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Sunday Scaries (n): The Sunday evening dread that creeps in when anticipating work in the morning. Shut down Sunday Scaries with this series: Sunday Sharies! These are the articles, links, and content I’ve read this week that I think are worth sharing. FIRE Articles Our 2020 Finances (Millennial Revolution) If I can’t use geographic arbitrage, […]
I’m positive that 2020 will be a bookmark year, one that we can flip to easily in our minds and remember exactly what we were doing when the whole world shut down. For me personally, 2020 brought on lots of change and forced flexibility. I moved from New York to California, worked from home the […]
Due to COVID-19 and other concerns, instead of flying home after Thanksgiving I decided to stick around my parents’ home for the month of December. I always enjoy Denver’s blue skies, but I was missing MechaniCat badly. To ease my homesickness and liven up my childhood home, we looked into picking up a foster cat. […]
No Negativity November The theme of this month was “self-care.” It’s easy to get used to the day-to-day rhythm of life and forget to make that extra effort to take care of ourselves. I pushed hard in November for all forms of self-care. I got myself a therapist, went for yoga and a run (yes […]
** NEW SERIES – Financial independence has far-reaching effects on our lives, and for many the pursuit of independence and the obtaining of it has impacted us in profound ways. Today, we hear from Jessica from The Fioneers, who recently quit her job to become a full-time entrepreneur! If you are interested in writing for series […]
Sunday Scaries (n): The Sunday evening dread that creeps in when anticipating work in the morning. Shut down Sunday Scaries with this series: Sunday Sharies! These are the articles, links, and content I’ve read this week that I think are worth sharing. Finance Articles Personal finance advice relies on shame; what if we tried empathy? […]
October Expenses My October expense report is coming late this month. A lot happened in October, which I will likely write about in the future, but is too much to cover in one report. However, I’m not one to break a streak so here is the expense report for October! Note: This is the spending […]
** NEW SERIES – Financial independence has far-reaching effects on our lives, and for many the pursuit of independence and the obtaining of it has impacted us in profound ways. I decided to start a series on how FI has changed the lives of people all over the world. Today, I’m launching this series with […]
The conversation around abolishing the police is one our country should have, but the “police” I am writing about today and the issues surrounding them are admittedly much lower-stakes. While the actual police force has a lot to atone for, the folks I’m talking about do something that’s simply annoying: they crack down on definitions of […]
September started off right with a visit from my sister, who just finished her Master’s in Mechanical Engineering and is prepping to start a new job in Europe! We relaxed our strict quarantine to see some family this month. However, with COVID-19 still in full swing in the States, we still had to be careful […]