
  • Friday Gratitude: Frugal Travel with Friends (and The Jim Collins Lounge Lizard Tour!)
  • How I Invest in Real Estate without the Hassle
  • Ask the Readers: Frugality versus Minimalism
  • Being Yourself is Sexy
  • The Friendly Russian Lives the American Dream
  • Friday Gratitude with Mustard Seed Money
  • Ask the Readers: Favorite Places on Earth?
  • Friday Gratitude: Bring It
  • Investable Assets: How to Accumulate your First $100,000
  • Ask the Readers: $1,500,000 Per Year?
  • Performance Update, Day 1611: I Have A Small One
  • Roadtrip Part 3: PoF’s Piece of Pleistocene Paradise
  • Five Things I Miss About Work with ESI Money
  • Roadtrip Part 2: Alepocalypse Now
  • Friday Gratitude: Bikes and Beer
  • Getting Naked in the Costco Parking Lot
  • Roadtrip: Part 1
  • Friday Gratitude with My Son’s Father
  • All-Time Highs!
  • Performance Update (Day 1580): Chaos in FI (Flatulence Independence)
  • Ask the Readers: Summer?
  • A Swift Kick in the Pants (with Mrs. BITA)
  • Dialing it Back
  • Interview on My Sons Father
  • Ask the Readers: What Would You STILL Not Do, Even if Money was no Object?
  • Friday Gratitude with Coach Carson
  • What Flying Airplanes Taught Me About FIRE
  • Friday Gratitude: Full Circle
  • Portfolio Update: Dinoriffic Investing Advice
  • How did you discover the FI Movement?
  • Notes From the First Week of Freedom
  • The Ultimate Investment Account for Entrepreneurs
  • Ask the Readers: How Much Would You Bet?
  • Free: I’m Done.
  • Living Right with Montana Money Adventures
  • Ask the Readers: Are We Hypocrites?
  • Friday Gratitude: Goodbye Office
  • Performance Update (Day 1550): Daughter D Learns a New Word
  • Your Net Worth or The Herps?
  • Guest Post: How to be the Happiest Person in the Room
  • Ask the Readers: What Would You Do?
  • Friday Mindfulness: Open Eyes
  • My $17.89 Phone Bill on Ting
  • Ask the Readers: Bucket List! (And FI Town!)
  • Friday Mindfulness: Confession, I’m Polyinvestmentamorous
  • Guest Post: Mind Wide Shut
  • Performance Update 50: Whatever.
  • Rant: ???
  • The Greatest Life Hack of All
  • Friday Mindfulness: Wonderful Warren, Pianos and NYC Pizza
  • Ask the Readers: What’s your Best Life Hack?
  • Friday Mindfulness: Distraught Daughter, Donating Doctor and a Lovely Shower
  • Ecuador Part 3: Passion Reignited
  • Ask the Readers: Is Fear Keeping You from Your Best Life?
  • Real Estate Investing from a Distance
  • Why I Write from the Throne
  • Day 1500
  • Performance Update 49/50: Samoan Invasion
  • Ask the Readers: Conquering Fear
  • I Love Owning a Home
  • Passive Income (and Inspiration) from Laura at Laundromats101
  • Ask the Readers: What is your Net Worth?
  • 10 Questions with Mapped out Money
  • Redefining Wealth
  • Guest Post: Lessons from a Frugal DIY Renovation
  • Ask the Readers: About the Time I asked Mrs. 1500 for a Prenup (and a giveaway)
  • 10 Questions with My Money Wizard
  • Why I Sold my Apple Stock (and my Litmus Test)
  • Ecuador Part 2: My Peeps 4 Keeps
  • Ask the Readers: Do You Combine Finances With Your Spouse/Partner?
  • 10 Questions with Ten! Factorial Rocks
  • Performance Update 48/50: 2016, where did you go?
  • Ask the Readers: What’s the Cheapest Thing You’ve Ever Done?
  • 10 Questions with The Happy Philosopher
  • Guest Post: 7 Misconceptions About the 4 Percent Rule
  • Ask the Readers: Tell Us about Your Amazing Goals for 2017!
