Heartland on FIRE

Blazing a Trail Towards Financial Independence

Blazing a Trail Towards Financial Independence

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Making Dough to Save Dough

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A key to living a great life and reaching Financial Independence (FI) is to find the activities that truly make you happy and make them priorities.  The purpose of this article to to focus on one activity that I am passionate about:

Making Pizza

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Fight the Winter… With Weather Stripping

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I don’t know where you live, but its been bone chilling cold here.  Like, at or below zero for several consecutive days with wind chills in the negative double digits.  If there was any doubt…there is none now.  It’s clear that:

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Life Can Be Grand Living in the Heartland

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If you’ve read the About this Blog page you know that the Heartland on FIRE crew lives near St. Louis, MO.  Smack dab in the middle of America’s Heartland… a place that many call “Flyover Country”.

Now at first blush, the Heartland doesn’t offer ocean views, rocky mountains, the trendiest restaurants or shopping, or the highest paying jobs in country.  It’s also true that the weather tends to be bipolar (super hot and humid in one moment and bitterly cold the next).  As I am writing this the temperature has dropped from the mid 60s down into the 20s! What the hell?  So, it’s understandable why many think the way they do.

However, for those of us on the path to FI, you may find that Heartland living can be a secret weapon to achieving FI significantly sooner.

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