It’s been a busy spring for us. We took three trips in March, April, and May–domestically and internationally. We traveled for a grand total of 35 days across these three months! We still had plenty to do at home when we weren’t trave...
Mindy and I recently recorded with Ramit Sethi. Talking to Ramit was hard. He isn’t afraid to ask difficult questions. It was a therapy session and after it was done (3+ hours!), I felt like I had been run over by a steam roller. However, just be...
Have you ever seen the John Cusack film, “High Fidelity“? No? That’s OK, you don’t really have to see the movie to understand and appreciate the concept of a Top 5 list. PIMD welcomes Physician On Fire as our guest post. POF is a personal finance website created to inform and inspire both physicians and our […]
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Here's Journal Club 05-12-23! Every week, I hold a JOURNAL CLUB. After filtering through the articles on the web, I present a few that impacted my life this week. Be safe and stay well! Read any interesting articles? We'd love it if you could please take a moment to share them in the comments below! […]
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Listen as I talk tax with Becky Heptig and Bill Yount on the Catching Up to FI podcast. You can access the podcast on Apple Podcasts. We discuss tax planning for financial independence, particularly planning for those catching up later in their careers...
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...
We passed our third year in early retirement (back in November 2022)! Dragon Gal retired in 2017 from full time teaching and Dragon Guy retired in 2019 from the finance industry. We feel that each year of early retirement together has had a different &...
In May of 2022, we spent over three weeks in Europe – 12 nights in Germany (visiting München and Berlin) and 11 nights in Iceland. While in Iceland, we spent 8 nights driving around the island on the Ring Road and three nights in the capital city ...
My main goal* was to build an investment and cash portfolio of $1,120,000* ($1,000,000 to retire on and $120,000 to pay off the house) in 1500 days**, starting from 1/1/2013 and ending in February of 2017. I made my goal in 2016, my 1500 Days are over,...
“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...
Here are the slides for my 2023 Econome Conference presentation. Follow me on Twitter at @SeanMoneyandTax This post and the accompanying slides are for entertainment and educational purposes only. They do not constitute accounting, financial, inve...
I’ll bet you’ve never seen a title like that on a blog before. Allow me to explain. I’ve been pretty busy lately. The Project House is almost ready to become a furnished rental: I’m still working on leveling out the back yard. W...
At the end of January, we traveled to Panamá y Guatemala for 22 nights. This was the first time we’d both been to either country. We spent a week each in three cities. We’ve been studying Spanish for over 6 months, so we were looking &...
Are you sick and tired of work but aren't ready for retirement? The sabbatical may be the right answer for your burnout.
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We hope 2023 is off to a great start for you! Happy Lunar New Year for those of you who celebrate! Here’s hoping that the year of the rabbit will be “hoppy” and full of success! For us, January was a month of new focus. … T...
In last week’s post, we highlighted our 2022 expenses. This post will summarize our investments and process for funding our third year in early retirement together. OUR INVESTMENTS Our investment portfolio is roughly 70% stocks and 30% bonds/cas...
I was talking to my friend Jen recently when she asked a fantastic question. It was posed to her about a year ago. Here is how it went down: Jen had just retired and was on a trip down to Oaxaca to celebrate. On the plane, she sat next to her friend Se...
Welcome to a detailed look at our 2022 early retirement expenses. This was our third full year of early retirement together as a couple. Dragon Gal retired in June 2017, and I retired in November 2019. Once we learned about FIRE, tracking our spendin...
Congress just passed a very long retirement tax bill, colloquially referred to as SECURE 2.0 or the SECURE Act 2.0. The FI community is interested in anything affecting tax-advantaged retirement accounts. This post dives in on the impact of SECURE 2.0 ...
I published my first post on 1/1/2013. Here it is: https://www.1500days.com/start-here/ 10 years later, here we are. Crazy. Time flies by. So cliche, but so true. 10 years is most likely more than 10% of my life. And the past 10 years are certainly som...