a rich life with less stuff
Geographic Arbitrage: Moving to a Low Cost of Living Area to Retire Early Have you heard of the term Geographic Arbitrage? It’s one method to retire early. Geographic arbitrage uses location price differences for financial advantage. For instance, if you are a nurse and the wage for your position is often fairly standard from city to
How to retire early with minimalism. This post is part of a series on early retirement and financial independence. You can see all of the Early Retirement posts here. Of course, I need to clarify here that I believe it’s a pretty privileged life that allows one to retire early. Many of these early retirees
Why would anyone want to retire early? In a newsletter I posed the question “what do you think of early retirement?” and had a wonderful response from a reader. To paraphrase she said, I enjoy my career, find it mentally stimulating, enjoy getting that time with adults everyday while my children are at preschool. Working
I’m so excited to share this post with you today. I stumbled across Cathy on Instagram and was mesmerized by her posts of house hacking to financial independence (and an HGTV pilot!). Her lifestyle also provides a lot of inspiration for living simply with little kids: they have moved a lot while renovating homes and
I think I try to choose time over money in my life. In fact, I think the value of time was one of my bigger takeaways when we started getting into minimalism, decluttering and paying off debt with ‘gazelle like intensity’ as the great Dave Ramsey would say. Suddenly, I could equate stuff with time.
I booked our flights to attend the London 2012 Olympics this week. It’s almost a no brainer for us to go: two of my good friends will be racing and representing Canada in the Women’s 8+ rowing event. They have an excellent chance of not only making the podium but winning. Since we’re now
Happy to share an interview with Adrian of 5Kids1Condo.com, a single dad of five living in 1000 sq ft condo, with you today. Great thoughts here on how living with less impacts kids and family life. Also: those sweet IKEA hacked bunks we have were originally his! 1.) Tell us about your family, who you
So many challenges and so many big life changes for this family living in the expensive Bay area. A move to a tiny home and a new baby and long distance parenting and creating a multi-generational family unit by moving into your parent’s backyard. Really interesting and inspiring read here that I hope you enjoy