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    Intoxicated by the Romance of the Unusual

    By Retire Before Dad

    Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual. – Ernest Hemingway This Hemingway quote came up in one of my social media feeds (read to the end to learn the quote’s origin). Most of the time, I roll my eyes at quotes and memes shared…

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    Filed Under: Career, Entrepreneurship, Unusual

    Retire Before Dead

    By Retire Before Dad

    Someone on Facebook with a very dry sense of humor commented:  You misspelled dead. — Facebook Reader It took me a while — then, the epiphany. After seven years of blogging, I realized my blog name is one letter away from Retire Before Dead. And wow, far more people are probably striving for that goal…

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    Filed Under: Career, Personal Finance, Unusual

    8 Alternative Investment Ideas for Asset Diversification

    By Retire Before Dad

    Diversification is said to be the only free lunch in the investment world. If your stock portfolio is heavily weighted toward one company, you can reduce your risk by purchasing shares of other companies.  The same is true for asset classes. As your stock accounts grow with regular contributions and gains, your net worth becomes…

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    Filed Under: Investing, Personal Finance, Real Estate, Unusual

    That Clutter in Your Home Used to be Money

    By Retire Before Dad

    Useless clutter around the house irritates me every day. Not because it’s in the way, but because when I see unused stuff around the house, I see things that used to be money. And I wish I had the money, not the item. Most items aren’t worth money anymore. Even if they are, they probably…

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    Filed Under: Personal Finance, Unusual Tagged With: minimalism

    How Personal Finance Blogs Make Money

    By Retire Before Dad

    Are you curious about how blogs make money? Personal finance and investing is an excellent blog niche because the demand for financial advice is neverending.   It’s satisfying work, as bloggers can positively influence readers by helping them make smarter financial decisions. Writing insightful content can lead to earning money through multiple blog income streams aligned…

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    Filed Under: Entrepreneurship, Personal Finance, Unusual

    What if the Economic Stimulus Doesn’t Work?

    By Retire Before Dad

    The U.S. government is taking extraordinary measures to inject trillions of dollars of economic stimulus into the economy through a variety of lifesaving financial flotation devices.  The numbers are staggering, and it’s hard for average onlookers like you and me to comprehend the scale or effectiveness of what’s happening. It’s all so nonchalant, $2 trillion,…

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    Filed Under: Personal Finance, Unusual

    Gratitude, Optimism, and Investment Opportunities

    By Retire Before Dad

    The negative news is overwhelming if you spend the day consuming it on your phone or TV.  My wife worried a lot about the virus and all that’s happening until she deleted Twitter.  I’m very comfortable with our new lifestyle. On the first day I worked from home, I came up with a list of…

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    Filed Under: Family, Investing, Personal Finance, Unusual

    Traveling to 45 Countries Taught Me These 8 Things About Money

    By Retire Before Dad

    A week after graduating from college, I flew to London and spent the summer riding trains and sleeping in hostels around Europe. Two things became clear that summer. I had no interest in more formal education, and I wanted to travel a lot more. The fastest way to travel again was to find a decent-paying…

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    Filed Under: Personal Finance, Travel, Unusual

    Estate Plan or Vasectomy — What’s Worse?

    By Retire Before Dad

    One of my biggest failures as a parent and personal finance aficionado was waiting seven years after our first child was born to finish our estate plan.  It seems that doing an estate plan is more prone to procrastination than most other grown-up checklist items, even vasectomies. (Be sure to answer the two survey questions…

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    Filed Under: Family, Personal Finance, Unusual

    The Definition of Financial Success is Not So Obvious

    By Retire Before Dad

    The Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge attraction recently opened at both Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, and Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL. Despite the long-awaited openings, Disney stock analysts were disappointed to see overall theme park attendance down 3% in the fiscal third quarter.  Visitors to the planet Batuu meet face-to-face with the Millennium Falcon and…

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    Filed Under: Career, Personal Finance, Unusual

    Masterworks Review 2021: Andy Warhol in Your Investment Portfolio?

    By Retire Before Dad

    This Masterworks review was updated on 01/01/2021. Part of what I love about being a money blogger is learning about innovative startups and investment platforms. Last year, I came across one that was particularly interesting and mentioned it in a post about alternative investment ideas.  Today I’m digging deeper into Masterworks, an investment platform that…

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    Filed Under: Investing, Personal Finance, Reviews, Unusual

    For the Happiness of All Humankind

    By Retire Before Dad

    I’ve been thinking a lot about happiness recently. Not so much about what makes me happy, but about the mechanics of creating sustained happiness in life.  Over and over again, I read about successful people I admire who have all the money they need but still don’t feel fulfilled with their lives. The actor Jim…

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    Filed Under: Career, Personal Finance, Travel, Unusual

    32 Questions, Five Years in the Making

    By Retire Before Dad

    More than five years ago, I started reading an anonymous money blog called 1500 Days. The writer had a similar idea to mine, to escape the rat race early and stop working on his terms instead of what’s traditionally considered normal retirement age.  Since the beginning, the 1500 Days blog has hosted an almost weekly…

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    Investing vs. Gambling – What’s the Difference?

    By Retire Before Dad

    What’s the difference between investing vs. gambling? Well the simple answer is math, but there’s more to it than that.  In my mid-teens, I went to Atlantic City with my family for an evening on the boardwalk. I was deeply interested in money for someone my age, so gambling intrigued me.  You must be over…

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