Hi FIRECracker and Wanderer (and Little Matchstick), I could also title this, “I think I’m mathing my shit wrong.” I’ve never been a Mathlete and always like to use the excuse that I was an art student and the reason we’re “starving artists” is because they don’t teach us how to do math. I know that’s just an excuse but I really flounder around in anything having to do with arithmetic. To be honest, I spent the first part of my working life oblivious to the FIRE possibility. I thought I was doing something I loved so I didn’t mind […] The post Reader Case: Artist Floundering Around FIRE appea ..read more

Every time I think this decade can’t get any crazier, I keep getting proved wrong. 2024 was never going to be a walk in the park, but holy shit! By now you’ve all heard that former President Trump narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by some nutjob at a rally in Pennsylvania. The investigation is ongoing, with updates seemingly every few hours revealing new details about the shooter, but regardless of how that goes, we’ve all just witnessed a pivotal moment in American political history. I’m not a political commentator, nor is this a political blog. There are plenty of talking […] The po ..read more

What time is it? It’s Case Study time! Kristy & Bryce, First and foremost, I LOVED your book and continue to get so much from listening to it, as well as your blog posts and Podcast interviews.(point form $$ stats below). I am turning 31 in April and took a 6 month leave from my job as a high school teacher in 2022 to live a little. It was the best decision I could have made. Many said it was “once in a lifetime” and I knew that couldn’t be true. In my travels I met a 39 year old […] The post Case Study: Travel Loving Teacher appeared first on Millennial Revolution ..read more

I never thought raising a kid is like investing in the stock market…until I had a kid. Someone once described parenting to me as “winning the lottery while losing a leg”, and I didn’t quite get it but now I know they were trying to convey the emotional rollercoaster ride of having a kid. Compared to being childfree, the emotional highs are breathtakingly higher, but the lows are also devastatingly lower. Just like investing in the stock market, which is also an emotional rollercoaster. Your heart rate is constantly soaring and crashing. For example: Companies releases higher than expected qua ..read more

When we started this blog, we were 30-something millennials frustrated by Boomers talking down to us as if we were entitled whiny brats who never had to endure “real” hardship in our lives. FIRECracker starting ranting, as she does from time to time, and I decided to write down what she said and turned it into something that I could film, and that rant turned into this blog. Now, 10 years later, millennials are entering middle age. We’ve endured multiple market crashes, a Great Financial Crisis, a pandemic, and so many supposedly world-ending geopolitical events that I’ve lost count. Our ..read more

Today’s reader case really caught my eye because not only are they not six-figure STEM people, they love traveling as much as we do. Plus, they are able to do this FIRE thing on a combined $145k teachers’ salary while paying NO TAX. Let’s read on, shall we? Dear Millennial Revolution, We’ve been avid followers of your blog, and your lifestyle resonates deeply with my wife and me, especially now that we are new parents. As US citizens, we’ve spent the past 13 years teaching abroad. We have a toddler and are expecting our second child in December 2024. Our […] The post Reader Case: Teachers Fas ..read more

On Wednesday, Canada’s central bank officially ended the fastest and most dramatic interest rate-hiking cycle in our country’s history by dropping the benchmark interest rate by 0.25%. This brings our overnight lending rate from 5% to 4.75%, and our central bank governor Tiff Macklem has indicated that more rate drops are on their way. This news has been heralded by our media as welcome relief for everyone that’s been punished by high rates, meaning mortgage holders, but that relief is not going to be as dramatic as many hoped. The reason? Here’s Canada’s historical interest rate chart. Mortg ..read more

Before we get to today’s post, I want to announce the winner of last week’s book contest. After randomizing the entries (I really enjoyed reading all the amazing 180+ comments! Thank you all for entering.), the winner is… *drum roll* Maddy: “I know it sounds lame… well, maybe not really, but it def feels lame… if I had a sudden $1000 I’d spend it on a crown for my tooth which has been broken for a long time. Crowns are so expensive (all dental work is now) and I realize how spoiled I was when working corporate and taking all […] The post UK Entrepreneurs Reject Real Estate, Go Full Nomad! app ..read more

I get requests to blurb/promote books often, but now that I have an energetic 8-month-old who just started crawling (I’m both in awe and horrified), I don’t have much time to read books. When this Singaporean reader contacted me about their book, my initial thought was “no thanks” but its comic book style intrigued me and the first chapter entitled “Accept that Life is Unfair” really spoke to me. Plus, it was short. Little did I know I was going to breeze through this book in just two days, devouring the pages during the only time I had for reading—nap […] The post How to Hack Capitalism appe ..read more

Time for another reader case! This one really jumped out at me for reasons that will become obvious in a minute. Hi Kristy and Bryce, I want to first say y’all are awesome!  I’m writing after finishing the book and I pretty much related to every chapter regarding your upbringing Kristy. Your can of Coke for me was Chikifila. My parents would give me gas money every month and if I was lucky I would have some money left over to buy Chick Fil A during exam weeks. I stopped eating-out recently because 1 it’s expensive and 2 because I’m no longer getting the same ..read more