(Featured image of medications courtesy Unsplash.com) It happens every time. Dawn goes to the pharmacy to pick up prescriptions, and the prices are different. Higher. She could just accept the changes, pay with a gulp, and hurry out of the store. But instead, she sets her purse down on the counter and settles in for some negotiation. You could call her a prescription-buying veteran. Because she must take pituitary hormone replacement medications every day, Dawn's been filling …
Book Review – Choose FI: Your Blueprint To Financial Independence
If you’re in the FIRE sphere or interested in financial independence and haven’t yet heard of the Choose FI podcast, you had better get to downloading and binge-listening now. Since starting their podcast in 2017, Brad Barrett and Jonathan Mendonsa have chronicled their own and many others’ journeys to FI. At the same time, they’ve built a nationwide community of like-minded people through an active Facebook group with local spinoffs, many of which hold monthly meetups. Chris Mamula, who …
Compare Yourself to… Your Former Self
We were all at the park the other day, and Aspen quickly slid down the slide that had given her fear months ago. Then she looked over at the pole. It was the type you'd see in an old firehouse - a straight vertical pole of hand-width diameter, extending from an arc off the top floor of the play structure down into the wood chips on the ground. "What's this for?" she said. It's for sliding down. Here, like this, with your legs wrapped around. "I can't," she said, while feebly pointing her …
The Stealth Wealth Family Manifesto
What is stealth wealth? In financial circles, it's not a new concept. The Millionaire Next Door, a classic book we read back in the late 90's, exemplified the idea by pointing out that many millionaires are unassuming. And they're millionaires in part due to their simplicity of choices for housing, cars, etc. Physician on Fire wrote an explanatory post about the concept in the early days of his blog. To us, the term wealth has rich meaning - both literally and figuratively. It's not just …