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Month: May 2021

Coffee Chats: How We Maintain a 50% Savings Rate

Coffee Chats: How We Maintain a 50% Savings Rate

Once a month or so my wife and I have a money meeting. We jokingly call this meeting our monthly “Coffee Chat”. These clandestine meetings take place in the morning and under the noses of our sleeping daughters. On any given Saturday morning, we’ll make our way downstairs, cat burglar-like, to the kitchen to plot our escape from the workforce. Ironically, we treat this meeting just like one we’d have at the corporate workplace we’re trying to get away from;…

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April 2021 Household Expenses

April 2021 Household Expenses

We are hovering around our average monthly spending of 6K a month. Which I think is pretty good for a family of 4 in the hella expensive Bay Area. traffic Despite what the media has been saying about the San Francisco slash Silicon Valley exodus, the freeways are now packed again to pre-covid levels. The empty freeways of my dreams were nice while it lasted, but I’m back to morning and afternoon bumper to bumper traffic. The saving grace is…

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The Perfect Career Length

The Perfect Career Length

A few weekends ago I spent some time with my good friend and his family. We drove up to a nearby lake in the Sierra for the day and grilled up food, made a fire for our kids to cook up s’mores, and enjoyed the brilliant scenery that is a mountain lake nestled amongst towering pines. I hadn’t really hung out with him since last October, as we’d been adhering best we can to social distancing guidelines. As we relaxed…

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