Financial Independence: How I Retired from the Rat Race By Using Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transform Your Relationship with Money — This is a review of Your Money or Your Life (YMOYL), by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez, second edition. I read the first edition, our financial bible, back in 1999, and followed the steps with my husband in 2004 and 2005. I quit the rat race at age 38, using…

Who Am I? Laura Capuano Jevtich — I am a 53-year-old woman, a citizen of the United States. I am originally from New Jersey, Exit 135 and 100B on the Garden State Parkway, better known as Westfield and Avon-by-the-Sea, respectively, and combined. I spent my childhood summers at the beach, learning to body and boogie board surf…

Which is kind of the point of his life, unfortunately. — This fictional memoir follows a man who throughout life, does things that he believes make him money without repercussions. He received his doctorate degree, complaining that the teacher who was his main professor, duped him into doing research and putting his name in the first line. Yeah. …

Slow and steady to Financial Independence from a Job, this is how I quit the rat race. — I welcomed the talk of inflation. Everyone seemed so scared about it, yet I was excited to hear the Federal Reserve increased the benchmark rate by a half of a point. The benchmark rate though, it not really where I want it to increase. Do you know what is the…

Effluo Planner, White Board Dry Erase, Sticky Notes, Different Sized Sticky Notes, Binder Pockets — I write Amazon reviews occasionally, and got some interesting, inexpensive items over the last week or so. Several of these items were for a goal planner I am using and reviewing during the month of May. Others were to supplement my paper planners I have now. These are affiliate links…