And here are the goodies for this week…

Want to retire early? Make lots of money and don’t have kids (Think Save Retire) 

“Yup, earning big money and not raising children is a fast track plan for financial independence and early retirement. It gets you there faster and completely streamlines the process. Funny how a big income and few expenses add up into significant net worth numbers!”

A controversial yet somewhat true statement. Having kids incur additional expense, from the point of pregnancy to raising them, that’s a lot of money. But that’s not saying that you can’t have kids on your journey to FI. In fact, that could be an impetus why we are choosing FI.

Fuck It FI aka When You Change Direction On The Path to Financial Independence (Miss Mazuma)

“There is NO guarantee that your path to FI will be straight – in fact, I can