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A Safari Trip to Aldi – A Reaction Not a Review

Reactions NOT Reviews · February 23, 2020

They got me.  Those damn FI fanatics.  They finally got me... got me good.  You know when you hear something so often, …

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Being Happy for Others While Working Through Disappointment: Part II

Introspection · February 19, 2020

Being Happy For Others While Working Through Disappointment – Part II:  If you haven’t read: Being …

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Being Happy for Others While Working Through Disappointment – Part I

Introspection · February 16, 2020

Being Happy for Others While Working Through Disappointment – Part I:  This was getting too long so I have to break it up into two …

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Sometimes We Lose Sight of the Bigger Picture

Reflections on FI · February 12, 2020

I did it.  I am guilty.  You hear those stories of people who get obsessed with FI... they cross that line into …

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My Financial System – How I Manage the Q-FI Kingdom

Investing · February 9, 2020

Systems, systems, systems.  I’ll show you mine if you show me yours?  Hahaha...  How do you track your finances?  …

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What is it that Sparked your FIRE Journey?

Reflections on FI · February 5, 2020

Now that I’ve been writing on the blog for a few months, I want to look back and take a little time to reflect on what actually sparked my …

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Why I Switched my Accountant and Hired a CFP?

Investing · February 2, 2020

I mentioned this briefly in my “2019 - A Year in Review" post, but I wanted to write a full article on why I switched my accountant and …

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Q-FI’s 2019 Spending – My First Year of Tracking

FI Status · January 29, 2020

This is kind of embarrassing being a finance guy, but I have never tracked my expenses before.  2019 was the first year that I finally …

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The True Emotional Cost of Looking in the Mirror

Reflections on FI · January 26, 2020

What is the true emotional cost of looking in the mirror?  Let me say that again but slowly, and try to think about what I am …

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Ruminations On A FI Milestone – First Backdoor Roth IRA

June 21, 2020 By Q-FI 2 Comments

Ah… the FI milestones.  The sacred and unassailable truths that make the FI community what it is.  Look underneath the hood of that unstoppable, dogmatic FI machine and you’ll see the elaborate clockwork of the financial independence rhetoric ticking away like the birth of time itself.  I’m even guilty of it.  Before I found my […]

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