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Reader Case: Financial Independence After a LayOff?
- The Power Of Forgiveness - August 3, 2020
- Reader Case: Lawyer in Pain - July 31, 2020
- Let’s Go Exploring! Ubud, Bali: An Instagrammer’s Paradise - July 24, 2020
Since we’re no longer travelling, it’s getting harder and harder to keep track of the days. Thankfully Google Calendar was on the ball and reminded me it’s Friday today. You know what that means. It’s time for a reader case! Hello, I LOVED your book and am a big fan of your philosophy. With the recent pandemic, my company, decided to implement a RIF (Reduction in Force). I was subject to the casualty and after 24 1/2 years with the company, they decided to let me go with a severance package that’ll pay me through the end of November. […]
How Has Covid-19 Affected Your FIRE Journey? Part 3
- The Power Of Forgiveness - August 3, 2020
- Reader Case: Lawyer in Pain - July 31, 2020
- Let’s Go Exploring! Ubud, Bali: An Instagrammer’s Paradise - July 24, 2020
Hello and welcome back to our FIRE series where we find out whether FIRE still works in a bear market by interviewing people in the community who are on different parts of the FIRE journey, Today, I want to introduce you to my friend, Patrick, whom we first met at London screening of Playing with FIRE. He also came to the London Chautauqua soon afterwards, so we’ve had a good amount of time to get to know him. Other than the fact that he’s a Canadian living in the UK and his fiance went to the same university as us, […]
How Has Covid-19 Affected Your FIRE Journey? Part 2
- The Power Of Forgiveness - August 3, 2020
- Reader Case: Lawyer in Pain - July 31, 2020
- Let’s Go Exploring! Ubud, Bali: An Instagrammer’s Paradise - July 24, 2020
In my quest to find out if FIRE works during bear markets as well as be bull markets, I’m interviewing friends in the FIRE community, who are in different parts of the FIRE journey, to see how covid-19 has affected their financial plans. Last time, we featured Clover from SimplyCloverLiving, a flight attendant who is still saving 50% of a government subsidy despite being on a job hiatus due to the pandemic. Read her interview here. Today, we have Sandy and Belinda (note: names have been changed for anonymity), a pair of Chautauquans who are on different paths of the […]
Reader Case: House Horny in Florida
- How Owning Individual Stocks Can Destroy Your Portfolio - July 27, 2020
- Reader Case: Real Estate Regret - July 17, 2020
- How The Hell Are We Going To Pay For All This Stimulus? - July 13, 2020
This morning I woke up and realized it’s been a long time since I did a rent-vs-buy reader case. So I thought I’d dust off the ol’ “Housing” Gmail folder and take one for a spin. I’m weird like that. It’s getting hot here in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and I don’t mean just the temperature. My wife and I are being tempted to buy a house (gasp!) due to rising rents and the fact that we have a little baby girl due in July 2020. We feel like we’ve been doing well in our financial situation but have gotten confused […]
Reader Case: Investing for FIRE in Malaysia
- How Owning Individual Stocks Can Destroy Your Portfolio - July 27, 2020
- Reader Case: Real Estate Regret - July 17, 2020
- How The Hell Are We Going To Pay For All This Stimulus? - July 13, 2020
I don’t know about you, but I am getting a little tired of the constant COVID-this and COVID-that coverage in the news, so just so I can remember what life used to be like before everything went all coo-coo-ca-ca, let’s do a reader case for old time’s sake! Hi Kristy, I have been reading your blog as well as that of your FIRE friends (RoG, GoCurryCracker etc). And I have done my calculations and projections for my retirement plan. But I need some advice because I think that we have some unique situations here in Malaysia that is affecting us […]
