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How To Survive Black Friday
November is coming up soon (as I type this), and with it comes the biggest shopping day(s) of the year: Black Friday & Cyber Monday. Truth be told, the deals start even before Thanksgiving, and for people pursuing financial independence, most just tune out the ‘deals’ because some people end up buying stuff they don’t need just because it’s on ‘sale’. However, I say utilize these deal days especially if you really need something. This has been our strategy on Black Friday week from 4 years ago and continues to be our strategy until now. In fact, we shop a lot more during this week compared to the year because…
Book Review: Playing with FIRE (Scott Rieckens)
Now that I’m pregnant and getting bigger every single day, our travel days are numbered, and we are stuck in nesting mode. This means I can read more books as I await the arrival of our little one because I can’t really go anywhere new (unless it’s within an hour or so of where the hospital is). Since I like reading a lot of non-fiction books in an effort to learn more about personal finances, retirement, real estate, and the like – I picked up the book Playing With Fire (Financial Independence, Retire Early) by Scott Rieckens and here’s my review of the book. Book Review: Playing with FIRE This…
Baby Stuff For Cheap (or Free)
Welcome to our second trimester post! I’m sort of back to my normal self, but I get tired really easily and my brain seems to have succumbed to my pregnancy when I can’t think clearly. Other than that though, I’m still taking it easy, hence, the lesser amount of blog posts you see here (apologies!) On our first trimester post, I’m pretty much a zombie who’s always sick and tired all the time, so I did not have much time to devote to researching and planning. Now, I will have to make the most of the next 3 months (well, 2 months now), to try and learn how to get…
The Cubicle Dwellers Manifesto
You probably all know that Peter and I work full time. But here we are, managing to blog and type our thoughts, experiences, and travels in this blog. Because of a very frustrating bureaucratic experience I just had, I am writing this open letter to each and everyone of you who may be reading this that are currently employed by a company. Yes, maybe 99% of you reading this may be affected. I’m calling it… The Cubicle Dwellers Manifesto ******************************************************** Dear Cubicle Dwellers, Greetings! First off, let me introduce myself. I too am a cubicle dweller – meaning, working a full time 9-6 job much like more than 80% of…
Reaching Financial Independence with Kids
Congratulations! You just found out you’re expecting a little one in your family. You’re on your path to Financial Independence, and you’re more than happy to add to your brood. Here’s our personal account of our journey to try and reach FI with a child. This is fairly new to us, so we are still updating this post as we go along with various other links to articles that we’re making the journey along the way. Reaching Financial Independence with a Child Chapter One: The Pregnancy Test When you or your partner thinks that they’re pregnant, their initial thought will be to buy a pregnancy test. Frugal hack: We bought…