  • Get Comfortable Talking About Money
  • Four Phases of FI
  • Back Soon…
  • 10 Questions with Solving Finance!!!
  • Rant: Horrible Gifts
  • Ask the Readers: Are you FI-curious? Polyworkarous??
  • 10 Questions with ESI from ESI Money
  • Performance Update 47/50: $1,600,058!!! (Net Worthy November)
  • Ask the Readers: Is Early Retirement an All or Nothing Proposition?
  • 10 Questions with It Pays Dividends
  • Ecuador, Part 1: Pictures, Pilsener and more Pilsener
  • Ask the Readers: Breaking the Bank for a Haircut?!?
  • 10 Questions with Be Smart Rich
  • How to Save Money on Black Friday
  • Ask the Readers: Which Wolf do You Feed?
  • 10 Questions with Make Smarter Decisions
  • Performance Update 46/50: The Epiphany
  • Ask the Readers: Have Your Early Retirement Plans Changed?
  • The Best Real Estate Strategies For Early Retirement
  • 10 Questions with Zina Kumok from Debt Free After Three
  • Adventures in Live-In Flipping
  • Ask the Readers: Drama in the 1500 Household!
  • 10 Questions with Above the Canopy
  • Performance Update 45/50: Claw Machine Scheme
  • Ask the Readers: Why FI?
  • Guest Post: Fear of Financial Independence
  • Ask the Readers: Do Others Judge You?
  • 10 Questions with The Biglaw Investor
  • Other Stuff
  • Ask the Readers: Do you ever feel Judgmental about Money?
  • Inflection Points
  • Ask the Readers: Has Money Changed You?
  • 10 Questions with The Roamer from The Traveling Wallet
  • Reader Guest Post: Todd, a Man of Many Hats
  • Performance Update 44/50: The Incredible Power of Uncertainty
  • 10 Questions with Gwen from Fiery Millennials
  • 10 Questions with Finance Superhero
  • Thursday Rant: Burritos, Bankruptcy and Living in Boxes
  • Book Report: The Recovering Spender by Lauren Greutman
  • Ask the Readers: The Trouble with Ambition
  • 10 Questions with New American Dream
  • Sappy Happy Lazy Picture Edition
  • 10 Questions with 60 Minute Finance
  • Ask the Readers: Are You and Your Spouse on the Same Page?
  • 10 Questions with The Retirement Manifesto – August 27
  • 1500 Days: Bringing out the Worst in People since 2013!
  • Ask the Readers: Do You Know What This Is?
  • 10 Questions with Frugal Paradise
  • My Philosophy on Money
  • Ask the Readers: Are you Passionate about your Work?
  • 10 Questions with The Green Swan
  • The Curious and Profitable Side Effects of my Passion
  • Ask the Readers: Should I pay off my Mortgage?
  • 10 Questions with Family Money Plan
  • Performance Update 43/50: Pithy Portentous and Preposterous Pokemon Ponderings
  • 10 Questions with Ben Miller from Fundrise
  • Performance Update 42/50: The FInal Piece of the Puzzle
  • Around the Web
  • Lewd Dudes, Crude Haikus and a Ballyhooed Jimmy C Rendezvous
  • Me and Jimmy C (and a contest!)
  • 10 Questions with Mostly Mindful
  • LIfe Update
  • 10 Questions with Med School Financial
  • My Psychiatric Evaluation with Physician on Fire
  • Ping Pong Machines and Jet Fighter Dreams
  • Ask the Readers: What will your FI Life look Like?
  • 10 Questions with Pauline Paquin
  • Preterpluparenthetical Performance Update 41/50 (Coming clean about my Addiction)
  • Ask the Readers: Tell me about a Ridiculous Purchase
  • 10 Questions with Physician on Fire
  • Random Crap
  • Creativity, Caskets and Fried Green Grasshoppers
  • Ask the Readers: Would you take 5%?
  • Random Rant: Normal Sucks
  • 10 Questions with InvestmentZen
  • Performance Update 40/50: Dumpster Fire Edition
  • Ask the Readers: Are you in Tune with your Body?
