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
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
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
