Thanksgiving is over and Christmas is less than a month away. Here I am three months into my early retirement. This is hard to explain, but it seems like I was working just last week.
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Author: JustinRoG
Retired at 33. I'm here to share some financial wisdom with everyone.
November 2013 Blog Update
Root of Good Blog Update I posted less in November than in previous months, but site traffic has continued to grow at a moderate pace. I have received a lot of positive comments and feedback
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Early Retirement Interview with AOL Daily Finance
A few weeks ago I received an email from Erin, a journalist who writes for AOL’s Daily Finance. Erin, who also blogs at Broke Millennial, was working on a story about the plight of Millennials who
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Carnival of Money Turkey Day Edition
This week I am hosting the Turkey Day Edition of the Carnival of Money. The posts selected for inclusion in this week’s carnival are varied, however they all have “money” as the central theme. Making
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Investment Management Using Asset Allocation Targets
I use my asset allocation as a tool to manage my current and future investments. I always aim to have a fixed percentage of my investments in each asset class. In my previous post, I
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Snapshot of Root of Good’s Diversification and Asset Allocation
I have been a little lazy on the investment front during my three months in early retirement. I haven’t bought or sold anything in my portfolio. Not that it really matters, since you shouldn’t do
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I Can Do It When I Try
“I Can Do It When I Try”. That sounds like a self help book’s trite advice on success. It is actually one of the choices I offered to my daughter a couple years ago when
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Join the Military to Retire Early?
Today’s guest post is brought to you by Doug Nordman, author of “The Military Guide to Financial Independence and Retirement”. If you’re reading this blog then you’re thinking about financial independence and early retirement. You’re aware that two
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October 2013 Update
Halloween is over (booo!) and Thanksgiving is around the corner. Looks like we will be hosting a big Thanksgiving dinner for Mrs. RootofGood’s side of the family again this year. Right now, I’m preemptively
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Developing A Retirement Budget
The path to retiring early is straightforward. Accumulate enough assets to fund all your expenses for the rest of your life. Figuring out what is “enough” and then saving that amount can be challenging. Today
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