  • 10 Questions with The Frugal Vagabond
  • The Joy of DIY
  • 10 Questions with Financially Alert
  • Ask the Readers: Read anything good lately?
  • 10 Questions with the Finance Zombie
  • On bended knee is no way to be free
  • 10 Questions with The Hidden Green
  • $1,120,000! FI!! (and a bad case of Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia)
  • Ask the Readers: What do you Fear?
  • 10 Questions with Mortimer’s Money Machines
  • Buffett’s Beautiful Berky Blurbs
  • Performance Update 39/50: The Price is Wrong
  • Ask the Readers: Do you take FI too Far? (I have)
  • 10 Questions with What Life Could Be
  • Bloggers on the Big Screen
  • Ask the Readers: Where are You going this Year?
  • 10 Questions with Brian from Debt Discipline
  • 10 Guidelines to Financial Independence with Gen Y Finance Guy
  • Ask the Readers: Fuss and Cuss at Dishwashers ‘R’ Us
  • 10 Questions with Freedom 40 Plan
  • Hey you Mr. Debt, stop looking at my Wife’s Butt!
  • Mrs. 1500 Chooses another Man
  • Not Dead, but Defeated by the Dishwasher (for now)
  • Interview on Financially Alert (with bonus cookies!)
  • Back next week
  • 10 Questions with Roadmap2Retire
  • Performance Update 38/50: My Fowl, Angry and Donette free Underwear
  • Anti-Rant (again!): Money Buys Happiness
  • Wednesday Anti-Rant: Frugal Nature versus Frugal Nurture
  • Ask the Readers: What makes you Happy?
  • Ask the Readers: Would anyone NOT do this for $100,000???
  • 10 Questions with Face and Fitness
  • Ask the Readers: Have you kept your Resolutions?
  • 10 Questions with Reaching Our Balance
  • The 5 Stocks You Must Buy NOW!
  • Performance Update 37/50: Why I have pictures of Men on my Boxer Shorts (Caution: pics included!)
  • Ask the Readers: Where do all you Crazy People buy your Clothes???
  • 10 Questions with Maggie Banks from Northern Expenditure
  • The Day I got a 401(k) Tattoo on my…
  • Ask the Readers: What is the Oldest Garment you Own?
  • 10 Questions with Freedom With Bruno
  • Tawcan’s Incredible Travel Plans
  • Ask the Readers: What is the Difference between Frugal and Cheap?
  • 10 Questions with YouCanBeFree123
  • Asset Class Battle Update #3: Embrace the Chaos
  • Ask the Readers: What would you do with $1,300,000,000?
  • 10 Questions with Reluctant Landlord
  • Ask the Readers: What do you have planned for 2016?
  • 10 Questions with Tawcan
  • FrugalWoodstock: Fact or Fiction?
  • My Portfolio: Production from Disruption
  • The Year
  • 10 Questions with Coach Carson
  • Early Retirement Using Real Estate (The Real Story)
  • 10 Questions with Stephanie Halligan from Art to Self
  • Baby 1500 (almost)
  • 10 Questions with The Money Mine
  • Performance Update 35/50: Duplex Dreams, Index Extremes and Cactus Screams
  • 10 Questions with Jim from Wallet Hacks
  • Sappy Happy Crappy Thanksgiving Post
  • 10 Questions with Insider Accountant
  • The Ultimate 1500 Days Holiday Shopping Guide!
  • The Asset Class Battle: Update #2 (My Callipygous Portfolio)
  • Ask the Readers: What posts have you enjoyed?
  • Munger, Allocation, Sheep and Crazy Uncle Larry
  • Ask the Readers: Portfolio Allocation and Flatulation
  • 10 Questions with Someday Extraordinary
  • Performance Update 34/50: Fast Times at Trillionaire High
  • I’m on Even Steven Money today!
  • Thursday Rant: Advice for when you Hate your Wife
  • Ladies, Take Care of Yourselves and Get a Mammogram
  • Ask the Readers: What Inspires You?
  • 10 Questions with Cashville Skyline
  • Thursday Rant: The Multi-Million Dollar Masturbatory Cake
  • Does Money Define You? (A tale of two neighbors)
  • Ask the Readers: How Do You Balance Work and Home?
