Investing & Taxes

I want to disclaim three things before I get into this: I’m not a tax professional (surprise, surprise!). I’m not an accountant, and I intend to USE an accountant during tax season this year to help me sort out my different streams of income and itemizations so I don’t end up getting absolutely obliterated by […]

I have been, by all definitions of the word, lucky. I was raised by two middle-class (married) parents. My dad never lost his job, and he worked at the same company for his entire career. As the only child, I was sent to private schools. Thanks to my private school education and the familial obsession […]

The focus of this blog shifts in accordance with my own obsessions, so you’ve probably noticed a focus on investing recently (before that it was psychological approaches to changing your spending habits, then it was travel rewards, and now… here we are). I like to think that, as a result of my frenetic obsession-switching, you’re […]

When I first learned about early retirement, I was blown away—so much so that I didn’t really ask any questions about what happened AFTER you retired at 35 or 40 years old. All I knew was I needed to save as aggressively as possible, as early as possible. But then I started to envision the […]