With December being the “Giving” month, I thought folks might be interested in the backstory behind how we started on our “One More Year” giving fund. Earlier this year, we pledged to save all of our paychecks over our final year of work to give away in early retirement to charity. The story started in March, when our family watched a powerful independent film called … Continue reading “One More Year” Giving Fund
How does your company’s annual Year-End / Holiday Office Party stack up? Check out this POST about how America celebrates the holidays in the workplace. Image Credit: Pixabay; MrFireStation.com Continue reading FIRE Station Fun – The Big Man
‘Tis the season for the venerable holiday office party. While December is a busy month at most companies with year-end looming, it is also a time to raise a glass of good cheer with your colleagues. Folks at my MegaCorp are happily looking forward to the New Year. There has not been much too celebrate lately with job layoffs, budget cuts and other unpleasantness spoiling … Continue reading Holiday Office Party – Mad Men or MegaCorp?
While I definitely have been making quite detailed plans for what I would like to do in retirement, I am finding it much more fun just to say “My plans? – to do as little as possible.” It’s a bit flip, but I’d rather not make it seem like I have this whole thing figured out, when I don’t. In fact, when people … Continue reading No Plans For Early Retirement?
How do your Holiday shopping habits compare to the average American household? Click on LINK here to find out! Image Credit: MrFireStation.com Continue reading FIRE Station Fun – Old Time Christmas
November has come and gone and now we are into the holiday season. I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving break and are reasonably well prepared for the festive rush toward Christmas. While many people consider November a bit of a melancholy month, I enjoy the peace and calm that it brings. In the northern USA, the month has (in my mind) a beautiful palate of … Continue reading Early Retirement FIRE Escape – 4 Months Left
With the holidays upon us, I ran across studies from the American Research Group, US News & World Report, and the National Retail Federation that look at planned Christmas gift spending for 2015. I was surprised by many of the numbers from the studies and compared it to our own holiday shopping habits at the Fire Station. 55% of Americans went holiday shopping on Thanksgiving Weekend … Continue reading Christmas Shopping By The Numbers
Click HERE to understand how four simple words saved us THOUSANDS. Image Credit: MrFireStation.com Continue reading FIRE Station Fun – Black Friday
Today is my first day out of the office for the long Thanksgiving weekend. Since it is also the last Thanksgiving before my early retirement in 2016, I thought maybe I would reflect on the things I am THANKFUL for in my 27 year career: STARTING OUT I’m thankful I skipped a baseball game that I had tickets to one afternoon when I was in … Continue reading Giving Thanks At The Office
The “Sunday Blues” are the dreadful feelings that emerge late in the weekend when your mind starts to turn to the beginning of a new work week. This weekly mini depression is the return of the performance anxiety we live with at school or on the job that is temporarily lifted over the weekend, holidays, or on vacation. You could say the Sunday Blues are … Continue reading Not Singing The Sunday Blues
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