FINANCIAL FREEDOMHint: Your daily “treat” might be costing you thousands.
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At some point, many of us will have this moment: standing in a crowded subway car, or staring blankly at another calendar invite, quietly thinking:
“I cannot do this for another 30 years.”
The traditional retirement timeline — work hard for 40+ years, then finally relax when your knees start to creak — isn’t just outdated. It’s broken. Especially when so many of us spend a large part of our lives working jobs we don’t love, to buy things we don’t need, just to impress people we don’t even like.
Here’s the good news: You can retire years earlier than planned. That much we know, and there are countless people who already pulled the trigger on their early retirements.
Here’s the better news: You might already be spending the money that could make it happen.
Well, not directly good news. But if it’s something that you are spending, it means that no longer spending it will fast-track your early retirement efforts. That is the real good news.
By identifying a few key spending habits and replacing them with smarter alternatives, it’s possible to save hundreds of…