Happy Friday, lovely people! Today I’m going to talk to you about volunteering and how awesome it is. And by awesome, I really mean ... Inconvenient, thankless, frustrating, gritty, and a total pain in the ass! (But then somehow if you grit through all of this, that’s when the awesome and wickedly satisfying bits come in 😀.) I’ve been volunteering for
WTF Is an NFT?
Odds are you’ve seen the letters “NFT” floating around in financial and tech news for the past few months. And if you’re like me you’re totally confused about all this NFT and crypto art stuff. So I reached out to my smartest blogger friend, Jesse from Best Interest, who has a gift for breaking down complex topics and explaining them in layman's terms. Jesse explains the NFT
Net Worth Report “Lucky #7” and FREE Finance Course!
Happy Friday, y’all! Before I share net worth numbers, I have 2 exciting things … FREE Finance Course From Rebel Finance School Last year my friends Katie and Alan Donegan ran a virtual finance course — for FREE — to help people take control of their finances. And they’ve just announced it’s happening again, and for FREE again! The course is 10 Zoom calls over 10
2 Big Differences Between Successful and Unsuccessful Investors
I have a friend who is a cryptocurrency millionaire. Woohoo! ...But another friend has LOST thousands of dollars messing with crypto. ☹️ I know a couple who made more than $1 million dollars on GameStop stock. Crazy! 😳 ...But I also know that many people LOST large chunks of money trading GameStop during the recent wallstreetbets fandango.
FIRE Lessons From the Jamaican Bobsled Team
One side effect of being a FIRE blogger is that money is always on your brain. Everywhere you look, you see personal finance topics and come up with weird analogies and concepts. So, I was watching Cool Runnings the other day with my wife. It’s a favorite movie of ours (and probably one of the raddest things that came out of the ‘90s, if I may say so). If you haven’t seen
Retired at 43: “No Gambling, No Lotteries, No Bitcoin”
Hey, everyone! We got a comment on the million dollar club page a while back that I thought was pretty interesting … so I dug a little deeper and found a cool story to share. Below is the original note, followed by my nosy questions and the replies (with edits for length and clarity). Great tips and information here that might help you on your own path to hitting
Sexy for All the Wrong Reasons
You’ve probably forgotten about this, but when you signed up for this Budgets newsletter, you were asked, “How did you come across this blog?” All the answers get emailed to me, and I read them to learn how people find the website. The most common replies are things like, “I was searching for free budget templates” or “I heard about your blog from xyz podcast.” Not
2020 Review and ROI of My Rental Duplex
Hey there, money nerds! How’s your 2020 tax return going? Who else out there besides me gets turned on by a long 1040 Form, multiple 1099-MISC’s, sexy AGI, and itemizing deductions for their MFJ status? (and who has no clue what the heck I’m even talking about? → don’t worry, that’s what H&R Block is for!) Anyway, I just received my annual Profit and Loss Statement
Money, Morals, and Decisions on the Path to FIRE
My friend hit me up with an interesting dilemma the other day. It’s one of those money vs. moral problems, and I think many of us can relate... “I accepted an offer from [new job] yesterday with a $20K sign-on bonus!... and it’s much more closely aligned with my passion than my current job. Now, I just have to figure out the best thing to do as far as my transition. I'm
Richard Branson, Over-Sharing, and How to Talk About FIRE
One day, back in his early 20s, Richard Branson was at a conference table meeting with some investors. He was about to sell one of his first businesses, Student Magazine, and this meeting was to finalize the deal. As part of the terms, Branson was also planning to join their company to help transition the business to the new owners. Everyone was excited about the new
