Do you find yourself fretting every Sunday evening, hating the idea of having to go into work the next day? I find when Sunday night rolls around each weekend and the reality of working on Monday sets in, it is both frustrating and motivating to refocus on accomplishing my early retirement dream. This is the […]
Financial Independence
Slow Travel: Giving Me Time to Reflect
I had a great trip last Friday on Amtrak traveling to Colorado. The purpose of the visit was for a mixture of work, pleasure, and simply experiencing a change of pace. The pace of the JOMY (Just One More Year) household has been nothing but frantic over the last few months. The train trip has […]
We’re Debt Free: The Dave Ramsey Interview
This is probably the article I have dreamt of writing the most since the beginning of the blog “Just One More Year”. In fact, I have been formulating this in my mind for years. This goes back prior to when I first thought of creating a PF blog and becoming an avid reader of ERE […]
Happy New Year’s Day and a Successful New Year
We wish our readers a Happy New Year and a prosperous new year. We hope you have had some time to reflect on the year that has ended and you are excited with the promise to what the new year can bring. We hope on New Year’s Day you are not waking up from having […]
Early Retirement: Lessons to Learn from People who Achieved It
Folks, today we have a post from Amy Nickson at Working Moms Word discussing some early retirement lessons. She is taking the blogging microphone today as I am attempting to sell our existing home and remodel our new place in a very short timeframe. Please do check out her site and provide feedback to her new posts. […]
Drumroll please: Our Decision to Downsize our Home
We have shared with you in several of our articles over the last couple of months that we are considering to downsize our home. This would be a move to a local Sedona townhouse only a half mile away and about one third smaller than the space we are in today. Part of the decision […]
PhoenCon15: Creating our own local blogger hookup
Tradition, it has to start somewhere. Thanksgiving, Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, none of these holidays existed before either Hallmark or the government created them. All right, why not begin our own tradition by creating an Arizona based blogger hookup? I shall name it PhoenCon15, changing the name by incrementing the year annually. It is time […]
Decision Crossroad: To Downsize, Stay, or Upsize Our Home
We recently shared in several articles that we are considering downsizing our home—and the resulting financial and lifestyle perks that we could enjoy. Today, we are at a decision crossroad as we decide which path to follow. Through a somewhat complicated deal, the parents of an acquaintance of ours signed a contract with us to […]
Rental Property 101: 10 Steps to Setting Up Your Business
I have mentioned, in earlier articles, that rental real estate has provided an excellent way for us to build net worth and to create a passive income. I thought it would be helpful for readers who are early in their personal finance journey to learn about what it takes to set up this type of […]
Talking About Priorities with My Pal, Buck
We had a special visitor at our house today. Our readers may remember when we introduced Buck earlier this year. He and I had a lengthy conversation about priorities and concerns about shelter, food, and friendships. It has been months since we have seen him and I had wondered where he had been since our […]