  • 10 Questions with Andy from Student Loan Hero
  • Thursday Rant: Ruby is Off the Rails
  • 10 Questions with Anything You Want
  • Thursday Rant: 1500 Household Junk Mail Edition
  • Performance Update 33/50: Seussian Stock Market Edition
  • Ask the Readers (Contest Edition): What have you been reading?
  • We’re on the Mad Fientist and Shop My Closet Podcasts!
  • 10 Questions with FI Big Sky
  • Now is the Time
  • Do you still Dream?
  • Ask the Readers: How Much Do You Need?
  • Performance Update 32/50: Playhouse, Piranhas and Cannibals
  • 10 Questions with Dr. Penny Pincher from Penny Pincher Journal
  • Thursday Rant: Why the 4% Rule Won’t Steal Your Spouse or Give You the Clap
  • Nothing lasts Forever
  • 10 Questions with Ridinkulous
  • Thursday Non-Rant: Sunshine Award/Garden Weasel Edition
  • Hermione, Holden and the Best Thing that happened to me Lately
  • 10 Questions with Debtless in Texas
  • Thursday Guest Rant: Points Program Pain with the Debt Free Guys
  • Performance Update 31/50: To $1,000,000,000,000 and Beyond!
  • 10 Questions with Cash Flow Diaries
  • 10 Questions with Jeff from Sustainable Life Blog
  • 10 Questions with Eric at Retire29
  • Thursday Rant: Of Marshmallows and Men
  • Interview on Islands of Investing
  • 10 Questions with Adam Chudy
  • Performance Update 30/50: June Doom!
  • Thursday Rant: One Week is Weak
  • Yo ho, yo ho, an FI life for me!
  • 10 Questions with The Butler Journal
  • Thursday Rant: Hate Mail Edition! (How do you like my Apple?)
  • I’m rich Baby! (And follow your Heart)
  • 10 Questions with the Debt Free Guys
  • 10 Questions with Marcia from Proceed Until Apprehended
  • Performance Update 29/50: A new High in May (Where are the Cheetos?)
  • California Dreamin’
  • 10 Questions with The Mini Millionaire
  • Trains, San Francisco, Yosemite and Buzzballz
  • Performance Update 28/50: April and the Joy of PEX
  • Thursday Rant: The financial media sheep rebleat, rebleat, rebleat.
  • Days ???: My name is Mud* and stinky cheese
  • Days 7-9: Thursday pants
  • Day 6: Mud fest
  • Day 5: The beginning is the end is the beginning
  • Day 4: What the flux?
  • Day 3: Testament to the excellent Element
  • Day 2: Plumbing and puncture wounds
  • Day 1: Bathroom of mass destruction
  • Berkshire, Buffett and bathroom remodeling
  • 10 Questions with Go Curry Cracker!
  • The Mr. 1500 definition of living below your means
  • Ask the Readers: What does living below your means really mean?
  • 10 Questions with The Goblin Chief
  • How I’m investing $275,000: CORRECTION
  • What I did with my $275,000 401(k) rollover
  • Ask the Readers: Lord of the FIs
  • Performance Update 27/50: March badness and saving like a Wookie!
  • Ask the Readers: What do you do when life kicks your ass?
  • 10 New Questions with Planting our Pennies
  • I started a business!
  • Ask the Readers: Slacking Off Edition
  • 10 Questions with Steve from ThinkSaveRetire.com
  • Thursday Rant: My Hate-Hate relationship with mainstream money media
  • Interview with Gangster Collins, Part Three: Blues Brothers, black holes and a book contest
  • Interview with Mr. Collins, Part Two: 50 Shades of FI
  • Ask the Readers: What is the income disparity between you and your significant other?
  • 10 Questions with Flipping a Dollar
  • Thursday Rant: My chunky ass
  • Interview with James Collins from jlcollinsnh, Part One
  • Ask the Readers: What do you look for in a neighborhood or house?
  • Happy Friday: Home remodeling edition
  • No Flaccidity in February: Performance Update 26/50
  • 10 Questions with Simple Cheap Mom
  • Ask the Readers: Where do you live?
