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The quality of life of a middle / upper middle-class individual today was probably better than Rockefeller's. imo

Okay...all these numbers seemed a lot better than mine so I needed to go back and verify what I actually paid for my car and see what the real math is. March 2013 I paid $30,717 cash. This included taxes, tags, etc. According to my understanding of the settlement calculations I should get...

One interesting article I read indicates that VW needs to have a certain percentage of the cars off the road by the end of the settlement period. The presumption in the article was that if they do not get many takers they will up the price. Regardless, I will happily drive my car until the...

Actually there is a provision for that as well. There is a certain window where I think this is correct. It's a small window.

Anyone else part of the VW Court Settlement? Paperwork came today for me. There were no surprises and it seems as the news media has reported it. If I'm understanding everything correctly I can drive my car until Sept 2018. Return it then and get a cash settlement equal to the Sept 2015...

. . . or say you are and pimp your blog. :-/ :dance: :coolsmiley: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-couple-saved-1-million-130858190.html

:dance: +1

Read today on the Web . . . "and I thought Brexit was something that happened an hour after Wafflehouse."

Ha! Just the opposite. It's a moral imperative to buy the dip. Otherwise those sellers would have no exit and end up with nothing!

Congrats! FIRED at 41 (which is very early), a reasonably cushy lifestyle, manageable expenses, a solid portfolio, and you don't even have a blog to [-]sell[/-] tell your story. You actually can do whatever you really want to! ;-) Seriously though...mega congrats! Excited to hear about the...

That and the BILLIONS of dollars that are spent on psychological warfare to get you to part with your money what is often a false need.

I'm re-reading some of this thread and read their blog some. I have had a successful career in technology. But I think I'm getting old. I love the idea of banking a million and enjoying life some in my 30's. Maybe if I'm lucky and the sequence of returns is right, never working solely for...

Use of sarcasm is an art -- some of us draw stick figures.

Great read. I'm a high extrovert...bride is a high introvert. I wish I knew this stuff during the first 20 years of marriage! It would have made for a much better relationship. I would have been far more accepting and patient. I read the book referenced (The Introvert Advantage) after I saw...

There you go! I missed the post about blog-tirement. Nothing wrong at all with blogtirement. There are plenty of professional bloggers out there . . . the only ones some of us get a become out of sorts with is is when they put the cart before the horse. To me it's like push-polling and...

And the added point that some are making is that it may be a bit disingenuous to start a blog about how you're early retired when the numbers clearly wouldn't support it by most objective measures. With a hope of the income from said blog making up the difference. There's no difference...

I think you're misrepresenting the opinion expressed by the naysayers.

My understanding is that people are objecting more to them (or the article writers) promoting this as retired when it seems more likely to many of us that they've chosen to live a nomadic, spartan lifestyle after banking a large sum of money and creating some side cash flow through blogging...

I suppose we can call every business person doing what they love as retired.

Wow just looked at PC affiliate program! $100 per signup with 100k in assets. Not bad. I may need to unretire. :-)

:laugh: Good one.

Actually, they won't have to. An article like that is gold for them. The blog traffic and regular readers it will get them just supplemented their income another $500 per month! Fuego, what's Personal Capital paying these days? Bruno and wife have links to it as well. Does PC pay per trial...

Do they have the means to snowboard 52 weeks / year and remain retired?

It's a little something called intellectual honesty and integrity. Something that seems lost in America since people starting hearing things like "it depends what the definition of is, is."

Exactly. My brother lives in the San Fran area. I live in the DC area. Not too many places cost more. Owning a paid-for house and two modest cars can cost over $20K a year in taxes, utilities, insurance, maintenance, fuel. Add $10K for healthcare (h/w) and another $10K for food and you're...