Revealing your financial independence plans too soon is a mistake. As the pioneer of the modern-day FIRE movement who has established FIRE rules, premature revelation is a no-no! When I started Financial Samurai in July 2009, I only told my Japanese colleague who sat next to me, nobody else. I didn’t want any colleagues who […]
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The last thing any couple should want to do when they start a marriage is get buried in debt and stress. Debt and financial stress can break relationships down. Instead of creating unnecessary anxieties, have a budget wedding and start your married life on the right foot! What’s the average wedding cost in the US
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If you want to build great wealth, you must invest in risk assets over the long term. If you hold most of your net worth in cash, your purchasing power will fall behind due to inflation. In this post, I’d like to discuss what the last 20 years of inflation teaches us about building wealth.
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This is the Financial Samurai 2019 mid-year review. After writing The Bear Market Checklist, I thought I’d follow my own advice and do a mid-year review. The last thing I want is to get broadsided because things feel so good. So far, this year has been solid on the financial front. I haven’t felt this
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After a home sale, you will hopefully be flush with cash. However, reinvesting proceeds after a home sale is important if you want to keep up or beat inflation. Therefore, here are some investment ideas to consider after selling your property. Thanks to inflation, you need at least a $3 million net worth to be
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I’m on record saying that buying a vacation property is a suboptimal investment. But that’s also because I bought a vacation property in 2007, right before the market really took a dive. This post will discuss the only time you should consider buying a vacation property if you insist on not taking my advice. Perhaps
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I originally wrote this post on July 12, 2009, during the worst of the Global Financial Crisis. I had just started this site in my living room because I was worried I was going to lose all my money and get let go. So I started pontificating, “Do rich people try harder?” “Why do some
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The best gift any parent can give a child besides unconditional love is a great education. A 529 college savings plan is a solution that is designed to help families tax-efficiently save for future college costs. You contribute after tax money with the benefit of paying zero federal and state income taxes on the profits when
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The smartest people in the world are listeners, not speakers. If all you’re doing is speaking, how do you learn anything new? To get ahead, you need to be smart enough to act dumb. You need to also learn how to convince people you’re not very good at what you do to lower expectations. If
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Fight for financial independence every day. There’s something really confusing that maybe you can help explain. I don’t understand why some people criticize others for doing the following: Saving and investing more than 20% of their income Taking stock of all their cash during times of volatility Working more than 50 hours a week Developing side
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