Hello and welcome to this month’s edition of Where In The World Is Purple 😉 ! This month I’m writing this while looking at local New Zealand birds frolicking in the leaves of thousand year old trees. The world is wild y’all 🙂 . So let’s get into what I got up to this month!
Continue reading “The Month Of Auckland: February 2025 Recap”
This is my first time writing a post like this. In retirement I’ve posted about my spending, my income and that’s basically it. But I wanted a place to talk about my money moves in general and sum everything up for the year, so that’s what this new annual post will be! Let’s look at my overall financial picture and see what the future holds.
Continue reading “2024 Financial Review: Investment Withdrawals, Dividends And Roth Conversions”
So let’s talk about something fun: the surprising amount of money I made in retirement this year. It’s surprising because I expected this amount to be $0 after I quit my job in October 2020, but like a lot of things in life, I was wrong 🙂 . So let’s get into it! Continue reading “How I Made $5,344 While Retired In 2024”
It finally happened. Now that I’m pulling money from my investments, my ‘income’ according to the tax man surpassed the level where I need to choose a healthcare plan from the marketplace instead of defaulting to Washington State Medicaid that I basically never used. Continue reading “I Joined The Health Insurance Marketplace”
Welcome to another monthly recap of what I’ve been up to during my 4th year of early retirement 🙂 . I’m currently writing this while sitting in the sun in our Costa Rica Airbnb staring at the lush green mountains that surround San José. But for the sake of accuracy, let’s turn back the clock to see what I was up to during most of January, which overall involved freezing my ass off in the northeast US 🙂 . Let’s get into it!
So let’s talk about something fun: the surprising amount of money I made in retirement this year. It’s surprising because outside of dividends, I expected this amount to be $0 after I quit my job in October 2020, but like a lot of things in life, I was wrong 🙂 . Let’s get into it! Continue reading “How I Made $4,359 While Retired In 2023”
At this point, I’ve almost completed 3 years of retirement and I finally sold my first share! I wasn’t out of my cash cushion yet so selling wasn’t an urgent need, but I felt the anniversary of saying “I QUIT!” was a good time as any and I will keep that schedule going forward so don’t try to time the market since that never works. Continue reading “How I Sell Investments To Fund My Retirement: A Step-By-Step Guide”
It’s finally happening people! It’s my 3rd year of retirement and I’m starting to plan for withdrawing from my portfolio…probably in my 4th year of retirement. Like you’re surprised I enjoy planning ahead 😉 .