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Mustachian Community => Meetups and Social Events => Topic started by: Sir Sideburns 'Stash-a-lot on August 24, 2016, 10:31:25 AM
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Anyone in the Fort Collins / Loveland area interested in meeting up? We recently moved here and although we have a lot of family in the area, we'd also obviously love to meet some interesting people to whom we are (probably) not related. I'm still working during the weekdays and we have a 2 year old and an infant with early bedtimes so weekend afternoons (3pm - 6:15pm). work best for us. After an initial meetup, we could also easily host evening get togethers at our place. We're in Fort Collins but Loveland could work too. Both cities have several beautiful parks that are perfect for gatherings like this. Let us know!
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Yes!
My SO and I live in the area (33 & 30, no kids). We would love to come to, help organize, or possibly eventually host a meetup. I've thought about starting a meetup group on meetup.com for mustachians/money nerds, but it can be a bit intimidating to start something like that :)
I know there are quite a few other Northern Colorado residents on the forums, so hopefully a few more chime in here.
I work 8-5 Mon-Fri, my SO works ~9-6 Tues-Sat, so for us Sundays or Monday evenings are probably the best. I'd love to get something planned before the warm weather evades us.
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I'm in Fort Collins and would love to meet up sometime.
Stats:
Still working M-F 8-5
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Female
Single, no kids
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I'm in Fort Collins and would love to meet up sometime.
Stats:
Still working M-F 8-5
38
Female
Single, no kids
Awesome!
Any other Northern Colorado folks interested?
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Hello,
My son is getting out of the Army, so I will be flying out to Kansas (Ft. Riley), and we will be spending two weeks to get back to California. Looking forward to hitting some of the National Parks, and all that.
So we will be in the Fort Collins area on the evening of September 20. If anyone wants to meet up (and/or knows of a good campground), then please let me know.
Thanks,
wynr
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Also in Fort Collins and wouldn't mind meeting a few new people (or probably new people, anyway). I work weekdays and have some standing volunteer work and activities with friends on weekday evenings so weekends tend to work better for me. General information: 32, female, no kids, been here about 8 years now.
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I'm in Evans/Greeley and would be totally down to get together. Let me know if you guys have anything planned!
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I am in Fort Collins and would love to have a meetup.
Weekends are best for me. But I am pretty flexible during the week.
I would prefer Ft Collins, Loveland is outside my biking range but I could be convinced to dust off the car if necessary. Carpooling is always an option.
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Is anyone planning on scheduling something?
I can put something together, but I don't want to step on anyone's toes.
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I haven't heard anything definitive in terms of a meet-up.
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The OP has not been active since August.
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FoCo MMM Meetup Oct. 29th, 2016 @ 2 pm
Dazbog Coffee (downstairs) (main floor, back room)
401 Mason Ct #105
Fort Collins, CO 80524
970-419-8800
http://www.dazbog.com/Store/List/22
My name is Sara, and I'll have a book with me (in case no one shows).
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I'll plan on meeting at Dazbog the 29th, it's on my calendar! My name is Kalen.
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I'm the worst! I checked back a couple of times, but all apparently before the first reply. I assumed if someone ever saw it and posted, I'd get a notification.
I received JadedIdealists' invite this morning and am still eager to meet some fellow Mustachians! We actually have already committed to a Halloween party that starts at 2pm on that Saturday, but I'll show up at Dazbog at 1pm on the odd chance anyone can make it early. I can probably stay until around 2:30-3:00 then head to the Halloween party from there.
- SSS (ok, just Michael will do) ;)
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Awesome! I will be there.
...but I'll show up at Dazbog at 1pm on the odd chance anyone can make it early.
In that case, I can plan to get there around 1:30.
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Awesome! See you then.
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...but I'll show up at Dazbog at 1pm on the odd chance anyone can make it early.
In that case, I can plan to get there around 1:30.
Awesome! My boyfriend and I will plan to be there around 1. I'm looking forward to meeting you guys! -Kalen
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FoCo MMM Meetup Oct. 29th, 2016 @ 2 pm
Dazbog Coffee (main floor, back room)
401 Mason Ct #105
Fort Collins, CO 80524
970-419-8800
http://www.dazbog.com/Store/List/22
My name is Sara, and I'll have a book with me (in case no one shows).
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I will be wearing my "Camp Mustache 2016" t-shirt!
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Haha! Ok, I'll be wearing a tight shirt. And cologne. :)
Ok, not really. I actually haven't planned that far ahead just yet and sadly don't have a 'Camp Mustache 2016' shirt. Come to think of it, I don't have cologne either...
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I will be the older guy with white hair and a big grin.
I will buy a drink because it is not fair to use a business' space without paying for it. It has been over a year since I was last in a coffee shop.
