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Determining Your Retirement Expenses
Determining Your Retirement Expenses Last week, I detailed my necessary expenses. These are expenses that I need to cover to live and protect my income. There’s always a little fluidity to these because while transportation is a necessity for some, a new Acura isn’t. Even recognizing that fluidity, it was extremely worthwhile putting it all [...]
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Reviewing My Necessary Expenses (October 2011)
In the past, I used to go through and publicly list my necessary expenses. These are expenses that I consider necessary. There likely is a debate to be had about what qualifies as necessary, but for the most part, I’m including things that are necessary for living and/or protecting my income. This means that an [...]
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Reviewing my Necessary Expenses
When I started this blog more than three years, I got in a habit of writing about my net worth. As I mentioned on Monday, I stopped writing about my net worth for a variety of reasons. Along with keeping track of my net worth, I used to periodically review the expenses that I consider [...]
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Alternative Income Streams – May 2009
I’m a little late with my alternative income for last month. I tell myself it’s because I’ve been busy, but more likely it’s that the numbers are down. After taxes, I cleared $1,411.34. That’s still a good number and pays for a large amount of my necessary expenses (i.e. rent, food, insurance, utilities, etc.), so [...]
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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 [...]
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Carnival of Personal Finance #150
Welcome to the 150th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance. It amazes me to see the 150 number there. I had grand notions of tying all 115 accepted submissions into a good story. However, with the Comcast outage in my area yesterday, I scrambled today to get all the submissions in the form that [...]
