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Financial Independence, Retirement

1 Year of Early Retirement (With Numbers)

August 9, 2023 14 Comments

After a year, is it time to give up this crazy ‘early-retirement’ thing and go back to my old over-air-conditioned office? Here is my tell-all of one year of early retirement.

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Intentional Living, Opinions, Retirement

I Could Retire Next Year At The Age of 28— But I Won’t.

May 25, 2020 21 Comments

I have a plan. I mapped it out a few years ago and I’ve been sticking to it— save $1,200,000 by the age of 32. It is a cautious plan that assumes I could double my expenses in retirement. It even has a buffer of $200,000 for just-in-case scenarios. Yet recently I’ve been wondering if this […]

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Financial Independence, Guest Post, Intentional Living, Retirement

Yes, I’m Retiring With Just $500,000

June 19, 2019 166 Comments

* I’m in the process of moving, so my friend Purple from A Purple Life wrote an epic guest post for today. She has a not-so-harebrained-scheme to retire next year on half a million dollars. I admit that I wondered how exactly she was planning to pull it off when most early retirees save at […]

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I'm a mechanical engineer turned programmer with a pretty big DIY project: save enough money to become financially independent. Financial Mechanic is all about frugality, career climbing, and investing.

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