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Done Detoxing
Fun Fact: No matter how appropriate it is, quoting Socrates on your blog makes you look like a total dorkmaster. There’s this period of transition between full time employment and being settled in your...
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DoomBook
If my blogging alter-ego had a FB page, it’d look like this. I’m not a huge fan of blogs or Facebook pages that show the rosiness of peoples’ lives and nothing else. And I’ve stated many, many times in...
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Home Ownership: A Retrospective and Beyond
My wife and sold our home in early 2015, and we did it mostly to enable us to comfortably quit our jobs. Although it’s a normal thing for people to downsize, it is most decidedly not typical for...
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2015 Spending Postmortem
I wish it were this easy to run the yearly numbers. I haven’t done one of these types of posts in a while but I feel it’s worthwhile to capture our spending picture for 2015. The numbers this year are...
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About Blogging…
The lobstered gauntlets come off prior to settling in at the keyboard Fact: Virtually everyone individual who runs a blog eventually writes meta-articles on what it’s like to author one, how things...
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Definitely Not Purpose
Disclaimer. Yet again, there’s no talk of finances in this one. Instead I’m discussing some of my post-working life in a very casual, journal-y way. Additional warning: It’s intensely personal....
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A Return to Work
Well, it’s not a return exactly. Not in the ordinary sense of the word. What I’ve actually been doing is reading some of my old anger diary entries. This feels like entering a time warp leading back...
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Early Retirement Bites
I’ve made a terrible mistake! I quit my job about a year ago. My last day was April 17th, 2015, to be exact. At this point I’ve got close to twelve full months of my new life under my belt. That’s...
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Obamacare’s Uncertain Future and The Impact on Early Retirement Planning
Full quote: “When we win on Nov 8 and elect a Republican Congress, we will immediately repeal and replace Obamacare. ” Made during many, many speeches, a tremendous number of huge speeches, the very...
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The 2021 Early-Retirement Update
I’ve had a difficult time finding a way to create a new entry on a blog that has essentially been dead since 2015. Yet, I have had a persistent feeling that I owe my readers an update. Consider this...
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