Talking Money with Financial Mechanic

We’re convinced that when people share their money stories and dive into the emotional side of personal finance that’s a good thing. And that’s why we started our Talking Money series, to make room for others to share their stories. We’re all...

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Where are you AOC? It’s time for an update!

“We haven’t seen a post from you in a while and are hoping all is well.” Willie’s Great Adventure We’ve gotten a lot of messages like this one above from our personal finance friends recently so it’s time for a quick update. Luckily (for the blog...

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Talking Money with Jeff and Josh from AHA FIRE

We’re convinced that when people share their money stories and dive into the emotional side of personal finance that’s a good thing. And that’s why we started our Talking Money series, to make room for others to share their stories. We’re all...

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Talking Money with Kat and Omar

We’re convinced that when people share their money stories and dive into the emotional side of personal finance that’s a good thing. And that’s why we started our Talking Money series, to make room for others to share their stories. We’re all...

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Life After FI – 4 Years in Retirement

As September was wrapping up I realized the anniversary of when I quit my last job had just slid by again. Since I don’t celebrate that day every year I had to check some notes to remind myself of exactly when that was. My last day as an employee was S...

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Reviewing the Retirement Planning Guidebook, Part 1 – RISA Profiles and the Funded Ratio

Last December we gathered in Arizona with family to celebrate the holidays and swapped names for a simple gift exchange. That worked great for me and Ali since we aren’t into buying mountains of presents to stick under a tree. We picked one person to b...

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Talking Money with Tom, the Frugal Gay

We’re convinced that when people share their money stories and dive into the emotional side of personal finance that’s a good thing. And that’s why we started our Talking Money series, to make room for others to share their stories. We’re all...

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Hey! Wanna Stay in Portugal for a Month for Free?

We got an exciting message from some FIRE friends who moved from the USA to Portugal this year. Their message came out of the blue in WhatsApp asking if we’d be open to pet and house sitting in Lisbon! Alison and I read that first message and the...

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Is 2022 the Year of I-Bonds for You?

And another question, is all this I-bond enthusiasm FOMO or mo money? We’ve all been hearing lots about inflation-linked savings bonds (I-bonds) lately. And lots of you have been asking us if we’ve jumped on the current I-bond train ourselves. Before w...

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We Bought an Airstream Trailer!

Yep that’s right, we bought a new Airstream trailer this year. Buying a new travel trailer was a big purchase and an even bigger lifestyle change for us. After almost 18 years together our only “camping” experiences before this year were staying in cab...

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AOC Tips for Teens, Part 3

A Guest Post for Teen Financial Freedom. Please check out the blog and podcast from Teen Financial Freedom. We are blatantly encouraging our personal finance community to follow this team of young people because we want to support their efforts. They’r...

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Talking Money with TravelBug

We love talking about money with other people! No matter how unique we are, we can always learn something new about money and about life from other people. And listening to other people tell their money stories helps to support them in reaching their p...

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