Sometimes there's an inverse relationship between how much you spend and how much fun you have. Sometimes there's a direct relationship between how little you spend and how cold it is. We didn't go downhill skiing over the February long weekend because it was too cold. I was really looking forward to spending that money damnit. On ...
Category Archives: financial independence
Should I stay or should I go?
Scarlett OHara was not beautiful but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were... I first read Gone With the Wind when I was 5 years old. By the time I was 6, I had read the book 13 ...
Random ramblings and questions
Some random questions that have been floating around in my head today... Why do people who say they're retired (or financially independent) accept money for anything? Jacob at ERE had a post on this some time ago. His explanation didn't make any sense to me then and it still doesn't make any sense to me. If I ...
You’re owned – or not
I was talking with a guy in the coffee room at work this morning. He revealed that he's kind of worried about being laid off in a couple of weeks since the market isn't great for his job right now, but more pissed off ...
Happy anniversary!
It's been one year since I've been blogging on this blog - and 155 posts, so there's one anniversary. More importantly, I've been out of debt for 10 years (apart from mortgage debt) and a very, very brief period of using my line of credit when I bought my motorhome and didn't want to cash in ...
I can haz valuez?
see more Lolcats and funny pictures"> Yez iz two. And he dizapprovez of yer life. Valuez... er... Values are so important in acceptance of ourselves as ...
The biggest problem with thinking you don’t need much money
Having spent most of my adult life in a pattern of underearning, I wish it was a topic that more people talked and wrote about because it's a soul crushing state to be in with a relatively easy solution. When you think you don't need much money to get by - guess what? You won't earn ...