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Done by Forty: The Miracle of the Commons

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Our path to financial independence by age 40. Monday, July 27, 2015. The Miracle of the Commons. I wondered aloud how hard it must be for the homeless to get a little break from this heat, "Where do they go? Wherever they can," Mrs. Done by Forty said. I'd hang out here, under this covered walkway," I said. It felt twenty degrees cooler in the shade. No problem: just pull up next to one of the dozens of computers. And, please, grab a Blu-ray on the way out, if that's your sort of thing. Libraries are jus...

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Millionaire Educator - Financial Independence on Teachers' Salaries

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Millionaire Educator – Financial Independence on Teachers’ Salaries. By The Mad Fientist. Bull; 40 Comments. Ed Mills from MillionaireEducator.com. Joined me for an episode of the Financial Independence Podcast. To talk about how he and his wife saved nearly a million dollars in just 16 years…on teachers’ salaries! We get into some really interesting tax-avoidance and geographic-arbitrage strategies so if you want to learn ways to drastically increase your income and savings rate, this episode is for you!

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Money Beagle - This Crook Had No Idea What He Was Dealing With

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This Crook Had No Idea What He Was Dealing With. May 4, 2015. May 1, 2015. I work in an office area that’s fairly open. We have half walls and the cube layouts are broken out into areas where three of us sit in a shared area. Each of us has a corner with one corner open to enter and exit. I like the two people I share space with a lot, but it’s often easy to overhear conversations given the layout. The fun really started the next day. After he was done, I couldn’t help but spin around in my chair a...

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Same as it ever was – Not a Wasted Word

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Not a Wasted Word. Same as it ever was. July 30, 2015. I’m reading more and more frugal living and financial independence and personal finance blogs and I am so impressed with the choices people are making and how much they are saving. I think, maybe if I make those same choices, I could save that much too. Then I realize they have smaller mortgages (either because they live in areas with lower COL or because they have a smaller house) and bigger salaries and some of them even have bonuses. When it takes...

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Done by Forty: Football is Coming

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Our path to financial independence by age 40. Tuesday, July 7, 2015. Oddly, I don't mind missing out on the $400 of rental income. I know this makes me seem like a rich jerk, but we make enough that we don't really need. The money. Especially since we have the mortgage paid off, the rent was always seen as 'extra'. But I do miss having someone pay a third of our utilities, because now all the bills, the water and trash and electricity, seem more expensive. Anchoring. But football is coming, and there is ...

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Restriction vs. Intention – Not a Wasted Word

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Not a Wasted Word. Restriction vs. Intention. August 3, 2015. It can really get me down. But I’m trying not to let it. I’m trying to reframe it from restriction (which feels, well, restrictive) to intention (which feels, well, intentional). Restriction is about what I can’t do. Intention is about what I’m trying to do. Intention is a good thing. Intention is a wonderful thing. So many of my choices were driven by habit or distraction, it feels good to make choices with purpose. August 3, 2015 at 06:05.

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The Unsuccessful Sister – Fi Big Sky

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If you saw our most recent post, you know that last month I traveled to Texas to watch my middle-little sister graduate from college. She worked five, grueling years to become an […]. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window). Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window). Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window). June 17, 2015 /. But now, a...

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Done by Forty: A Defense of Price Optimization

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Our path to financial independence by age 40. Monday, June 22, 2015. A Defense of Price Optimization. A while back, I heard about insurance companies using price optimization. How could a company make such a prediction about a single customer? Data mining and predictive analytics. Of course. One boon of the information age is that corporations now have a surprising amount of data on their individual customers: where you shop, the things you buy, and even how sensitive you are to price fluctuations. But m...

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minhus: The challenge of buying used

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Thursday, August 6, 2015. The challenge of buying used. Even the idea of searching those racks make me anxious. [photo: gnosis / john r. If you start reading up on how to go green or simplify your life, one of the most oft given tips is to buy used. Frugal living blog. S tout buying used because of the immense savings. And who could argue with any of that? Why is this, I wonder? Am I just unlucky? Prove that theory wrong. One of my few thrifting successes. So what about you? Am I the only one who doesn't?