I bought the house that I’m currently living in for $183,000 just over five years ago. It’s a big bungalow with 5 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms and 2 upstairs living areas as well as a full basement. This is much bigger than the three of us that live here need and significantly bigger than ...
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Want to Retire or Make a Ton of Money? Focus on Effort, not Outcomes
The most important move I made in my journey to retirement was to focus on effort, not outcomes. Effort is controllable. Outcomes? Not so much.Six years ago, when I really got serious about wanting to retire – moving it from a pipe dream to practical action – I stopped planning the details of how ...
Home renovating – a tool to retire
We all have to live somewhere. Some people live in apartments, some rent and some live in RV’s (Jacob at Early Retirement Extreme). If you’re interested in retiring early or simply making more (non-taxable!) income, one of the ways to do that is to buy a fixer-upper. Here’s my 4 step process for ...
Quarter end report – Q1 2010
My background is in accounting and my “specialty” is corporate reporting for public companies. One thing that all public companies do is report their financials on a quarterly basis and file them with the various stock exchanges that they’re listed on so that investors can see where they’re at. There’s sometimes a mad scramble ...
On Greed
Nobel prize winner in Economics – Milton Friedman – ...
What if I didn’t LBYM?
Over the last few years I’ve made a lot of money. I’ve also saved a lot of money. One of the things that I was curious about was what I would have done with all that money if I wasn’t fairly cheap and had spent it all.How does a person who makes $250k a ...
10 years to retirement out of university
Barring ugly student loan balances, I think anyone should be able to go from graduating university to retirement or semi-retirement in 10 years. Or doing what you love and not having to make money off it which is a worthy goal as well. Many people make the mistake of trying to make ...
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