From Will Lipovsky, Owner and Founder of FirstQuarterFinance.com I had a net worth just north of $100,000 when I graduated college at age 21. I NEVER wanted money so I could become some rich guy who buys Ferraris on a whim. I wanted to be my own boss, my own person – that was my… Read more
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How me and my fiancee paid off $52k and saved $20k in our first 18 months out of college
The road to financial freedom takes a toll. It takes time, perseverance and determination (not to mention a total alignment with your partner). It doesn’t help that there are tools everywhere and the easy solutions never work. In 21 months I went from having $17,000 in the bank to $52,000 in debt and then back… Read more
Whatever Comes Out of Your Mouth is a Lie if Your Actions Don’t Follow
Right after college, I went on a round the world trip for a year. No, I didn’t charge my credit cards and delay my student loans, I saved aggressively during college by working a wide variety of jobs, graduated with savings, bought a rental property and set off to see the world.
Little house in Guatemala, February 2015
You know you aren’t updating your blog nearly enough when you had time to build half a house since the last update… Since November, I have been in full construction mode, although the builders took two weeks off around Christmas and I managed to escape all of January and spent a month in Europe. For… Read more
Of course the rich want to keep the middle class down!
Financial Samurai had an interesting post recently asking if rich and powerful people are trying to keep the middle class down. I went through the comments and was really surprised to find that the vast majority said “of course not!” and there were some shy “maybes”, mostly pointing the rich are trying to keep their… Read more
Financial Independence, Is Your Spouse on Board?
Please welcome Even Steven! Let me know if you would like to guest post on RFI. My blog is named Even Steven Money and I’m working on paying all of my debt back, becoming Even Steven, and building financial independence to retire early. I started my official journey about a year ago and have… Read more
Breaking free from the ‘bank of mum and dad’
This post was written in collaboration with MyJar More and more people in their late 20s and early 30s are still living at home with their parents. It’s a growing trend to fly the nest and go off to university, only to return a few years later due to financial reasons. There is nothing wrong… Read more
Are you richer than your grandparents?
I talked recently about how your grandparents or the generation before were probably not making as much money as you do now, but also had fewer needs, because they were vastly self sufficient. They grew their own food, built part or all of their house, sew their clothes, and so on. As a result,… Read more
How they took away your freedom, one consumer good at a time
Many of my friends look at my lifestyle and see travel, leisure, a lot of free time, no day job… so naturally, they wonder why I am living on a tropical beach if I haven’t had a job in over four years, while they are slaving at the office and barely have $5,000… Read more
Finding our Road to Financial Independence
Good morning this is a guest post from Dee, she is a personal finance enthusiast and blogger who is working hard to live a frugal lifestyle, ditch debt, and create multiple streams of income. She hopes to inspire others to achieve their financial goals by doing the same and writes about the journey on her… Read more