Personal Finance Archive

The FIRE movement sounds amazing in theory. Save aggressively, invest smartly, quit your job at 40, and live off your portfolio forever. But every FIRE guide I read was written by someone earning $200,000 in San Francisco. Try applying that …

My first salary was Rs 22,000 in-hand. I was 22, living in a PG in Bangalore, and felt rich for exactly 11 days. By the 12th, I had blown through most of it on a phone upgrade, eating out every …