Another year done and what a year it’s been. I feel like I’m saying that every week, but December for me is about reflection and unfortunately there’s a lot to reflect on 🙂 . Continue reading “How I Saved $62,000 In 2020”
Author: A Purple Life
What It’s Like Traveling In An Amtrak Viewliner Roomette During A Pandemic
For obvious reasons, 2020 is not shaping up to be the year I suspect any of us predicted. Instead of flying around the world in first class, I’m galavanting around the US and trying forms of transportation I never would have dreamed of, such as going down the east coast in an Amtrak Viewliner Roomette. Continue reading “What It’s Like Traveling In An Amtrak Viewliner Roomette During A Pandemic”
Early Retirement Week 8: The Challenge
This week was tough for reasons I totally created myself 🙂 . That’s the fun thing about retirement – if a week is hard and you chose to do all the things that leave you tired, you have no one to blame but yourself…and luckily I’m fine with that 😉 .
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A Review Of Lively: My HSA Provider
When I first heard of tax-advantaged investment accounts, they sounded too good to be true. My thoughts included, “What do you mean I can put money into a Traditional IRA without paying taxes on it first?” and, “What do you mean I can take money out of a Roth IRA without paying taxes on the backend?” This class of investments sounded like some kind of dark magic. Continue reading “A Review Of Lively: My HSA Provider”
Mama Purple Answers Your Questions: Ask Her Anything
After Rich and Regular published a joint interview with me and Mama Purple y’all started asking more about my superhero of a Mom. To date, she is the only person to write a guest post for this site and did so describing her journey to retire at 55. Continue reading “Mama Purple Answers Your Questions: Ask Her Anything”
Early Retirement Week 7: The Train
Welcome to PurpleMas! I’ve got a special treat for y’all. After the success of my NaNoWriMo writing challenge: I’m going to publish 2 posts a week during the month of December! So get ready for a lot more Purple in your life every Tuesday and Thursday 🙂 . Continue reading “Early Retirement Week 7: The Train”
Early Retirement Week 6: The Trophy
Welcome to Week 6 of my early retirement journey! If you want to catch up with previous weeks, they’re here. It’s starting to settle in that this might be my actual life instead of a strange extra-long vacation 🙂 . Let’s get into it!
Early Retirement Week 5: The Election
Last week we tackled reader questions about my first month of early retirement and this week, we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming of seeing what I am up to each week of retirement. Did I insert that AMA post so I’d have more time to craft these posts after the week is done? Maybe 😉 . Continue reading “Early Retirement Week 5: The Election”