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Financial Mistake #10: Vanity – On a Whim Purchases

Financial Mistakes · August 8, 2021

Vanity.  Oh, vanity.  Cloaked insecurity stitched together by threads of belonging.  Vain glory.  Sitting on …

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Financial Mistake #9: Delisted Stock – Yep, I got Fucked

Financial Mistakes · February 21, 2021

Financial Mistake #9 – Delisted Stock – Yep, I got fucked Well, my Q-FI-ians, my little Q-FI-aridos, it’s been a long time …

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Financial Mistake #8: Not Maxing Out My 401K Early Enough

Financial Mistakes · December 20, 2020

Financial Mistake #8 – Not Maxing out my 401K Early Enough  I’ve seen some posts recently, that are saying it might not be the best …

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Financial Mistake #7: Not Leaving My Company After Finishing My MBA

Financial Mistakes · October 18, 2020

Financial Mistake #7:  Not Leaving My Company After Finishing My MBA   I’m going to start this one off with a rant, …

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Financial Mistake #6: Not Utilizing Tax Efficiencies With A Reduced Income

Financial Mistakes · July 5, 2020

Financial Mistake #6 – not utilizing tax efficiencies when unemployed and in a low tax bracket.  This is a tough one for me.  …

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Financial Mistake #5: A New Car – To Buy or Not To Buy?

Financial Mistakes · May 13, 2020

Have you ever bought a brand spankin’ new car?  I have.  Was it a bad decision?  Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as …

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Financial Mistake #4: Dreaming of Tax-Free Gains in my Roth IRA

Financial Mistakes · April 12, 2020

It’s been awhile boys and girls since the self-proclaimed not FI guru Q-FI has let down his guard and jumped into his world-famous …

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Financial Mistake #3: Chasing Gains with Individual Stocks

Financial Mistakes · January 15, 2020

It’s been a little while since I’ve done a financial mistakes post, so I thought it was time to knock one out.  Maybe I’ve …

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Financial Mistakes – Why the Denial?

Financial Mistakes · December 1, 2019

This is going to be a rant.  But sometimes rant posts are fun.  Let’s see what happens...  Before I get too far along in …

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Change is a peculiar thing.  Sometimes it happens fast, and sometimes it happens slow.  Sometimes we see it in ourselves, and sometimes only others can see it in us.  Last year, when I took a family trip in the fall to Portland, ME, something happened (well a few things actually) that reinforced a change in my wife […]

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