Being frugal is a good habit to adopt if you want to build more wealth. However, it is very hard to frugal your way to early retirement. Instead, it’s much better to try and earn more income since the upside is limitless. You can only save so much! Living A Frugal Retirement Lifestyle Surprisingly, I […]
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Ever wonder: What does early retirement feel like? I retired early in 2012 at age 34 and want to share you all the ups and downs of not working a traditional day job any more. What’s interesting is that my feelings towards early retirement are very different from the initial couple of years. Today, I
In early 2020, I had an early retirement master plan of retiring at age 45 by the end of 2022. Let’s review the plan and some updates given it’s now past the target date for re-retirement. Dreaming Of Early Retirement Once More Although, after eight years, I failed to stay retired, my plan is to
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In 2020, I failed at early retirement and I want to share why. One of the things I enjoy about the Financial Samurai community is that you guys keep it real. After announcing that I plan to be more entrepreneurial and less focused on retirement a couple years ago, you guys gave an outpouring of
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In a previous article, I highlighted how generating passive income allows both my wife and I to be stay at home parents for our son. Our goal for the first five years of his life is to stay retired so we can spend as much time with him as possible before he goes to kindergarten.
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The reason why I retired from corporate America at 34 was so that I could take back my time. Retirement has always been about buying time, because time is finite. Once you have kids, you will also discover that time goes by much quicker because kids change so much. When I was just 13 years
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The DIRE Movement has replaced the FIRE Movement for early retirement seekers after the economy peaked in 2018. With droves of young adults finding it difficult to live off their meager investments while freelance work opportunities dry up, the DIRE movement is only going to increase in popularity over the next decade. While the desire
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Financial Samurai Goals 2018 is my way of keeping the year focused and on track. My biggest disappointment in 2017 was pushing my mind and my body past their limits. At the age of 40, I no longer have the energy to do what I’ve been used to doing all my life, yet I worked
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On March 8, 2017 I celebrated five years away from Corporate America. I also finally collected 100% of my remaining severance package on March 31. To celebrate, I’d like to share some insights into what I’ve learned since leaving the rat race. I’ll then share some more insights since 2017 as well. Initially, if anybody asked, I
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There is a void in early retirement you might experience. This void in early retirement needs to be filled if you want to feel happy and productive. Over the past one and a half years since leaving Corporate America in 2012, I’ve done some deep thinking about early retirement through posts such as: When you’re
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