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Passive Income
On one of my first dates with my now husband, he mentioned that he wanted to be in a position where his money worked for him, not him working for money. I’ve thought about this a lot and many times wished I had pursued the conversation more fully because though I had a concept of what he meant I didn’t know the intricacies of how to implement. Living overseas made things somewhat more complicated because the tax systems are different, and moving money between international locations was far from as easy as it is now. Fast forward many years and I’ve been digging in to the term and what it…
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“One more year” year after year
If you’re anywhere near retirement age, or are contemplating retiring early, you might have heard the term “one more year”. Essentially, it refers to people who can retire but for some emotional reason, they feel like they need to work one more year, pad the savings, set themselves up emotionally for not having a set schedule, whatever the case may be. It differs for everyone I am sure, but I am solidly in the “one more year” camp, unfortunately for me. We have saved a fair amount of money, enough for us to retire comfortably and even more so that my husband is going to work for a while longer,…