Blazing a Trail Towards Financial Independence
Fall has arrived. The heat is gone, the leaves are changing, and college football is actually here. September brought a whirlwind of activity and there seems to be no letup anytime soon. Did our rental home sale finally go through? Read on to find out.
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I was just getting settled into my summer grove. And… it’s gone. Just like that August is in the rear view mirror and the school year has started. This month was a wild ride and quite frankly, I am happy to have it behind us.
[Read more…] about Net Worth Update 33: Here We Go Again
We’ve past the midpoint on the year and started the downhill portion. And the world around us seems just as crazy as ever. As crazy as everything is and has been, we tried to Get Out in July in more ways than one.
[Read more…] about Net Worth Update 32: Getting Out
The saga that is 2020 has reached the mid-point. In a year where nothing is what we thought it would be at the start of the year, we take a look back to autopsy the first half. So let’s crack this corpse open and see what’s inside.
[Read more…] about Heartland on FIRE 2020 Mid-Year Spending Update
Max Q is a state in the aerospace industry where a rocket reaches its maximum dynamic pressure. It puts the rocket at the very edge of its design capacity. In some respects, May felt that way. There was (and still is) a lot going on. There is never a dull moment! With that in mind, how did we do?
[Read more…] about Net Worth Update 30 – Max Q
This year seems like an extended episode of the Twilight Zone. Every day something new and extremely weird seems to crop up. Often times things seem to be completely out of sync. Take the stock market for instance: the economy is essentially frozen, millions upon millions are unemployed, people aren’t paying rent and there is an oil price war… yet the market surged upward in April. With that in mind, how did we do?
[Read more…] about Net Worth Update 29: Bizarro World