Mental state of an early retiree after two years: Journey of FIRE (financial independence retire early)
Snowshoe Mountain Resort, WV August 2022 marked my wife and myself’s two year anniversary of our early retirement. It is still hard to believe it’s already been two years since our retirement. In those two years, we’ve lived in various destinations on the eastern parts of the United States for a month or longer using mostly AirBNB. All the traveling we were able to do is made possible by our decision to retire early, and we are ever grateful for that decision. In addition to all the traveling, we also got to spend around 4 months out of a year to spend time with our family. Recently, I had written a post updating everyone on our two year anniversary of our early retirement, which covered things like places we’ve visited and our budget. In this post, I’d like to share my thoughts on the mental side of early retirement after actually living through early retirement. Once we decided to retire early around June of 2020, we were busy trying to sell our home, and trying to get rid