Photo by bady abbas on Unsplash They say parenting lets you relive your childhood. Great, if you had an awesome one. Not so great if you didn’t. Mine nearly made me swear off having kids fore…| Millennial Revolution
Photo by Kaptan Ravi Thakkar @ Wikipedia “May you always life in interesting times.” –Ancient Chinese Proverb To which I reply: Shut the Hell up, Ancient China! Oh, we live in interesting tim…| Millennial Revolution
Photo by Chang Duong on Unsplash “How do I get my family and friends onboard the FIRE train? We’ve had little success. Some friends are excited in the beginning but lose steam over time. Others are…| Millennial Revolution
An article from the Atlantic caught my eye recently, entitled “‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special Over Being Happy”. As a recovering “Success Addict” who quit her competitive engineering corpor…| Millennial Revolution
Photo by Jorge Ramírez on Unsplash Hope you’re all having a good summer and not drowning in sweat like we are. When we’re not out at community pools or chasing our toddler around at playgrounds, we…| Millennial Revolution
What time is it? It’s reader case time! Hello – I’ve read your book Quit Like a Millionaire, which provided a lot of very useful information. I’ve now found your blog and am finding it interesting reading through. Thank you for sharing all of this information. I’m wondering if you’d be interested in doing a reader case on saving to help your disabled child become financially independent. I’m a 48 year old single mom and my son has cerebral palsy. He’s very bright but has...| Millennial Revolution
“Of all the bloggers and podcasts I’ve read and listened to, I never heard anything mentioned about CCB or Canadian Child Benefit. I would love it if you write a blog about this so that every…| Millennial Revolution
Now that we have a kid, naturally the next step is to buy a house, right? I mean, that’s what people tell us, anyway. Of all our friends and family members, the number of parents we know who chose to rent are next to nil. This is because not only is owning viewed by North Americans as the ultimate status symbol, renting carries a stigma. I’ve heard the phrase “renting is throwing your money away” and “home ownership is the key to wealth” so many times I can no longer roll my eyes ...| Millennial Revolution
Life is weird sometimes. We spend the first half of our lives trying not to get pregnant, and the 2nd half trying to get pregnant. And that’s how I found myself injecting strange chemicals into my belly at 7am in the public bathroom of my fertility clinic, with seconds to spare before my one-hour window ran out. Why they had to schedule my doctor’s appointment within an hour of the exact time I needed to administer the meds was beyond me. After feeling the biting sting of the meds as I pu...| Millennial Revolution
Now that we have an infant son, we no longer have the time to spend hours on the phone with Airbnb support, live in dangerous “ghost hotels” disguised as homes, or risk getting cancelled on last minute. Unfortunately, relying on hotels for long term stays wouldn’t work for us since we need a kitchen and laundry more than ever. Luckily (or unluckily), since we’ve had to get a long-term rental to stay around and help take care of my father-in-law over the past few years, we discovered a...| Millennial Revolution
TV show guest: “Back in my day, we didn’t have video games. The only toys we had were chalk that we used to draw on a sidewalk” Eric (*incredulous*): “You had chalk?” Me (*even more incredulous*): “You had a SIDEWALK?” I never expected to find my country bumpkin doppelganger in Miami, but that’s exactly what happened when I met my Airbnb host several years ago. A flight attendant who grew up in southern Kentucky, Eric had a surprisingly similar childhood to mine, despite being...| Millennial Revolution
Hi! I’m FIRECracker, a computer engineer/children’s author, and I used to live in one of the most expensive cities in Canada. Like my fellow Millennials, I was desperate to make my parents proud…| Millennial Revolution
What time is it? It’s reader case time! This reader case caught my eye because this international family decided to say no to the conventional North American 9-5 lifestyle by starting their own business and moving away from the US and to an island in the Pacific! They are also at a major turning point in their FIRE journey (something we’ve had experience with). So, without further ado, let’s get to it! /*********************************************************************************/ H...| Millennial Revolution
After being retired for 10 years and preaching about FIRE, I’ve learned somethings about why certain people are more resistant to FIRE than others, but overall, it’s still a mystery. In fact, even though we get daily e-mails from readers thanking us for helping them get to FI, most of our family and friends are surprisingly not interested at all. I thought this might have something to do with...| Millennial Revolution
Hi FIRECracker and Wanderer (and Little Matchstick), I could also title this, “I think I’m mathing my shit wrong.” I’ve never been a Mathlete and always like to use the excuse that I was an art student and the reason we’re “starving artists” is because they don’t teach us how to do math. I know that’s just an excuse but I really flounder around in anything having to do with arithmetic. To be honest, I spent the first part of my working life oblivious to the FIRE possibility....| Millennial Revolution
Every time I think this decade can’t get any crazier, I keep getting proved wrong. 2024 was never going to be a walk in the park, but holy shit! By now you’ve all heard that former President Trump narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by some nutjob at a rally in Pennsylvania. The investigation is ongoing, with updates seemingly every few hours revealing new details about the shooter, but regardless of how that goes, we’ve all just witnessed a pivotal moment in American political hi...| Millennial Revolution
I never thought raising a kid is like investing in the stock market…until I had a kid. Someone once described parenting to me as “winning the lottery while losing a leg”, and I didn’t quite get it but now I know they were trying to convey the emotional rollercoaster ride of having a kid. Compared to being childfree, the emotional highs are breathtakingly higher, but the lows are also devastatingly lower. Just like investing in the stock market, which is also an emotional rollercoaster...| Millennial Revolution
