A Juicy Enough Life: Slow FIRE

You can win $500 just by submitting your personal financial success to JD Roth at Get Rich Slowly.  His last post about the contest motivated me to enter -- he's only got six entires so far and the contest goes until April 15th.  He's giving away 3 different cash prizes along with runner-up prizes that include copies of his new book, Your Money:  The Missing Manual.  (Even a non-math major like myself can figure that she has a pretty good chance of winning something , just by entering). With only two minutes to express my personal success story, it really made me clarify the most important lessons I learned on my journey out of debt into financial freedom.   Here's a stab at a short list of what I recommend to anybody and everybody who is interested. Jerrold Mundis' "How to Get Out of Debt and Stay Out of Debt."   This little paperback taught me that Debt is just a number, and that the more fearful you are, the harder it is to dig out.  He takes the shame