Back to School: Two Years of FREE College in One Month!

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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Tax Planning: 2022 Free Money!

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 …

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Back to School: Quarantine College 2020-2021!

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 …

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Financial Update for August of 2021

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 …

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Tax Planning: 2021 Free Money!

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!” …

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Podcast Interview with Superb Diamond Range

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 …

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Adiós 2019 y Bienvenidos 2020

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 …

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Podcast Interview with One Million Apples

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

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Tax Planning: 2020 Free Money!

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.  …

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Podcast Interview with the Confessionals

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 …

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2019 Q3 Update from the Swamp

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 …

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FIRE Flashback: Our $15,000 Financial Triple Play

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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2019 Summer Update

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 …

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