What You’ll Get Out Of Today’s Show Setting up your financial life includes updating your investor policy statement and examining the rationale for equal weighting inside your index funds. Brad is giving his physical fitness a boost in December with a month-long burpee challenge. A full-body exercise that can be
When your goal is Financial Independence, you watch your spending and saving very carefully all year. But that doesn’t diminish the need for a year-end financial checklist. On that checklist are things that you should do at the end of every single calendar year to make sure your finances are
What You’ll Get Out Of Today’s Show It’s no secret that Brad and Jonathan’s families are board game fans. One way they can typically save 20-60% on the cost of board games is by watching for price drops on Amazon using CamelCamelCamel. Brad was able to save a substantial amount
1% Better: Building Life Skills Our family’s latest obsession is the cooking show ‘MasterChef Junior’ with Gordon Ramsay. Early in Season 6, Gordon demonstrated how to make an incredible pan-seared chicken breast. My daughter Molly is learning to cook and wanted to test this out. The next night she gave
The Value of Blank Space We talk on the podcast about the value of blank space on our calendars – what we affectionately call the “Red X Month.” Take a red marker and draw a huge “X” over an entire month and plan nothing during that time. While I’m incredibly
Words to Live By: Jerzy Gregorek Edition I’ve often mentioned Jerzy Gregorek’s masterful “Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life” quote, as I think it is a framework for long-term success in FI and in life. Possibly even more profound is this from Jerzy: “Try to be around people
My Fail of the Week: Last Week’s Email Communication is all about getting your point across, and last week I had a colossal fail when talking about Amazon Smile. There was a lackluster response, which means I did a terrible job of communicating and that’s 100% on me. This is important,
What You’ll Get Out Of Today’s Show After 18 years of ownership, Brad says goodbye to his beloved Honda Civic, Golden Boy. When it comes to car ownership, ChooseFI often talks about only buying a new car every 15 years. Over a 45 year adult lifetime, the savings, when invested,
Households of FI – Kristi What You’ll Get Out Of Today’s Show Resources Mentioned In Today’s Conversation
What You’ll Get Out Of Today’s Show In this ChooseFI Back to Basics episode, we review Health Savings Accounts (HSA). What happens when you need to finally pull money out after funding it year after year? ChooseFI Chief Content Officer, MK, is just weeks away from having her baby. For
The path to financial independence requires diligence and hard work. It would be a tragedy if all that effort is undone with one uncontrollable incident. While predicting what specific event may occur is virtually impossible, we can prepare for the fact that “something” may happen. Insurance is a financial tool that transfers
Experiencing an emergency that you’re not prepared for is the quickest way to have your finances go haywire. That means knowing how to build an emergency fund is one of the first things you should do when you’re working to get control of your finances. Emergencies can incur debt that
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