Those of you who have been reading my blog for a while know that I talk a lot about achieving financial independence. It’s the elusive dream that Mr. CMF and I are striving for, and I have to admit that this dream is a big part of the reason why I started this blog to […]
READ MORE >>How to Start Making Passive Income
It occurred to me one day recently that I am starting to receive a significant amount of traffic to this site via search engines, and one of the search terms that commonly leads people to my site is “passive income.” One day a couple weeks ago I received traffic from a person or persons who […]
READ MORE >>How to Harness the Power of Compound Interest
Thanks to Shannon at The Heavy Purse for inviting me to be a part of the Financial Literacy Awareness Carnival! Financial Literacy is an incredibly important topic and I feel honored to be a part of this event. Thanks so much Shannon! And now read on to hear about my biggest money “a-ha moment.” Like […]
READ MORE >>How to Save for Retirement the Awesomely Strange Way
Several years ago I was working at my first ever real job. I’d had a million small jobs in high school and college, but this was my first job after I finished school and was out in the world ready to make money. This was my first job in my chosen field. Up until then […]
READ MORE >>Financial Independence or Early Retirement: Which Road Are YOU On?
What sounds better to you- financial independence or early retirement? Truth be told, they both actually sound pretty awesome to me! Before I began blogging a few months ago, I think that I thought that financial independence and early retirement were the same thing. However, in recent months I have come to realize that there […]
READ MORE >>Finding Our Road to Financial Independence
Our journey to finding our road to financial independence started in 2010. Well, we had dreams long before that, but 2010 was the year that we got clear about our goals and wrote them down. Looking back, it seems to me that this was when the journey started because this was when we realized that […]
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