Oldster on FIRE https://www.oldsteronfire.com/ Financial Independence Seen Through Some Gray Hair and Bi-Focals Tue, 28 Jan 2020 21:45:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 130584327 Our Kids and Money https://www.oldsteronfire.com/our-kids-and-money/ https://www.oldsteronfire.com/our-kids-and-money/#comments Tue, 28 Jan 2020 21:45:17 +0000 https://www.oldsteronfire.com/?p=877 A couple of years ago I wrote a post on Kids and Money.  As our daughter prepares for her final high school year, I thought it would be proper to review what our positions were in that post, and update … Continue reading →

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]]> https://www.oldsteronfire.com/our-kids-and-money/feed/ 1 877 Fear and FIRE https://www.oldsteronfire.com/fear-and-fire/ Sun, 19 Jan 2020 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.oldsteronfire.com/?p=863 The concept of FIRE has been in the news a lot more over the last year or so.  I remember when I first discovered that it was even a thing my first notion was “where was this when I was … Continue reading →

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]]> 863 Reprise: Fear is the Mindkiller https://www.oldsteronfire.com/reprise-fear-is-the-mindkiller/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 16:27:05 +0000 https://www.oldsteronfire.com/?p=859 Greetings fellow FIRE followers! I’m reposting something I wrote a couple of years ago about fear. As relevant today as it was when originally posted. I’m working on another post about another aspect of fear that should be up by … Continue reading →

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]]> 859 Mid-Life Crisis? https://www.oldsteronfire.com/mid-life-crisis/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 19:53:57 +0000 https://www.oldsteronfire.com/?p=852 Nope, well, probably not.  For the few dozens of you who have frequented my blog, you may have wondered where I’ve been.  I’ve kind of been wondering the same thing.  Life is full of hills and valleys, problems and solutions, … Continue reading →

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]]> 852 Systems vs. Goals – Some Support for an Earlier Post https://www.oldsteronfire.com/systems-vs-goals-some-support-for-an-earlier-post/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:32:33 +0000 https://www.oldsteronfire.com/?p=847 Some of you may remember a post I put up a few months ago arguing that one should use systems instead of goals (I’m going to rerun that in a bit below).  I was perusing Pocket the other day and … Continue reading →

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]]> 847 Reprise – Time=Money, Health=Time, so Health=Money https://www.oldsteronfire.com/reprise-timemoney-healthtime-so-healthmoney/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 18:46:14 +0000 https://www.oldsteronfire.com/?p=844 It’s been a busy month, but I wanted to share this post from last year about health and money.  The re-share was prompted by my regular physical.  I’m still ticking, though I could be doing better.  Money has always been … Continue reading →

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]]> 844 Whence With Our Wealth When We Are No More? https://www.oldsteronfire.com/whence-with-our-wealth-when-we-are-no-more/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:47:59 +0000 https://www.oldsteronfire.com/?p=832 We spend a lot of time in this community discussing the accumulation of wealth and the tenets of living frugally so that we can retire early (well, so that you can retire early – it is too late for me … Continue reading →

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]]> 832 If You Want to be Rich – Read, Read, then Read Some More https://www.oldsteronfire.com/if-you-want-to-be-rich-read-read-then-read-some-more/ Fri, 03 Aug 2018 13:01:19 +0000 https://www.oldsteronfire.com/?p=825 If you been around this community long enough and read enough posts/articles, you get a bunch of tips on how you can work, hack, earn, side-hustle, or invest your way to Financial Independence.  I’ve read a good number of these … Continue reading →

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]]> 825 The Absolutely True Cost of Everything https://www.oldsteronfire.com/the-absolutely-true-cost-of-everything/ https://www.oldsteronfire.com/the-absolutely-true-cost-of-everything/#comments Fri, 13 Jul 2018 21:47:01 +0000 https://www.oldsteronfire.com/?p=805 When you think about what things actually cost, your mind is likely to think in terms of dollars and cents (or Euros and cents for my friends across the pond).  But the dollar cost of things is only the beginning. … Continue reading →

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]]> https://www.oldsteronfire.com/the-absolutely-true-cost-of-everything/feed/ 2 805 Reprise – The 4% Rule: What it is, and What it is not https://www.oldsteronfire.com/reprise-the-4-rule-what-it-is-and-what-it-is-not/ Thu, 28 Jun 2018 22:32:21 +0000 https://www.oldsteronfire.com/?p=800 We are still in the process of moving.  I’ve been reading a lot about this recently and thought I’d share a post from last year. The 4% Rule is probably not exactly what you think it is.  To be fair, … Continue reading →

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