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 😉 .
Continue reading “Early Retirement Week 8: The Challenge”
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”
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”
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”
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!
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”
I love answering y’alls burning questions so I put out the call on Twitter and Instagram to see what inquiries you had for me to answer while celebrating my first month of retirement! Continue reading “Early Retirement Month 1: Ask Me Anything”
Welcome, welcome to The Purple Show! Before I forget, this is a reminder that next Tuesday I’m answering your questions to celebrate my first month of retirement! So let me know if you have any specific questions you want me to answer in the comments below. Now, here’s what I’ve been up to this week: Continue reading “Early Retirement Week 4: The Heartbeat”