Archive for the ‘Retirement’ Category
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SEP IRA: Self-Employed Retirement Plans
Are you self-employed and looking to retire someday? I am. Since this website brings in a little income, it qualifies as a small business. Additionally, I contract for some other companies, which also counts as small business income. The life of a contractor is often one without a 401k. [...]
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Money’s 7 New Rules of Financial Security (Part 2)
I’m reviewing Money Magazine’s 7 New Rules of Financial Security. You can read Part 1 here.
Rule No. 4: BorrowingOld thinking: Borrowing sensibly is a good way to build wealth.
New rule: Borrow cautiously. You have to worry about the other guy’s debt too.Money Summary: Credit was cheap and plentiful like food at [...]
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Money’s 7 New Rules of Financial Security (Part 1)
Money Magazine’s big headline this month is the 7 New Rules of Financial Security… and Why You Need to Know Them. I have to admit it’s a pretty sweet headline – it certainly caught my eye. I flipped right to page 50 to see what I needed to know why. With that [...]
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Sacrificing the Little Things for Early Retirement?
This is a guest post by Andy over at Retire at 40. His plan is to get out of the rat race by the time he turns 40, which is now less than seven years away. He does use the British spellings and terminology. I thought it added to the character of the [...]
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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 [...]
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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).
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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 [...] -
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 [...] -
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 [...] -
Our Early Retirement Plan: Introduction (Part 0)
I thought I’d switch things up this week and write about our retirement plan for the future. It’s going to be detailed, so I’ll have an article one day each week.
I need to get a few things out of the way:Retirement planning at age 32 is a shot in the dark [...]
