I will share here what I went through deciding whether to go with Mint or Personal Capital. And why do I even keep one of them…
Tag: FIRE
The Seven Dwarfs of Early Retirement
Snow White had a lot to put up with (besides the Witch and the Prince) in this German folk story chronicled by the Brothers Grimm and brought to most of us by a Disney film from 1937 (80 years!)
(In order of appearance:)
Continue reading “The Seven Dwarfs of Early Retirement”I am on Fiverr.com…
…And sometimes I wonder why.
Anywho. I mostly do Excel gigs on Fiverr. Ah, by the way, Fiverr.com is a website and marketplace where freelancers showcase the “gigs” they are prepared to work on. There is some literature about Fiverr on Amazon. You can check what I offer on the top menu on this blog under “Services”, the submenu links to some of the gigs (and clicking “Services” links to my profile on Fiverr).
Your money or your life (book review)
Just finished reading “Your Money or Your Life” (1992), by Joe Dominguez and Vicky Robin:
I first heard of the book last year from the Mr. Money Mustache site
Dilbert’s nine-points financial plan, revised for early retirees
Years ago Scott Adams, author of the Dilbert cartoon, was thinking about writing a book on personal finance. When he was doing the research for his book he realized that all one needed to know and do to stay in financial shape actually fit in one page. Only nine things. The plans for the book fell through (because, reportedly, no publisher was willing to endorse a one-page book) so he weaseled-in his immortal plan into this other multi-page book:
I read his 9-point plan years ago and just reviewed it to “sanity check” my plans and to see if they added anything to someone pursuing financial independence (FI), someone like me.
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