Financial Slacker – Personal Finance for the Rest of Us

Hello Financial Slacker readers. You may be wondering where I’ve been the last few weeks. I’m still here. I’ve just been busy creating a better life for myself.
And in between other projects, out-of-town swim meets, and a week in Northern California with the family, it’s been a hectic time....

I know politics is a touchy subject mostly avoided by many personal finance writers. And with President Trump in office, there is even more to make many uncomfortable. But just because something is uncomfortable to discuss doesn’t mean it should be ignored...

I’ve spent the last few weeks looking for a parcel of land to buy. And what started as a search for a multi-acre mountain property that we could use for camping, fishing, hiking, and other recreation has now evolved into finding a mountain cabin vacation...

After keeping up a daily posting schedule since before Christmas, I decided to take a few days off last week. It’s not that I had so much going on that I didn’t have time to write. Just the opposite. It was actually a rather slow week.
But I needed a break. Even without much going on, I was finding it difficult to sit down and write every day. I had lost my focus and instead of exploring financial independence issues, I was grasping for content and felt the site starting to move away...