Like anything, reaching the goal of early retirement starts with a choice to start seriously planning toward it. In sequence, picking a retirement age to shoot for is the first of one’s MILESTONES toward a life of financial independence and retiring early. This is the starting point at which you start hatching a financial plan and start making decisions to focus on it. For us, … Continue reading FIRE Milestones – Picking An Early Retirement Age
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It’s easy to look back on all of the money you’ve made over the years and wonder “Where did the money go?” It’s a common thought – that we have squandered years of toil and trouble at work, and now have very little to show for it. But is that true? Do we really have nothing to show for (in my case) almost 27 years … Continue reading Where Did The Money Go? – Reader Challenge
I’ve probably been talking about early retirement for about as long as I have been gainfully employed. When I started first working after college, one of my older brothers pointed out that my starting two weeks paid vacation amounted to only 1 year off for every 26 years worked. That got me thinking right away about saving enough to retire BEFORE I hit the 26 … Continue reading FIRE Milestones – Sharing Plans with Friends & Family
If you can’t find time for fitness in early retirement, when will you find time? Increased fitness is a benefit that most people report when they leave the workforce. It is certainly one of my key goals when I reach early retirement later this year. How about you? Will you be fitter or fatter? Image Credit: Pixabay; MrFireStation.com Continue reading FIRE Station Fun – Finding Time
This is the time that I have been looking forward to for the past 10+ years. The timeline of our countdown to reach FIRE – financial independence & retiring early – has gotten very short. Just 85 days short. I have known for a long time that once I got to the end of 2015, I would be so close to early retirement, that I could completely … Continue reading Early Retirement FIRE Escape – 3 Months To Go!
I don’t tend to be a person who focuses too much on New Year’s Resolutions. I do like the idea of setting self-improvement goals – and New Year’s is as good a time to adopt them as any time of the year – but I tend to adopt goals in more of a catch-as-can manner throughout the year than lining up a whole slew of … Continue reading New Year’s & Early Retirement Goals
Happy New Year, Everyone! Thank you all for your support in our journey to early retirement and this blog, which I launched 12 months ago. It has grown to almost 200 followers/fans, 1000 visitors in 2015, and 5,000 views. I appreciate your interest, “likes”, and comments. Here are the Top Ten most read MrFireStation posts of 2015 … Work One More Year As A Gift … Continue reading Top Posts 2015 – Happy New Year!
I have been (mostly) out of the office over for the Christmas & New Year’s holidays and thinking about the permanent vacation I am planning on embarking on in just a few months. As such, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I have been spending my days as you could think of these two weeks as a bit of early retirement “practice”. Here are … Continue reading “Practice” Early Retirement Days
Nine months ago, my wife and I started our “One More Year” fund. I’m working the last year of my career with all of the paychecks going into a charitable giving fund. It will be given away in the first few years of our early retirement. Since then, I’ve written about two famous people who also worked purely for charity: Ben Franklin as Governor of … Continue reading Beckham – Played Final Season For Charity
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