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Archives for August 2016

The Best Personal Finance Books of All Time: Your Money or Your Life

August 31, 2016 By ESI 10 Comments

Review of the book Your Money or Your Life

This post is the latest in my series on the Best Personal Finance Books of All Time. As a refresher, we've already covered: The Millionaire Next Door The Richest Man in Babylon Bogleheads' Guide to Investing The Automatic Millionaire Today we'll discuss Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial … [Read more...]

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How Can This ESI Reader Buy a Business?

August 30, 2016 By ESI 8 Comments

Here's an email I received yesterday from a reader: I am writing to get your advice (or maybe the advice of your readers) on how to go about buying out the current owner of the company I work for, or going out on my own. Some history of the company I currently work for: They are a small communications company with less than 20 employees. The have been in business … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Earn

Costco Car Pricing is Good, But Not Better than My Method

August 29, 2016 By ESI 17 Comments

Review of the Costco car buying program

Summary: This post reviews the Costco car buying program and its associated pricing compared to negotiating a purchase on your own. After I got a great deal on my latest car purchase using my tried and true method for saving a fortune on a car I was in Costco shopping a bit. As I exited the store, I saw a small flyer on the Costco car buying program. Their car-buying … [Read more...]

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Can This ESI Reader Retire?

August 26, 2016 By ESI 32 Comments

Can this person retire?

Here's an interesting, real-life situation that I'd like to get feedback on. I know there are some really smart ESI readers out there, and I need your thoughts. The other day I received the following email from a reader (FYI, I've edited a bit for brevity but haven't changed the substance of our conversation): I would greatly appreciate your opinion on my current … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Retirement

Five Steps to Six Figures in Seven Years

August 24, 2016 By ESI 11 Comments

How to make a six-figure income

As you can tell from the title, this piece is kind of provocative. That's the way I like it. :) I actually wrote this post several years ago and am updating it now. The promise in the title is even easier now than it was then and much easier than it was for me when I completed the task almost 25 years ago. Of course, six figures isn't what it used to be either, but I'm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Career, Earn

Recent Credit Card Moves

August 22, 2016 By ESI 24 Comments

How I make money using credit cards

Since I wrote How to Earn Thousands with Credit Card Rewards there has been a good amount of change in my credit card strategy. I thought I'd share those changes with you and hear what you are doing these days with your card strategy. FYI, Quicken shows that I have redeemed about $830 so far in cash back rewards this year. Not bad, huh? That said, some of the monies … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Earn

My Retirement Story, Part 3

August 19, 2016 By ESI 54 Comments

Part three of how I retired at 52

My last post was the second in the series on my retirement. If you missed it or the previous one, post one was titled I Retired! and post two was My Retirement Story, Part 2. With that said, let's continue the story. Working Out the Financials Given the bad situation at work (my boss, the business, and my lack of interest) as well as my personal desire to accomplish … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About, Retirement

My Retirement Story, Part 2

August 17, 2016 By ESI 27 Comments

Part two of how I retired at 52

Last time we started a series of posts on my retirement. If you missed that and want to read it, check out I Retired! Let's pick up where we left off. Business Results Lagging Our business was "ok" but not great. Then the perfect storm hit. Our first quarter had been propped up by a seasonal selling event where customers had to buy from us. The second quarter had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About, Retirement

I Retired!!!

August 15, 2016 By ESI 55 Comments

I retired at 52

Yep, I retired. At 52. Feels great. :) I'll give you all the details of why, how, etc. over three posts -- all this week. Thinking About Retirement In case you all haven't noticed, I've been writing a lot lately about retirement. And not just retirement in general, but my retirement specifically. For example, consider these posts: Various Forms of Retirement … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About, Retirement

My Jobs, Introduction to the Real World

August 12, 2016 By ESI 8 Comments

My intro to the real working world

I've now shared my pre-college jobs, my college jobs, and the jobs I held while in graduate school. Today we'll cover my first "real" job. The fact that I had this job at all was somewhat of a miracle. I had set a goal of working for this Fortune 500 (top 25) years before in undergraduate school. The professor classified them as "the best" company that did what I wanted to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About, Career

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