Selfie Time at La Isla Mall in Merida, Yucatan Millionaire greetings from steamy Merida, Yucatan. We’re currently on a five-month adventure in Mexico with plans of traveling to Campeche, Chiapas, and Quintana Roo. (Obviously, this i...
If you like alternative ideas, hacks, and work-arounds, you’re going to love this post. Most people agree that higher education has become ridiculously expensive. In addition to the cost, college is usually a 4-6 year commitment, and it requires a massive amount of mental and emotional energy. Since we have a high-school sophomore who plans …
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Greetings to all my current and future millionaire readers! I’ve been meaning to write this 2022 Free Money! post for months now, but there has been one major impediment: D.C. politics. In March of 2021, the American Rescue Act increased the child-tax credit to $3,000 for children (ages 6 to 17) and $3,600 for kids …
Greetings millionaires! When the Covid-19 quarantine began back in March of 2020, I suddenly had a lot of free time to fill. My daily routine of working out, jogging, reading, cooking, and red wine was going along great, but I needed a “special project” to make the most of my extended work stoppage. Luckily, I …
Greetings future and current millionaires. A few years back, I wrote that I would continue to do net-worth updates until we hit the $2 million dollar mark. Well, that means that this will be my last net-worth update. Finally, a Millionaire in My Own Right As the stock market has gone up, my own personal …
Long-overdue greetings to all my readers out there. With 2021 right around the corner, it’s a perfect time to start your tax planning for next year. You know what means, right? Yeap, it’s time for my most requested post of the year, 2021 Free Money! What Exactly Is Free Money! ? My “Free Money!” …
Great News: We’re Still Healthy! Warm quarantine greetings from swampy South Georgia! Tomorrow starts week 3 of no school for us (and most of the country). All in all, our daily life is pretty normal except that we no longer have jobs to report to. It’s almost like we’ve re-FIRE’d again! My routine is the …
Okay, I know this post is late, but here it is. Before I get into last year’s accomplishments and this year’s goals, it’s worth mentioning that there are many things in life that are more important than money: family, community, faith, health, and love. As I write these words, the world is under threat by …
Happy New Year! I just wanted to let you know that I did an interview with Breanna Reish of the One Million Apples podcast. We talked about our 2019 hardcore savings, geo-arbitrage, my Twitter “rants,” and my never-ending obsession with Bigfoot. I hope you enjoy the interview. Gerry
The holiday season is upon us: fall weather, pumpkin spice, falling leaves, cool breezes…actually, who cares? It’s tax-planning time, so it’s time for my most anticipated post of the year: 2020 Free Money! Refresher: What is “Free Money!”? For the uninitiated, my Free Money! posts are an attempt to simplify tax planning for my readers. …
Hi everyone! Believe it or not, I actually have interests outside of FIRE. If you read this masterpiece, you know I love all things Squatch. Last February I recorded a podcast interview with Tony Merkel of the Confessionals. We talk for about an hour about the various Georgia Bigfoot stories that I’ve heard over the …
Swampy fall-is-finally-here greetings to all current and future millionaires. With the third quarter over for 2019, it’s now time to see how we’re progressing towards our annual financial goals. Our main financial goal for 2019 is to save $130k in our various tax-advantaged accounts: 457, 403b, IRA, and HSA accounts. Since there are two of …
Nota Bene: While this post is about our move to Echols County, Georgia back in 2009, it’s still interesting and relevant to anyone contemplating a geo-arbitrage move. I never got around to putting it on my blog until now…better late than never! Here’s what I wrote back when our net worth was around $450k: Our …
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Long overdue summer greetings to my dozens of faithful readers! School has been out for a few weeks now, but I’ve been busy with my new basketball duties. After a tough (and winless) basketball season and a sudden coaching change, guess who became a head coach again? Yep, yours truly! There’s no denying that the …
Last September at FinCon 2018 in Orlando I was talking with the coolest cat in the cave, my FIRE brother J. Money of Budgets Are $exy, about how to shine some light on the abuses in the K-12 403b marketplace. After about five seconds of reflection, he said, “Oh, that’s easy. Just declare April 3rd …