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For many families, Coast FIRE can feel like a distant dream. It often seems reserved for high earners, tech workers, or people who discovered investing very early in life. Careers feel demanding, kids are expensive, and it can be hard to imagine building enough momentum to ease off the gas before traditional retirement age. Mike English proves that Coast FIRE can be achieved through consistency, intentional planning, and time. Mike and his wife, Tambor, reached […]
How is everyone doing this week? It’s been a difficult last ten days or so. It started with 18″ of snow and sub-20-degree weather. In the last couple of days, it’s heated up to a balmy 25 degrees. It’s sad, but I can feel a big difference. Unfortunately, it’s getting back to the low teens for the weekend. I wasn’t sure what to write about today, so I’m going with a mixed bag approach. Let’s […]
Analyzing Reddit’s Q4 2025 earnings and $1B buyback. Exploring big revenue growth, AI search pivots, and full-year financial results. The post Reddit’s Breakout Year: Turning Your Authenticity into Money appeared first on Time in the Market.
Boring investments are one thing, a boring life is a whole other discussion. Our investments are quite boring at the moment, which is a good thing and we appreciate it very much. We also want to keep it this way! However, I also think I have a boring life at the moment. That is not a good thing. Well, it can be depending on how you look at it. Boring Life Glass half full Okay, looking on the bright side. Having a boring life means that you also have managed to control it, and shape it to your preferences (mostly, anyway). What I mean here is that we are financially very stable, with very little things to worry about. I also love Mrs CF and Miss CF to bits. They are both awesome and I could not wish for a better family. Furthermore, we are healthy and are working very hard at keeping it that way too. From this perspective it is awesome to have a boring life. I’m definitely not complaining about this, actually, I’m very appreciative of it and try not to take it for granted. The other half of the glass But then there is the other half of one’s life. In my case there is work, and a brain that is both extremely lazy and on the other hand a black hole for information and data I do find interesting. But I usually don’t find stuff interesting, unless it applies to my life directly and I can do something with it. Currently I don’t have any topics I’m really interested in, which is not helping. I have a love-hate relationship with work. Driven by my weird brain. I love it in the beginning when all is new and exciting. But usually within about a year, year and a half, the initial excitement is gone. I have figured out, for about 80 percent how things work, and I get bored. Longing for a new challenge / environment. The pace of change within the jobs I have done has always been too slow to keep my brain fed sufficiently. our FIRE journey made things worse, as I now have zero patience to wait for new challenges or environments. Currently I’m there again. It started out okay, but quickly deteriorated after about a year. Fortunately, we shifted to a new project, which helped a lot. But we are now almost at year 2 again and even the second project is no longer that exciting any more. In short, I’m bored, hence I feel I have a boring life. Boring Life – Bored Brain More of the other half of the glass More of that other half glass. I love change, no, I need change and a lot of it. My life has been full of it so far. We lived in many different places, in multiple countries. I worked in various continents in various industries. I do really well on this variation. But we have not bought a
We recently spent an entire year living in France, staying in 12 different cities and visiting 6 more via day trip. These stops were spread throughout the country, as we tried to soak in the flavor of the many distinct areas. In every region we found a plethora of amazing art and we did our […] The post One Year In France appeared first on Bonus Nachos.
A delayed Happy New Year! I do these posts every year and it’s taking me longer and longer into the new year to get them out. I did my first spending post for the year 2020 and it was almost… The post How Much Did I Spend In 2025? appeared first on Accidental Fire.
Maybe you can relate? Whether it’s divorce, bereavement, retirement, or something else entirely — change happens. And what once served us (habits, hobbies, relationships, or even our physical possessions) might not “fit” like it used to. The post How to Find Your Footing After a Big Life Change — Even If You Feel Stuck appeared first on Simply + Fiercely.
Since our eldest was accepted to university, I’ve spent a bit of time thinking ahead about what life could be like in this next phase. I’m trying to incorporate wisdom from the excellent book Designing Your Life, by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, where they advocate exploring a transition to a new activity or role gradually to determine whether the reality will live up to the expectation. When I consider examples of folks who have […]
Lots and lots . . . and lots of years ago (I am so very old, Dear Reader), when I was a wee boy, my Dear Old Dad and I went to a now-defunct all-sortsa-stuff store. Think Wal-Mart-lite. While standing in a check-out line, I saw nearby a guy who to this day is my all-time favorite sports figure. We’ll call him Sports Guy. Sports Guy was a first-ballot hall of famer in his sport, […]
Lots of recipes use lemons and what about fresh orange juice or a lime served with tacos? We need to get as much mileage out of everything we buy and one way to get the last drop from the citrus you buy is to use this simple trick. Roll the fruit under your palm on […] Continue Reading The post Money Saving Tip-Oranges and Lemons appeared first on My Worthy Penny.
You are poor. You know it. And if you’re reading this, you’re looking for a blueprint to get out. Let me save you the soft nonsense: Your failure is not a lack of budgeting tips or a misunderstanding of mutual funds. Your failure is systemic and mathematical, and until you embrace a Zero-Tolerance Mandate, you will remain trapped. You need to know two things: Your Baseline: How far behind you are compared to the average […]
In my last post, The Case for an All-Weather Approach, I wrote conceptually about what it means to build something sustainable, rather than something that only shines in ideal conditions. So what does that look like in practice? Today, I’m sharing how I’ve constructed and manage an All-Weather Plan that works for me. Today, Dana shares the details on how she’s built (and manages) an All-Weather Plan for her investments.Share on X What An All-Weather […]
In this special birthday reflection episode, I’m slowing things down and turning inward. I’m sharing where I am in this season of life, what feels solid, what feels unclear, and what I’m intentionally leaving open. Birthdays always make me pause. They give me space to reflect, to check in with myself, and to notice how much has changed internally and externally. In this episode, I’m asking myself honest questions and inviting you to sit with […]