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 …
Retire Early
RE part of FIRE… Retire Early!
Freedom 30, Freedom 35, Freedom 40, Freedom 45, etc. Many of us have dreamed about retire early so we can enjoy our lives rather than keep doing the 9-5 job for 30 or more years.
But retire early doesn’t mean stop working completely. Far from it. What does RE really means when it comes to financial independence retire early (FIRE)?
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 …
DIY Wealth Canada Podcast: Mark Seed on FIWOOT, Withdrawal Strategies, and More
I have followed Mark Seed’s blog, My Own Advisor, for many years. The two of us happen to share very similar investing philosophies. Therefore, it’s not a surprise that Mark and I often discuss investing, …
Reconsidering RRIF utilization in early retirement
As you get closer to retirement, you most likely will spend more and more time crunching numbers and doing retirement income planning. I previously wrote about how to convert RRSP to RRIF and the rules …