Below are all published posts on this site, organized by (primary) category. You can also see all posts in a category (including secondary categories) by visiting each category page (link in headers, and see Categories section to the right).
Financial Decisions
- Why Are We Still Working?
- Should You Refinance Your Mortgage? Consider Investment Returns!
- Choosing Your Health Insurance Plan – With Math!
- What Savings Rate Should I Aim For?
- Part-Time Work After Financial Independence
- Part-Time Work after Financial Independence – Diagrams
- Roth vs Traditional IRA Contributions in Grad School
- Choosing Your Obamacare Plan – With Math!
- Choosing Your Dental Insurance Plan – With Math!
Reducing Expenses
- Slashing Your Entertainment Expenses
- Why You Should Mow Your Own Lawn
- Our 2022 Expenses
- Our First Quarter 2023 Expenses
- Is It Worth Letting Your Warehouse Club Membership Expire?
- Our Second Quarter 2023 Expenses
- Our 2023 Expenses
- How to Catch Mistaken and Fraudulent Expenses
- How We Track Our Expenses
- Computing Long-Term Inflation-Adjusted Expense Averages
Reducing Taxes
- How to Pay No Taxes on Social Security Income
- How to Compute ACA (Obamacare) Subsidies
- A Hidden Income Tax
Social Security
- How Much of My Social Security Income Will Be Taxed?
- Computing Social Security Income
- Comparing Social Security Calculators
- Computing Future Social Security Income
- Computing Future Social Security Income – Diagrams
- When Should You Start Social Security?
- Impact of FIRE on Social Security Income
Time To FI
- What Savings Rate Should I Aim For?
- Time to FI, Starting Above $0
- Time to FI, Starting Below $0
- Time to FI: What About Inflation?
- Fat Flamingo FI
Withdrawing Money After FIRE
- Withdrawing Money After FIRE
- FIRE Withdrawal Strategy Algorithms
- Traditional Withdrawal Strategy
- Tax And Penalty Minimization (TPM) Withdrawal Strategy
- The IRS Won’t Wait Forever: Required Minimum Distributions
- Reduce RMDs by Millions And Save BIG in Taxes After FIRE
- Is It Worth Using Lower Tax Brackets To Reduce RMDs Later?
- Stress Testing Analysis Update
- Stress Testing Analysis Update 2
- Stress Testing Analysis Initial Results
- FIRE Withdrawal Method Stress Testing
- 20% Withholding Problem Solved (Mostly) and More Withdrawals Stress Testing
- Update: Reducing Standard Income & Increasing Long Term Cap Gains to Generate More Cash Without Taxes
- Reducing Standard Income & Increasing Long Term Cap Gains to Generate More Cash – Not Worth It
- Roth Early Withdrawal Updates and New Withdrawal Strategy Pages
- New Retirement Withdrawal Strategy Diagrams
- New RMD Starting Ages and Tax Brackets, Faster TPM Tool, eBook Released, Site Updates
- Optimal FIRE Withdrawals Tool
- What income should you target after FIRE with Obamacare?
DIY
- Only secondary category for now…