A working dad, starting a long journey to reach FIRE, contentment, or both.
When 2018 was about to start, I set a few goals for the year. I didn’t make any resolutions, because I don’t do that anymore; they seemed to absolute, and once broken, resolutions are easy to forget entirely. Goals allow me to work toward something. So…how’d I do? Let’s review 2018.
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In a response to my comment on someone else’s post, a reference was made to whether I was a follower of Dave Ramsey or Robert Kiyosaki. Obviously, most of us in the Desperately-Seeking-FIRE genre know: 1) who Dave Ramsey and Robert Kiyosaki are; and 2) that they have very different financial philosophies. For a long time, I could have answered in a split-second which of them I preferred. But is the answer quite so simple as that? It may not be anymore, at least for me.
Having recently gotten back from a Thanksgiving vacation (road trip across four states!), I had had to think about how to maintain my coffee habit/caffeine addiction while away from my trusty kettle and Trader Joe’s instant coffee. Though I cut down from two cups a day to one a couple of months ago (thus saving quite a bit of money right there), doing so took long enough, with many caffeine withdrawal headaches to boot, that I don’t I’m quite ready to try to cut down much further. And so, driving almost a thousand miles across the country, I had to have my coffee, at least once, every day.