In today’s Friday Roundup we discuss travel rewards, flipping holidays upside down, buying presents, the upcoming FI Documentary and much more.
Podcast Episode Summary
- Submit your applications for the contest to win a one-on-one business coaching relationship with Alan Donegan from PopUp Business School
- Brad’s slow travel vacation through New York State this August
- How we’ll publish episodes while on vacation and living a FI lifestyle
- Discussion of Episode 31 on travel rewards
- Clarification of Brad’s past and future travel rewards strategy
- Feedback from the audience: Pastor FI on how he switches Mother’s Day and Father’s Day
- Feedback from Frank on not doing things on holidays or other busy times. Don’t wait in line “with the lemmings”
- If you’re busy all the time, you need to come up with strategies to make your life better
- How Jonathan feels that buying cards for holidays are a terrible waste of money
- Brad and Laura don’t exchange presents for any holidays/birthdays/etc.
- Jonathan’s spending habits for presents for his friends and family
- How essential the concept of progress is in the pursuit of FI and the pursuit of happiness
- Voicemail from Scott Rieckens on how he’s starting a documentary about the FI community
- How we can grow the FI movement through this documentary and by spreading the word
- We’re going to have Scott on the podcast and he’s going to tell us about his Kickstarter campaign for the documentary
- Question from Bonnie about tax implications in early retirement
- Response from Keith from the Wealthy Accountant
- Follow up from Brad on action he took to sell his comic book collection
- Email from David how he wants to hire Jonathan’s wife Dani to do an audio book version of the book he intends to publish
- Frugal wins of the week from our community
- Can you share items with your neighbors and save money?
- Itunes reviews and book giveaway
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