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Retirement IS possible if you start today! Learn the best tricks and hacks to save enough money for your retirement. We aim to retire early without having to give up our "retirement dreams" fun bucket list. Check out our money journey thus far, how we stash away for extremely early retirement and how we've been planning for the future.

When Income Doesn’t Require Working Anymore

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

A good daydream for normal people involves winning the lottery or scoring a lifetime pass to the Maldives. Good, normal thoughts. Mine used to be daydreaming that I was the only person left in ...

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17 Part-Time Jobs with Good Health Insurance and Benefits

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

~Over a nice quiet dinner out with my husband we discussed the trending post-retirement topics inside our home this week. Financial independence city contenders for our desired lifestyle was one ...

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What Fatty Fatty Fat FatFIRE Looks Like To Me

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

What is fatFIRE? What is fatFIRE vs leanFIRE? How about some morbidly obese FIRE?!This is a fun post where I let my mind run wild under all the different possibilities of extreme wealth. I got the ...

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How Rich People Think: Why Penny Pinch When You Don’t Have To?

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

Ever wonder where the penny-pinching millionaire trope came from? Or how rich people think about frugality when they don't have to be frugal?In her usual guileless way, Soap (a good friend of mine) ...

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Our November Budget & Spending Update – We Just Entered The Millionaires Club!

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

Being millionaires by thirty sound like a pipe dream so it's crazy that it came true for normal, lucky ducks like us. We both worked very hard to get here but I would definitely say being lucky helped ...

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Is your 401K good enough? Yes! Here is how.

Is Your 401k Plan & Match Good Enough?

By Lily | The Frugal Gene

An employer-sponsored 401k plan match is one of the better-known benefits of having a salaried position. Besides contributing the full limit annually, the simple answer is yes (with lots of caveats), ...

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