  • 10 Questions with James Collins (jlcollinsnh.com)
  • Antiques Roadshow and the sad tale of my grandfather’s death
  • 10 Questions and a Pizza Place with Living Rich Cheaply
  • Thursday non-rant: Home improvement update
  • Guest post: How peer lending fits into my portfolio
  • Ask the Readers: How did your upbringing affect your relationship with money?
  • Thursday Rant: Piloerection Parking Pandemonium
  • Performance Update 25/50: Halfway!
  • 10 questions and a Pizza Place with Mustachian Post
  • Flip your life upside down and you may just live the best life ever
  • Ask the Readers: Do you use a local bank or a chain?
  • 10 Questions and a Pizza Place with Leigh’s Financial Journey
  • Thursday Rant: Push Present Preposterousness
  • Guest posting on Frugalwoods: Frugal friends and where to find them
  • Ask the Readers: Can you recommend a good finance book?
  • The 1500 children drop the F-bomb
  • A Swinging, Banging Side Hustle (yes, this is about adult parties)
  • Ask the Readers: What is the most creative side hustle you have heard of?
  • Weekend Photo Fun
  • Performance Update 24/50: December (with a bonus roadtrip)
  • Ask the Readers: What do you have planned for 2015?
  • Thursday Battle: The 1500 Crappy Christmas Tree Conflict
  • If I had to marry a tool, it would be Tessa the Tile Saw
  • Ask the Readers: What is the best thing that happened to you in 2014?
  • Thursday Rant: Foolish FroYo Frugality
  • Why I threatened to leave my wife for a houseplant
  • 10 Questions with Even Steven Money
  • The Frugalwoods show how to give a great gift
  • Performance Update 23/50: November to Remember
  • Ask the Readers: Does your family do gift-giving for adults?
  • I’ve joined the Double-Comma Club!
  • Thursday Battle: Will the 1500 Cold War lead to Mutually Assured Marriage Destruction?
  • Ask the Readers: What’s your favorite holiday recipe?
  • Extreme Home Improvement Chaos
  • Performance Update 22/50: October asterisk overload edition
  • 10 Questions and a Pizza Place with Root of Good
  • Thursday Rant: Ain’t got time for a rant
  • Why I can’t throw my torn shirt out
  • Ask the Readers: What is your best/worst home repair story?
  • Thursday Rant: Beer cans are not construction materials
  • The soylent experiment was never about the soylent
  • 10 Questions and a Pizza Place with Kapitalust
  • Soylent Update #4: Bacon to the rescue? (and Mrs. 1500 tries it!)
  • Soylent Update #3: Hot sauce is not the answer
  • Soylent Update #2: The Mrs. Strikes Back
  • Soylent: Update 1: The Silence of the Bowels
  • Hacking my body with a foul liquid diet
  • How I Almost got Arrested for Being a Frugal Weirdo
  • Performance Update 21/50: Boring September
  • 10 Questions and a Pizza Place with The Frugalwoods! (and Frugal Hound)
  • Thursday Rant: Disasterous Drivers and Airbnb Adventures
  • Ask the Readers: Do you believe in buying a house?
  • Thursday Rant: Mr. 1500’s Fashion Guide
  • Ask the Readers: Should you pay off your mortgage?
  • 10 Questions and a Pizza Place with FI Fighter
  • Interview with the Frugalsaur
  • Ask the Readers: What do I do about my new neighbor???
  • Blogs I Dig: Richmond Savers
  • Thursday Anti-Rant: Life Ain’t Bad
  • My Favorite Hikes (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Reset My Brain)
  • 10 Questions with My Shiny Nickels
  • Performance Update 20/50: Awesome August
  • 10 Questions and a Pizza Place with Life Part 2
  • Thursday Rant: 1500 Portfolio, Part 3: No Empire Lasts Forever
  • Ask the Readers: How do you plan for health care in early retirement?
  • Thursday Rant: Corn cobbin’ it!
  • 1500 Portfolio, Part 2: Rare Leadership
  • Ask the Reader: Should we rent and flip?
