June 27, 2018
For several years now, we used Wealthfront for our taxable stock accounts. It is a great service, in fact, I wrote about why I liked it so much a while ago. Well, like everything in life, things change. And we’ve decided to move all our money away from Wealthfront and into Vanguard to hold our brokerage account. Why did we…
March 7, 2018
Welcome to Part 5 of the FIRE small business series. You can see the Introduction and summary of what we are talking about here. You should also read the disclaimer: ***Disclaimer *** This is written for educational purposes. I am writing to explain my understanding of these principles. Please, do your own research and talk to a licensed professional before…
February 28, 2018
Welcome to Part 4 of the FIRE small business series. You can see the Introduction and summary of what we are talking about here. You should also read the disclaimer: ***Disclaimer *** This is written for educational purposes. I am writing to explain my understanding of these principles. Please, do your own research and talk to a licensed professional before…
February 21, 2018
Welcome to Part 3 of the FIRE small business series. You can see the Introduction and summary of what we are talking about here. You should also read the disclaimer: ***Disclaimer *** This is written for educational purposes. I am writing to explain my understanding of these principles. Please, do your own research and talk to a licensed professional before…
February 7, 2018
Welcome to Part 2 of the FIRE small business series. You can see the Introduction and summary of what we are talking about here. You should also read the disclaimer: ***Disclaimer *** This is written for educational purposes. I am writing to explain my understanding of these principles. Please, do your own research and talk to a licensed professional before…
January 24, 2018
Welcome to Part 1 of the FIRE small business series. You can see the Introduction and summary of what we are talking about here. You should also read the disclaimer here: ***Disclaimer *** This is written for educational purposes. I am writing to explain my understanding of these principles. Please, do your own research and talk to a licensed professional…
January 22, 2018
Since we’ve set up Mrs. Wow’s company, I’ve had several discussions with people about how it was set up and what we did with retirement plans, accounting, expenses and all the rest of it. There’s a lot of literature out there about starting a company. Like a shit ton. 273MM results!!! And there’s also a whole lot about retirement accounts. …
December 13, 2017
An on-going discussion in this blogging community is how do we go about spreading the word. I’ve been privy to several discussions about how to breech the subject with people outside of this community. How do you get them interested and bring up the topic, with out sounding like one of those crazy Southern Preachers? Everyone has tried various ways,…
October 4, 2017
FIRE is a long journey, it’s a marathon if you will. And it takes a long time to finally reach FIRE, and once you’re there, I can only imagine the freedom and relief you get when Sunday evening rolls around. You get ready for bed. Then you get up Monday morning… and you continue on with your weekend. What a…
August 16, 2017
A Marathon History Legend has it that Pheidippides ran from Marathon to Athens to spread word of the Greek victory over the Persians at the Battle of Marathon. He ran the entire distance and busted into the assembly of the government, proclaimed, “Victory!” and promptly dropped dead on the scene. Apparently, this distance between Marathon and Athens is precisely…