Camp FIRE Finance
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From FIRE Hedgehog …
Financial preparation is seriously important. It only takes one unplanned event, one emergency that you can’t afford, to send you back down the spiral of debt that so many have worked their backsides off trying to get out of.
Make an emergency fund the priority, before any debt overpayments, any little ‘treats’. Trust me here, you don’t need a superhero, you can save yourselves!
Be your own Superhero With an Emergency Fund – FIRE Hedgehog
LIGHT A FIRE UNDER YOUR RETIREMENT! 
From Slowly Sipping Coffee … “There has been a lot going on in the SSC household this year, with me getting positioned to move into a leadership role at work and Mrs. SSC making it to a finalist position for a new job at another university. These changes may or may not shake up our […]
From The Financially Savvy … Ever wonder what steps you could take right now that would help you get better control of your money? Look no further than this post. These 5 financial goals are achievable within a week and are also fundamental to your financial health. Five Financial Goals that are Achievable this Week […]
You might feel the need to spice up your finances by doing some sub-optimal stuff. Don’t bother. Embrace the boringness. Your Personal Finances Should Be Boring – Financial Uproar Related
From 30 and 0 … Enough is a word that seems to exist in many areas of our life. We’ve had enough or just about enough on any given day. I won’t lie there will be a healthy amount of puns involving enough in this article. However, the enough I’d like to talk and rant […]
From Side Hustle Nation … FoodTruckEmpire.com generates $60k a year on the side from Brett Lindenberg’s marketing consulting job. “I started the blog at a time in my life when I was looking at just a whole bunch of different business ideas,” Brett said. Originally, Brett wanted to start his own food truck. While researching how […]
From Financial Genome Project … “Only when borrowers have access to efficient credit networks can they escape from the clutches of loan sharks, and only when savers can deposit their money in reliable banks can it be channeled from the idle rich to the industrious poor.” ~Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money People who become debt […]
From The Savvy Couple … Being an adult can be tough! Getting thrown into the world with little or no financial direction is asking for trouble. Over the past decade, Brittany and I have made plenty of our own money mistakes. Some of which were fairly harmless and others that cost us thousands of dollars. Most […]
From Prairie FIRE Canada … In my wild and crazy journey in discovering the FIRE movement, I was inspired to create and stick to a budget, and I began tracking my net worth over time. By doing this over a year, I discovered something that was so obvious that I think many bloggers and personal […]
Last week my wife left me and the kids for the week so that she could fly home to visit her dad, who is battling cancer. Before leaving she took time to write a note for me with a detailed breakdown of what needed to happen daily for each of our four kids, as if […]
From Debt Discipline … There is a classic question in personal finance circles about debt and investment: Should I invest if I have debt? There are different ways to answer the question, but the most common response urges individuals to invest only when return rates exceed the interest rate of personal debts. Here are some […]
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