Getting a hot tub (spa) has been the absolute best splurge I’ve ever made. The second best splurge is building a deck. Once the global pandemic hit, I went from going to my hot tub once or twice a week to three or four times a week. Having a hot tub has been a life-saver!
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The Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) movement is hot! I helped kickstart the modern-day FIRE movement when I launched Financial Samurai in July 2009 and started chronicling my journey to FI. But what are some of the not so obvious reasons why some people want to achieve FIRE? This is the question I want to
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One of my beliefs as a stay at home dad is that I wouldn’t trade the time I spent with my son for any amount of money. Lost income be damned! Given time is way more valuable than money, especially as you get older, this sounds like a logical statement. But perhaps this statement is
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Back in 2016, I finally found my dream job: a high school tennis coach. I have always wanted to be a teacher, but my career in finance straight out of college got in the way for 13 years until I finally retired from the profession in 2012. When I looked into becoming a middle school
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Are you wondering how to get your spouse to go back to work after having a baby? I am since having our second child. Ever since my son was born, I’ve felt increased financial pressure to provide. It didn’t matter how much I had in the bank or how much our net worth had grown
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It feels a lot like 2007 again. Almost every major asset class is on fire. People are leveraging up to buy things they don’t fully quit understand. Investing FOMO is all over the place! Let’s review why it feels like 2007 all over again so we can better protect ourselves. Reflection helps us appreciate how
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One of the greatest benefits of full-time work is getting paid whether you work or not. I miss that. How awesome is it to paid when there is a snow day? How good does it feel when you’re out sick or injured for a week and the paycheck continues to roll in? When you’re sipping
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Although 2018 ended on a down note with the stock market selling off, I feel good about how things unfolded. I’ll take the ratio of three good quarters to one bad quarter any year. Here is my Financial Samurai 2018 year in review. Believe it or not, my theme for 2018 was: back to early
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As we come to the end of the year, I want to highlight the top posts published in 2018. This year I spent more time than normal writing cautionary articles partly because I felt the good times were going away. It was important to share my growing concerns about the economy in order to better prepare the FS community. My first
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Win the small to conquer the big is a strategy to help you succeed at bigger things in life. By winning the small stuff, you will naturally develop more confidence and more skills to tackle new challenges. I recently experienced one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. I’d rank the feeling right up there with getting into
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