Nine months left and everything is still on track. This post officially marks the 9 month point in my countdown to FIRE – being financially independent and retired early. My FIRE escape date is planned for April 1, 2016 – just a few weeks before my 50th birthday. Each month I’ve been counting down the activities that are getting me prepared. The overall stock market … Continue reading Early Retirement FIRE Escape – 9 Month Countdown
I’ve written about my “count down obsession” before – thinking about good ways to count down my final year at MegaCorp. I’ve also showed you pictures of my hidden countdown Post-it Flag system that is in the credenza above my desk at work. Like a kid counting down the days to next Christmas, I find my mind wandering several times a day to “how many … Continue reading FIRE Countdown Obsession – As Presented
I received a bottle of Dom Perignon Champagne (2000 vintage) almost 15 years ago and have left it corked in its original box since the day I received it. It was a gift in celebration for a particularly good year at MegaCorp, and I brought it home and put it in our pantry. It’s in its original box on its side, which is supposed to … Continue reading Champagne Standing By
The Pew Research Center recently published an article focused on how Millennials have now passed Boomers and Gen X in the workforce. I was born in 1966, so I am a Gen X-er, who has always felt quite stuck between these two groups. If you look at the chart from Pew that I copied above, Gen X only had its day in the sun for … Continue reading Gen X – Stuck Between Boomers & Millennials
Today is the last day of the school year for my son. He usually drives to school, but today we went out for breakfast and I dropped him off. I’ll pick him up just after noon, when his last final is over. It’s fun to be at school when the kids come streaming out on the last day of the year. Pure joy. It will … Continue reading End Of The School Year – Milestones
Ten months left. This post marks the 10 month point in my countdown to FIRE – being financially independent and retired early. My FIRE escape date is planned for April 1, 2016 – just a few weeks before my 50th birthday. Each month I’ve been counting down the activities that are getting me prepared. This month’s headline is that the overall stock market continues to … Continue reading Early Retirement FIRE Escape – 10 Month Countdown
I always joke when someone is leaving from my team at MegaCorp that they shouldn’t “steal our pencils!” It’s just a funny way to acknowledge an ugly side of the workplace – that people sometimes take more than their last paycheck with them when they go. This article from a radio station in Texas (KNIN Radio) says that office supply theft is about $3.2B a … Continue reading Early Retirement – Don’t Steal The Pencils!
This post marks the 11 month point in my countdown to FIRE – being financially independent and retired early. My FIRE escape date is planned for April 1, 2016 – just a few weeks before my 50th birthday. Each month I’ve been counting down the activities that are getting me prepared. This month’s headline is that our nest egg held the terrific gains that we … Continue reading Early Retirement FIRE Escape – 11 Month Countdown
I recently wrote about possible ways to countdown my last year to early retirement. I had gotten a lot of great ideas online and shared them in this post. Since it’s a couple of weeks later, I thought I would share a couple of the approaches I adopted. First, I made 52 tags out of Post-it Flags and hung them up in a colorful way … Continue reading Countdown to Early Retirement – Post-it Flags
I posted on a couple of early retirement sites last week to see what advice folks might have for me in my final year of work before leaving work for good. I didn’t get a lot of responses, but the advice was motivating since it came from folks that have already reached FIRE (financial independence & retired early). My DW and I have gotten to … Continue reading 7 Ways to Countdown to Early Retirement
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