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Author: Mike @ Freedom101 As early as I can remember adults would ask me what I wanted to do when I grew up. I understandably had no idea how I wanted to serve my life sentence without the possibility of parole for 25-35 years, so I would often structure my…
Last week we talked about how great parents allow their kids to fail……intentionally. This week, I want to tell you about the perfect family finance learning tool that will give your kids the IDEAL environment to make mistakes, learn how to adjust and develop their ability to bounce back along…
After spending the last 5 weeks talking all about Early Retirement – I’m dying to get back into talking about kids financial literacy, and more ways for us parents to give our kids the tools they’ll need to lead a financially secure and fulfilling life. This week we’re going to…
We’ve arrived at our final instalment in the Early Retirement series! If you are just joining in, take a look back at Part 1, to see the full picture of how you can better prepare for your transition to ER. If’ you’ve been following along – today is where we…
The second to last post in this series is all about making sure your front end work has been worthwhile. If you’ve spent years side hustling, investing, and delaying gratification, you definitely want to enjoy every possible moment of your well-earned “retired” life (regardless of whether or not you fully…
Welcome to part 3 of our retirement series, where we’re diving into the wonderful world of friendships, and how they are most certainly not exempt from the multi-faceted impacts of retiring. There is study after study after study documenting just how important friendships are in terms of a person’s happiness.…
“So what do you do with all your free time!? Don’t you get bored?” This is my second favourite (albeit a combo) question that people ask us now that we are “retired”. When people ask this question, I feel like it underscores the misconceptions surrounding the pursuit of Financial Freedom, and…
I’ve decided to dedicate the month of April to writing about post-retirement and some of the interesting lessons we’ve learned venturing into this chapter of our lives. While early retirement is definitely the cat’s meow – like everything in life, it comes with its own unique demands and challenges. We’ll…
Back in the pre-Mr. Money Moustache days, before FIRE was its own stand alone acronym, and before personal finance blogs were sprouting up everywhere (man I really should have started my blog back then), Mike and I were in the very beginning stages of fumbling our way towards a goal Mike…
Just over a month ago we started our 30 day challenge to stay Starbucks free. As a self-professed Starbucks addict who, for the past several years (*ahem*… decades), has rarely missed a day of picking up my Venti Decafe Americano with coconut milk, one would think this challenge would have…