Women should always have their own money & a Plan B. Period.
Honestly, I don’t really care what anyone says. Any woman (I speak of women mostly because that’s the group that is most affected), who doesn’t have some of her o
Why women need to be more financially independent than men
Because we are women. Women are…. more likely to work less due to maternity leave (and just being pregnant is rough) paying more for ‘female’ things or services l
What does your rich life look like?
When I say “rich”, I don’t mean millions of dollars in the bank. Forget the money – what would you like to do? What activities? Start a farm for rescue dogs
Early retirement is not all it’s cracked up to be and why we went back to work
I usually ‘early retire’ in between contracts but when it was around 2020 around the start of the year when I lost my contract (pandemic woes), that’s when I real
Why early retirement FIRE people can sometimes be short-sighted
FI/RE or written as FIRE in short form, stands for: Financially Independent / Retire Early In this, it means if you hit your FIRE number, or your FI number, you are ready to stop w
Looking at different levels of FIRE retirement: Lean, Regular, Fat/Luxury and Barista
FYI … FIRE = Financial Independence / Retire Early It’s a movement that has taken root in the past 10 years, kicked off by this book: Your money or your life which I ab
Want to feel strong and feminist? Become financially empowered
By this, I don’t mean to become financially empowered by learning how to day trade, what a butterfly option is, or any of that other high finance stuff. I am talking about ba
In the world of Save. Spend. Splurge.: On how Financial Independence is “making poverty fashionable to millennials”
1. R U 4 real? (Okay so I don’t really talk like that or type like that because it takes as much effort to type “u” for “you” and looks far better.) H
How much do you need to have saved for retirement? By salary per year and investments.
This is a chart for retirement, made up with the 25X rule and the 4% withdrawal rules. What’s the 25X rule? Simple. What do you want to spend in retirement? $50K? Take $50K x
“Playing with FIRE” documentary (2019) – Free streaming until Wed Dec 11
Link: Free on Vimeo (Private) until Wednesday December 11th 2019 Password: FIRE Thoughts: Not enough numbers – would have liked to have seen their budgets before and after,