  • 10 Questions and a Pizza Place with My UnhoardED Life
  • 1500 Portfolio, Part 1: Rare Insights
  • Thursday Rant: Frugalsaurus and the American Money Trap
  • Performance Update 19/50: Flying High in July
  • Ask the Reader: The Sky is Falling! Do you care?
  • Ask the Readers: Do you believe in the 4% rule?
  • Ask the Readers: What is your favorite frugal kitchen tip?
  • Sunday Make-Ahead Recipe: Breakfast Burritos
  • Thursday Anti-Rant: Random Happenings and the best Cherry Pie EVER
  • Performance Update 18/50: June Swoon
  • Ask the Readers: Who (else) do you read?
  • 10 Questions and a Pizza Place with No Nonsense Landlord
  • Thursday Rant: The day we almost got kicked out of Disney
  • 5 Tips to Stage a Home on a Budget – A Guest Post from Zillow
  • Ask the Readers: What is your idea of cheap family fun?
  • 10 Questions and a Pizza Place with The FIREstarter
  • Thursday Rant: Caveman Cranium and Saber-Toothed Cats
  • (G)utter Failure
  • 10 Questions and a Pizza Place with Save. Spend. Splurge.
  • Enough
  • 10 Questions and a Pizza Place with Income Surfer
  • Performance Update 17/50: Movin’ on up in May
  • 10 Questions with Sustainable Life Blog
  • Ask the Readers: How and when do you start withdrawing your retirement savings?
  • Performance Update 16/50: April Apathy
  • 10 Questions with the Mad FIentist
  • Berkshire Meeting: Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger speak
  • Ask the Readers: How would you divvy up One Million Dollars?
  • Warren Buffett Wisdom
  • Kitchen Remodel: 5/5
  • Kitchen Remodel: 4/5
  • Kitchen Remodel: 3/5
  • Kitchen Remodel: Day 2/5
  • Kitchen Remodel: Day 1/5
  • Four Day Kitchen Remodel
  • Ask the Readers: What do YOU want to know?
  • Thursday Rant: Spendy Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Performance Update 15/50: March Crapness
  • Ask the Readers: How do you keep track of your spending?
  • How to Kick Ass at Work
  • Ask the Readers: Would you invest in a local business?
  • 10 Questions and a Pizza Place with Rockstar Finance
  • Thursday Anti-Rant: I Passed!!!!
  • Ask the Readers: Do you have any good vegetarian recipes?
  • Thursday Rant: A tale of two homes
  • Performance Update 14/50: Flying in February
  • Thursday Rant: Wind Chill Whiners
  • Ask the Readers: Are you a landlord?
  • Thursday Rant: I suck
  • Thursday Anti-Rant: The Wisdom of Dr. Seuss
  • Get a Chromebook
  • Ask the Readers: How big do you celebrate Valentine’s Day?
  • Performance Update 13/50: January Meltdown
  • Ask the Readers: How did you do ~ Are you ready for Round Two?
  • 10 Questions with Jon from MoneySmartGuides
  • Ask the Readers: What was your College Major?
  • Thursday Rant: More Stuff, Less Time
  • Delay of Gratification Pretzel Experimentation
  • Ask the Readers: Is it OK to give used gifts?
  • 10 Questions with Getting a Rich Life
  • Thursday Rant: A King needs Your Help
  • Ask the Readers: What are your 2014 goals?
  • Blogs I Dig: The Mad Fientist
  • Thursday Rant: Why I fired Mr. Buttcrack Builder and how you can avoid him
  • Performance Update 12/50: December and 2013
  • Thursday Rant – How the Grinch Stole My Christmas Spirit
  • 2013 is in the Can
  • Ask the Readers: Are You Ready for a Challenge?
  • The Velveteen Pufferfish
  • Me Versus the Trees (and one reason why I appreciate my wife)
  • Ask the Readers: Are you a do-it-yourselfer?
  • Thursday Rant: Shortest Books Ever Written
  • Must we Dance with Death to Appreciate Life?
  • Thursday Rant: Tell me what you want for Christmas!
  • Performance Update 11 of 50: November Wane and Book Drones
  • Ask the Readers: How do you handle Christmas Gifts?
