8 Important Tips To Improve Your Finances (In Only 30 Days!)
While financial literacy and long-term money habits are the best ways to improve your finances, there are a few quick fixes that will go...
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Oct 44 min read
How To Use Real Estate to Retire Early: Tips & Tricks
Whether you’re looking to buy your own home, invest in extra real estate, or live in and flip homes, I have some real estate investing...
Our Rich Journey
Oct 45 min read
Stock Market Investing Tips To Help You Retire In Your 30s
Millennials have the opportunity of a lifetime in front of them - to do what Amon and I did, and retire before they turn 40! And the...
Our Rich Journey
Oct 44 min read
How You Can Use The SEP-IRA To Pay Less Tax On Your Side Hustle
If you’ve been making (or are planning to make) some of that sweet, sweet side hustle money, then you probably want to know how you can...
Our Rich Journey
Jul 45 min read
Can Day Trading Help You To Achieve FIRE?
Ever since Amon and I started sharing our FIRE journey with the world, we’ve been flooded with questions on a financial topic that we...
Our Rich Journey
Jun 254 min read
30-Day Challenge To Help You Reach FIRE
Who doesn’t like a 30-day challenge? They’re a great way to get you moving towards your goals. This is why I’ve compiled this great list...
Our Rich Journey
Jun 44 min read
How Financial Minimalism Can Help You To Retire Early
I’m confident in saying that if it weren’t for financial minimalism, Amon and I would not be millionaires today. And if you’re striving...
Our Rich Journey
May 314 min read
The 9 Money Mistakes Parents Make With Their Kids
If you don’t know already, my husband and I have two daughters in their early teens. And though we’re not perfect parents (who is?) we’ve...
Our Rich Journey
May 282 min read
Is P2P Lending A Good Investment?
So, is it a good investment? Well first, let’s look at the rate of return for these platforms. Take the P2P lending platform Prosper, for...
Our Rich Journey
May 224 min read
The 7 Financial Norms That Are Destroying Your Wealth
Whether we like it or not, many of us are throwing our wealth away every single day. This is in large part due to deeply ingrained...
Our Rich Journey
May 215 min read
How To Make $100 A Day With These Side Hustles
For those of us seeking financial independence, it often isn’t enough to save, save, and save. There’s only so much of your salary you...
Our Rich Journey
May 216 min read
How We Buy Real Estate In Up & Coming Neighborhoods | Financial Independence With Real Estate
Headline: 11 Tips on Identifying Up-And-Coming Real Estate Markets to Invest In As you guys likely know, real estate investing has been a...
Our Rich Journey
Mar 45 min read
Target Date Funds- Pros, Cons, and Whether They’re a Good Investment for FIRE
Target date funds (TDFs)are very popular retirement investments. They’ve become so popular that many people think that TDFs are the...
Our Rich Journey
Feb 75 min read
Market Timing: How it Can Sabotage Your Portfolio, and our Alternatives
Back in 2020 Amon and I started a video series on our stock portfolio. We invested a lump sum of $5000 into the stock market and added...
Our Rich Journey
Feb 75 min read
401(k) Accounts - How We Invested in Them To Achieve Financial Independence & Retire Early
The Best Ways To Invest In Your 401k Today we’re going to talk about the most effective ways to invest in your retirement accounts. And...
Our Rich Journey
Jan 235 min read
Living in Spain vs Portugal: Why We Picked Portugal!
When Amon and I were on the path to achieving financial independence, we had an important choice to make. We knew we wanted to settle...
Our Rich Journey
Jan 237 min read
Investing a Large Sum of Money: What to Do, What NOT to Do, and How to Invest for F.I.R.E.
Amon and I talk a lot about investing - mainly because investing is such a vital piece of the F.I.R.E. journey. Not only that, but Amon...
Our Rich Journey
Jan 236 min read
Using Our 7 Account Drawdown Strategy to Live Off Investments in Early Retirement
Getting to retirement is one thing. When we start our FIRE journey it’s likely the most important thing. But what about once we finally...
Our Rich Journey
Jan 235 min read
Best Vanguard ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) for Financial Independence
The Best Vanguard ETFs For Financial Independence I want to talk about ETFs, and how our investments in ETFs have been a huge help in...
Our Rich Journey
Jan 235 min read
Travel Hacking | How to Travel the World for FREE!
Over the years Amon and I have spent a lot of time traveling the world, totally free of charge. This includes countries like Spain,...
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