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 above water.Mrs. 1500 and I did the two-kids-two-jobs dance for a short period of time and it was … [Read more...] about Honey, We Bought A Coworking Space
Early Retirement
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, cleaned and looked after our child. We were in the middle of a fix-and-flip, so I did most … [Read more...] about Trading Places (Becoming Mr. Mom)
10 Questions With Reader Jake
Why did you start your blog?I started a blog because I thought there needed to be one more voice in the 476,492,292,928 others that were already out there. I realized I enjoyed writing once I started it and got on a roll. About eight months in, I realized that people were being fired from their jobs for putting their opinions and views on social media. That worried me, … [Read more...] about 10 Questions With Reader Jake
Phoenix Rising
One issue that I have with the FIRE blogger community is we often live in a reality distortion field. Our biases cause us to eagerly report the positive and ignore the negative. I see it in myself. I'm much more eager to publish my Performance Updates when I've had a good month. Not so much for the bad ones.But the negative is important too. Perhaps more important. The … [Read more...] about Phoenix Rising
10 Questions With Aardvark Advisor
Today's 10 Questions features Aardvark Advisor. I met Mr. Aardvark at Camp FI in Florida and greatly enjoyed talking to him and his wife. They are sharp folks. However, I must comment on two of Mr. A's (I'm sick of spelling out that whole animal name) answers:Mr. A said that if he could be a dinosaur, it would be a pterodactyl. I'm sorry Mr. A, but a pterodactyl isn't a … [Read more...] about 10 Questions With Aardvark Advisor