  • Happy Thanksgiving from Daughter 1500
  • The Day I Struck Dishwasher Gold
  • Ask the Readers: Would you Airbnb your House?
  • A Hike Teaches me How to Live
  • Ask the Readers: What is your favorite, out-of-the-house, frugal family fun activity?
  • Sunday Make Ahead Recipe: Aunt Beulah’s Granola
  • Ask the Readers: What is your favorite frugal travel tip?
  • Thursday Rant: Workout Edition
  • Performance Update 10 of 50: October
  • Ask the Readers: A Black Swan this Way Comes. What do you do?
  • Thursday Anti-Rant: Show me the World
  • You are Doomed (almost) by Your 30 Minute Brain
  • Sunday Make Ahead Recipe: Italian Chicken
  • Thursday Rant: Solid Gold $hit
  • Customer Service is Dead!!!
  • Ask the Readers: To Debt or not to Debt… (or Mortgage or no Mortgage)
  • College Conundrum
  • Ask the Readers: Would you try Soylent?
  • Thursday Rant: Quick Hits, Travel Edition
  • Sunday Make Ahead Recipe: Chocolate Drops of Joy
  • Thursday Rant: The 1500’s have the Drone! (and Dinobots)
  • Performance Update 9 of 50: Super September
  • Ask the (Single) Reader: Do you ever go Dutch?
  • Sunday Make-Ahead Recipe: Ranch Chicken
  • Thursday Rant: We live in Butt Crack City
  • Death by Retirement
  • Ask the Readers: Would you buy Dead Harold’s house?
  • Thursday Rant: I HATE YOU RAIN!!
  • SUCCESS!!! (and Sir Silly Sock Sweatband Head)
  • Ask the Readers: Do you spend or save your coins?
  • Sunday Make-Ahead Recipe: Stuffed Peppers
  • Mo Rain, Mo Problems
  • Thursday Rant Rained Out
  • Uglyhouse Unglues our Sanity just a Bit
  • Ask the Readers: What is your financial goal?
  • Sunday Make-Ahead Recipe: Taco Chicken
  • Thursday Anti-Rant: Life is Still Good
  • Performance Update 8 of 50: August Appreciation
  • Ask the Readers: What do you think about minimum wage?
  • Sunday Make Ahead Recipe: Meatballs
  • Thursday Rant: Crazy People, Birds and Fish
  • Side Hustle Spotlight: Flipping Furniture with A Young Pro
  • Ask the Readers: Do you repackage your food?
  • 10 Questions with Buck from Bucking the Trend
  • Thursday Anti-Rant: Think Happy Thoughts
  • Ask the Readers: What was your worst job?
  • Luke Poopwalker: The Bowels Strike Back
  • Performance Update 7 of 50: Oh my, July!
  • Every Little Bit Helps
  • Thursday Rant: Dracula’s $3,000 Steampunk Stroller
  • Side Hustle Spotlight: Profiting on Property with Planting Our Pennies
  • Ask the Readers: Do you ever Leave a Penny?
  • RAGBRAI: Days 2-7
  • RAGBRAI: Day 1
  • WTF Part 2: Dismal 401(k)s call for Desperate Measures
  • Ask the Readers: What is your Side Hustle?
  • 10 Questions and a Pizza Place with Dividend Ladder
  • Thursday Rant: Leave RAGBRAI alone, Lance!
  • Big Huge WTF!!!
  • Ask the Readers: Do you collect aluminum cans?
  • Performance Update 6 of 50: June Boom!
  • Thursday Anti-Rant: Life is Great!
  • What we look for in a House
  • Ask the Readers: What is your Criteria for Donations?
  • Thursday Rant: Hoarding Madness!!
  • Guest Post: Mrs. Herb from Herb on Herbs – Saving money by cooking at home
  • Ask the Readers: Do you approve of regifting?
  • Movin’ on Down
  • Ask the Readers: Garage Sale or Thrift Store?
  • Hiking!
  • Thursday Rant: An Update on my Wasteful Neighbors
  • Happily losing $13,000
  • Thursday Rant: Crapdance!
  • The Titanic and Your Retirement
  • Performance Update 5 of 50: May!
