2025 Goals and Resolutions – Q4 Update and Wrap Up
It’s hard to believe that 2025 is in the books and we are in the first month of the new year… and the second quarter of the century. 2025 was the seventh year that I …
Financial Independence
Financial Independence (FI) the most important part of Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE).
Why is FI so important? Because being financially independence means that we can choose to work if we wanted to, not because we have to.
This blog is dedicated for chronicle our financial independence journey.
Dividend Income – December 2025 Update & 2025 Summary
Welcome to another monthly dividend income update. I always enjoy writing the December dividend income update because it gives me a chance to not only show how we did for the last month of the …
2026 Looking Ahead
Happy New Year, everyone! Can you believe this decade, the 20s, is halfway over? It’s also hard to believe that both of my kids are no longer little babies anymore. In fact, Kid 2.0 will …
2025 Wrap up
Happy holidays! I hope everyone enjoyed their breaks and spent time with their families. 2025 was a great year in terms of the stock market. Just about everything was up! On the blogging front, it …
Would You Take $2 Million for 60-hour Work Weeks? Answering Life’s Toughest Money Dilemmas
The other day, we were playing That Escalated Quickly, in which one player would pick a question card, the other players would pick out a number card from 1 to 10 and come up with …
Early Retirement Q&A with Dividend Daddy
The financial independence retire early (FIRE) community is a very supportive and tight-knit one. Because the community is made up of folks who have different backgrounds and different ages, it’s very diverse (not just Caucasian …
Avoiding 25 big investment & retirement mistakes
Before I started blogging, I used to read many different personal finance and investing blogs. Over the years, some of these blogs have disappeared or changed ownership. One blog that is still around that I …