Archive for November, 2008
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Five Thoughts To My Future Children…
I got the latest edition of Money Magazine yesterday, and Pat Regnier in his The Bottom Line column used the letter to his children as a literary device. It’s not unique (I’ve even written a letter to my high school self in the past), but nonetheless, I thought the idea was worth stealing flattering Mr. [...]
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How $100 Could Save Your Child’s Life
Regular readers know that I have an affinity for professional football. Sometimes I take it much too seriously. I’m not proud of it, but that’s why they call us fanatics, right? Every Monday, one of my favorite writers, Peter King, comes out with an article about all the happenings around the NFL. On a day, [...]
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Alternative Income Streams – November 2008
Due to my early retirement series (which seemed to go over like a lead balloon I think) last week, I’m late in delivering my alternative income report that I usually deliver the first of the month. This month I saw a small downturn in advertising. Some forms of advertising are going away completely while other [...]
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Military: Free Applebee’s Tonight… Maybe…
UPDATE: I want to take a minute and thank Patrick Lenow, Executive Director, Communications of DineEquity, Inc. (parent company of Applebee’s), for commenting and setting the record straight about this promotion being a trial. This post probably reflected some portion of my feeling that the sour grapes of seeing one city having 3 restaurants to [...]
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Lazy Man Politics Policy (and personal finance links)
You may have noticed that I didn’t mention much about politics in the last few weeks. My reasoning for this isn’t that it doesn’t effect your personal finances. It’s just that I believe people can be financially successful in any kind political environment in the United States. I hear a lot about one candidate’s tax [...]
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Our Early Retirement Plan: Motivation, Numbers & Tools, and Conclusion (Part 5)
If you are just starting this, I suggest you start at The Introduction – Part 0. Alternatively, you can jump to Our Early Retirement Plan: Where We Are Now (Part 1), Our Early Retirement Plan: My Personal Income (Part 2), Our Early Retirement Plan: My Wife’s Plan (Part 3), or Our Early Retirement Plan: Obstacles [...]
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Our Early Retirement Plan: Obstacles and Expenses (Part 4)
If you are just starting this, I suggest you start at The Introduction – Part 0. Alternatively, you can jump to Our Early Retirement Plan: Where We Are Now (Part 1), Our Early Retirement Plan: My Personal Income (Part 2), or Our Early Retirement Plan: My Wife’s Plan (Part 3). In part 2, I explained [...]
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Our Early Retirement Plan: My Wife’s Plan (Part 3)
If you are just starting this, I suggest you start at The Introduction – Part 0. Alternatively, you can jump to Our Early Retirement Plan: Where We Are Now (Part 1) or Our Early Retirement Plan: My Personal Income (Part 2). Before I start, I should come clean. I’m going to be putting some words [...]
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Our Early Retirement Plan: My Personal Income (Part 2)
If you are just starting this, I suggest you start at The Introduction – Part 0. Alternatively, you can jump to Our Early Retirement Plan: Where We Are Now (Part 1). My income and my wife’s income are dramatically different from most people. I don’t have a 9-5 job. Yesterday I mentioned how I make [...]
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Our Early Retirement Plan: Where We Are Now (Part 1)
If you are just starting this, I suggest you start at The Introduction – Part 0 You can’t figure out where you are going if you don’t know where you are… My wife and I are each 32 years old. To some degree our finances are separate – we never felt the need to combine [...]
