by Tara Scott | Last updated Jan 11, 2024 | Active Real Estate Investing, FIRE, Fun & Travel, Personal Finance, Spark Blog |
“I wanted to get money out of the way so I could spend my time with kids and a wife (I didn’t yet have.)” Greg Wilson retired recently at 42. But he started planning for financial independence and early retirement when he was a teenager: “I am the son of a...
by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Jan 10, 2024 | FIRE, Fun & Travel, Personal Finance, Spark Blog |
Who says you have to work into your 60s? While people have been retiring early since there was work to shirk, the “FIRE movement” went mainstream in the early 2010s, popularized by Mr. Money Mustache and a few other bloggers. But does financial independence...
by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Jan 12, 2024 | Active Real Estate Investing, Personal Finance, Spark Blog |
It’s hard being a single parent. You’re constantly triaging all the demands on your time. You have a full-time job, full-time parenting responsibilities, and of course you have to manage a household entirely on your own. And that’s before you even think about...
by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Jan 12, 2024 | Active Real Estate Investing, FIRE, Fun & Travel, Personal Finance, Spark Blog |
I met Ashley Thompson in a Facebook group of Mustachians. No, she doesn’t have a mustache. She, like tens of thousands of people around the world, has embraced the financial discipline and minimalism preached by Mr. Money Mustache. (His blog remains one of the best...
by Guest Author | Last updated Dec 29, 2023 | Active Real Estate Investing, Personal Finance, Spark Blog |
(Guest article by Michelle Cornish, CPA) Are you on track for retirement? Most North Americans aren’t. I spent sixteen years working in public accounting where I helped people with their taxes and retirement planning. Over and over, I found that people fear...