Financial Independence

Question https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/22/how-to-save-50-percent-of-your-income-from-people-who-have-done-it.html Most of it is basic stuff but good for someone who’s just starting out. Edit: Been following this sub for a while just thought I’d start posting and sharing a bit more Answers Someone answered: Step 1: Spend less ...

Question I read the sidebar links and others but I am still financially illiterate especially when it comes to the stock market and taxes. (Assume in this scenario that there are no special retirement accounts like 401k or IRA.) Let’s ...

Question I’m currently at the stage where I’ve hit the maximum contribution for an IRA ($6,000 into VTSAX for 2019) and am contributing 4% to my 401K to achieve my employer match of 4%. However, I’m now at a ...

Question How does anyone deal when work is just counting down the days until each paycheck? When your’re fairly financially stable but not FIREd yet? Knowing that being fired won’t matter to you but more troublesome then anything. Answers Someone answered:

Question [Ameritrade](https://s1.q4cdn.com/959385532/files/doc_downloads/research/2018/Millennials-and-Money-survey.pdf) put out a report on millienials and money (data from spring 2018, but didn’t see a post about it when searching). It’s similar to the [FIRE Survey](https://s1.q4cdn.com/959385532/files/doc_downloads/research/2018/FIRE-Survey-full-research.pdf) they posted a few months ago. Surveyed 1500 ...

Question It’s a tough question, but I think most people here are ones that think for themselves. Have you ever found anything about FIRE that made you stop considering it? Do you think it’s unrealistic at some times/countries? ...

Question Self-promotion (ie posting about projects/businesses that you operate and can profit from) is typically a practice that is discouraged in /r/financialindependence, and these posts are removed through moderation. This is a thread where those rules *do ...

Question Please use this thread to have discussions which you don’t feel warrant a new post to the sub. While the Rules for posting questions on the basics of personal finance/investing topics are relaxed a little bit here, ...

Question https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/3478332002 Has some nice case stories and examples. Pretty good overview too. Answers Someone answered: TLDR of FIRE. work towards increasing your earning power and save by spending less than you earn. and put those savings into things ...

Question https://medium.com/@wokesalaryman/all-the-things-i-had-to-do-to-save-100-000-before-i-turned-30-cfd21a0006d2?fbclid=IwAR2_cll9QMOZgEE5QyTL2jrlVvadEpBsE3LZakbZzzLF1WprB7qlev12lq0 Answers Someone answered: Nice! This sub is awesome, but many details are hard to relate to if you aren’t in the US. Appreciate the Asian perspective Someone answered: Nice to see another Singaporean here, the Singapore FI sub is ...