Getting furloughed during the 2020 pandemic turned out to be a blessing in disguise because it helped me realize my wife and I needed to...

It’s been roughly four months since I retired and almost six months since my wife did. We often talk about how this was a great choice, but early retirement wasn’t always the plan. As mentioned in my first post , I had doubts we’d be able to retire at all, let alone early. Back in 2006, we weren’t thinking of retirement. We were thinking of starting a family. One day, I was killing time at a Borders Bookstore—remember those?—when I came across a book about how to make money