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I've been away from this board for the last few months since work was just about as stressful as it could be ...my manager called it 'tightening the thumb screws' - about 5 separate tasks where each is easily a full time job... the irony is that on my last 2 years performance appraisals where...

Yeah... I know - looks like a misplaced thread. But seriously, when titles like this are true then bubbles a' brewing. 2 funny news articles today correlate well... funny. So Cal real estate went up a record 17% from last July to this July. As I've said before I feel crazy not selling - but I...

I gotta say this FIRE site is somewhat addictive - sunday morning always is the time when the freedom mantra is reaffirmed. Anyway, gotta say after a peruse of the site this morning, I got my order into amazon - Tell me how bad I am buying new books, maybe not that bad considering free...

I don't precisely do coffeehouse allocations since I'm stuck with a certain amount of company stock (4% matching funds go into company stock) and my home in lieu of REITS. I am also heavily weighted in S&P500 - but ready to reallocate in the next coming months. I am surprised by coffeehouse's...

I'm just saying why don't we all eat rice and red beans and retire at the first possible moment.... because you want those extras. Cut the extras and LBYM and beat me at 45.

I haven't read the book yet but it's in my top ten book list - here's a preview by the author himself. http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript1105.html I remember growing up reading 20 year old issues of popular mechanics thinking that back then it's just starting to pay off - and that was 20...

Sunday on a cool (almost summer) night before the chaos of a monday work day... does it bother anyone else besides me that when you sum up the widsom of this board - whether it's a 2% SWR or 4% ... a full days days work - if saved for FIRE afetr basic expenses - only adds between 2 or 3 cents a...