  • Thursday Rant: Mrs. 1500’s Quick Hits
  • Ask the Readers: When do you Talk about Money in a Relationship?
  • You should be reading Herb on Herbs
  • Ducks! Ducks!! Ducks!!!
  • My Weekend with Warren Buffett, Part 3
  • Ask the Readers: What would you do if you held the sole winning ticket?
  • Thursday Rant: Three Ridiculous Retirees
  • My Weekend with Warren Buffett, Part 2
  • Ask the Readers: What is your grocery budget?
  • My Weekend with Warren Buffett, Part 1
  • Ask the Readers: Who do you love?
  • Performance Update 4 of 50: Awesome April!
  • Thursday Rant: Quick Hits and More Banana Madness
  • The Tale of Bad Car Bill
  • Ask the Readers: What do you spend money on?
  • 10 Questions with Jen from JenSpends
  • Thursday Rant: Rocky Mountain Turd Wranglers*
  • When I grow up, I want to be a Banana!
  • Ask the Readers: What is an acceptable Profit on eBay
  • Thursday Rant: Paying $450 to look like a Fool!
  • I don’t want Fries with my Retirement
  • Guest Posts from Last Week
  • The Silly Price of Status
  • 10 Questions with Planting our Pennies
  • Thursday Rant: $40 at the Salon, but no hair cut?!?
  • 100 Pushups and 10 Pounds
  • 5 Super Awesome Frugal Tips
  • Performance Update 3 of 50: First Quarter is in the Bag
  • Sex, Limes and Financial Education
  • Thursday Rant: Why can’t I get through?
  • Net Worth of $160,000,000 and Working in Food Service
  • Apple’s real enemy isn’t Samsung
  • Lending Club verses Prosper
  • 10 Questions and Pizza with Mr. 1500
  • Thursday Rant: I want Smarties Cereal!
  • Required Reading: Warren Buffett Wisdom in the Annual Letter
  • Performance Update 2 of 50: Falling in February
  • Thursday Rant: The $260 Lunch Bag; Has Society gone Mad?!?
  • The Magical Doubling Penny
  • Lending Club Update #2
  • Thursday Rant: “Do caterpillars fart?”
  • Taxing the Big Spenders – Looking at Things in a Different Way
  • Hitting the Open Road, 1500 Style
  • You Don’t Have to Make $100,000 a Year to Retire Early
  • Performance Update 1 of 50: Stinky January
  • Thursday Rant: No Nice Car, no Wife for You Mr. 1500!
  • Friday Night Pizza Night Done Right
  • Thursday Rant: The Lottery is my Retirement Plan
  • Lending Club Performance Update
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My goal was to build a portfolio of $1,000,000 by February of 2017; 1500 days from the birth of this blog (January 1, 2013). And hey look, I’ve since retired!

Investments only (primary home excluded)
1/1/13 (The Start): $586,043
1/1/14 (1 Yr Later): $869,635
1/1/15 (2 Yrs Later): $987,351
1/1/16 (3 Yrs Later): $1,057,961
1/1/17 (4 Yrs Later): $1,257,128
1/1/18 (5 Yrs Later): $1,527,701
1/1/19 (6 Yrs Later): $1,549,440
1/1/20 (7 Yrs Later): $2,035,040*
1/1/21 (8 Yrs Later): $3,379,746**
1/1/22 (9 Yrs Later): $4,762,642
1/1/23 (10 Yrs Later): $3,112,821
1/1/24 (11 Yrs Later): $4,562,750
1/1/25 (12 Yrs Later): $6,060,794
1/1/26 (13 Yrs Later): $8,135,505

2026: Investments only
1/1: $8,135,505
2/1: $8,123,356

Gains (since 1/1/2026): -$12,149

Overall
Gains since 1/1/2013: $7,537,313
Net worth***: $8,523,356

* The big jump between 2019 and 2020 was partly because we bought another home, but kept the previous (much more expensive) one as a rental and started counting it as an investment. We have since sold it.

** Tesla.

*** Includes our primary home equity in addition to our investment portfolio.

Finally, we still have about $290,000 in mortgage debt (which I love!). No regrets about the debts!

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