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Mile High FI: J. Money

January 5, 2022 by Mr. 1500 Days 3 Comments

Budgets Are Sexy was one of the first blogs I discovered when I started my blogging journey. At the time, the author of the blog was J. Money, a mysterious dude who sported strange hair.

I liked J. Money’s style. He wasn’t afraid to write about taboo topics like working as a phone sex operator. He also had a unique voice that wouldn’t have gotten him a gig at the Wall Street Journal but was highly entertaining.

In a lot of ways, J’s writing style informed mine. I didn’t have to be prim and proper. I could talk about whatever I wanted to talk about. I could just be me. Hence dinosaurs!

And there was something else I liked about J, his charitable work. For those of us who have made it, giving back seems like the next step:

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  3. Save lots of money.
  4. Quit work.
  5. Realize that you’ve saved too much.
  6. Give others who are less fortunate a lift.

I was happy to be able to talk to J about charitable giving and more on a recent Mile High FI episode. Listen:

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  1. steveark says

    January 5, 2022 at 7:43 am

    J is the bomb! One of the coolest things about this community is that it is diverse. You’ve got university professors and medical doctors and retired city street department people and military members and heavy metal rockers and children’s book writers all having polite and warm discussions about how to tame money and let it work for you. J. Money is poles apart from someone like me in my mid-sixties, conservative, engineering background, country music fan, yet he’s taught me a lot about the financial aspects of life. I’ve never met him but he feels like a friend because I’ve listened to him for so many hours.

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    • Mr. 1500 Days says

      January 5, 2022 at 12:52 pm

      This may be my favorite comment of all time.

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      • J. Money says

        June 2, 2022 at 2:53 pm

        I second that!

        Always connecting with your thoughts/stories too, Steve – even though we’re so different..

        Gotta love our community here! Appreciate the kind words!

        -J$

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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

2023: Investments only
1/1: $3,112,821
2/1: $3,582,368
3/1: $3,716,852
4/1: $3,861,599
5/1: $3,694,445
6/1: $4,089,141
7/1: $4,384,858
8/1: $4,539,865
9/1: $4,468,622

Gains: $1,355,801

Overall
Gains since 1/1/2013: $3,882,579
Net worth***: $4,698,622

* 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. 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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