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I will buy a drink because it is not fair to use a business' space without paying for it. It has been over a year since I was last in a coffee shop.
Definitely... I'll buy a latte :) Although, I am always better in social situations if I have some alcohol, rather than caffeine!
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Older guy wearing a SUPERCELL t-shirt. Will get there around 1:45. Hope to see some others. -ap
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Thanks so much to everyone that showed up today! I wasn't expecting so many people to attend and had a great time talking with all of you. I'm looking forward to the next event when my wife can attend as well. I'll setup a Meetup group in the next couple of days so we can make this a more regular thing and hopefully draw some more interesting and likeminded people. For those of you that also expressed or have interest in organizing our local meetups, I'd love input and to brainstorm topics and structure (or the lack thereof, if preferred) together. I was tentatively thinking of a potluck in a month or so but am very open to ideas.
- SSS
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Thanks SSS! I am definitely interested in helping organize the meetup group, potluck sounds great. I really like the loose structure, but it might be cool to also meet about specific topics.
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Great to meet you guys. I look forward to seeing you all again. Best wishes, aperture.
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I am very confused. I was in the reserved back room (to the right of the pickup counter) from 1:00 PM. I had a good conversation with Sara from 2-4 but no one else showed up.
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Are you serious!?
I also showed up at 1:00pm and and geo_kale and her boyfriend Kyle had arrived before me. We sat sat in the back of the cafe (left of the pickup counter). I can't believe we messed that up with so few people in the cafe other than us. We should have maybe put up a sign or something. I'm really sorry we missed each other but it won't happen next time.
-SSS
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Are you serious!?
I also showed up at 1:00pm and and geo_kale and her boyfriend Kyle had arrived before me. We sat sat in the back of the cafe (left of the pickup counter). I can't believe we messed that up with so few people in the cafe other than us. We should have maybe put up a sign or something. I'm really sorry we missed each other but it won't happen next time.
-SSS
I asked at the counter. They pointed me to the right. There was a sign.
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(facepalm)
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@ Threshkin - Nice to meet you and talk FIRE shop. Thanks for the book recommendations.
It's disappointing that the group was split.
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It's pretty hard to believe since it wasn't a very big place. I had never been there before so I started to walk the place when I arrived, walking to the back of the room to the left at first. When I spotted Geo_Kale and her boyfriend, they seemed to be looking at me like they were expecting to meetup with people they hadn't met so I walked over to them. They asked if I was there for the MMM meetup so I dropped off my stuff, ordered my small coffee and went back to join them. I apologize to both of you for not thinking to walk the rest of the cafe and check for anyone else, especially since Threshkin said he would be also be there at 1:00PM. You have every right to be upset with me. I can imagine how disappointed I'd feel if the same thing had happened to me.
All the more reason to have another one of these soon!
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Not upset at all JadedIdealist and I had a good conversation.
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I'm willing to try again, as long as someone else organizes. :)
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Wow - I got in at 2:00 and did the same as SSS - saw a group around the couch and table to the left and joined without looking elsewhere. It is disappointing that there were others there and we did not meet, but kind of exciting that there are still others that are enthusiasts for the frugal life and want to build community. Looking forward to another meet up. Best wishes - ap.
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For our next Meetup, does anyone have some strong preferences or aversions to any of the following dates?
Saturday, December 3rd – 3:30pm - 6:00pm
Sunday, December 3rd – 3:30pm - 6:00pm
Saturday, December 10th – 3:30pm - 6:00pm
Sunday, December 11th – 3:30pm - 6:00pm
Any venue suggestions? When we get to know each other a little better, I'd be happy to have people over to our house as that's probably the most Mustachian option when it isn't park weather anymore.
In the interim, I was thinking perhaps one of the many breweries here in Fort Collins would work great.
Thoughts?
I'll post a time and place this weekend but wanted to solicit input first.
Cheers,
-SSS
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I'd prefer Sundays, so my girlfriend can come along; The 11th works better than the 3rd for me, as well.
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Saturday, December 3rd – 3:30pm - 6:00pm AVAILABLE
Sunday, December 4th – 3:30pm - 6:00pm AVAILABLE
Saturday, December 10th – 3:30pm - 6:00pm NOT AVAILABLE
Sunday, December 11th – 3:30pm - 6:00pm NOT AVAILABLE
@ SSS - Thanks for putting this together!
My availability is in bold above.
I'm open to any venue in Fort Collins. FYI: I rarely drink, so I won't partake.
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Kudy, would you be able to attend if it were on Sunday, December 4th? If so, that's looking like the best date so far.
- SSS
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Yep, I am available!
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Any of these dates should work for me.
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Well, in my quest to find a more Mustachian venue than a brewery expecting to sell us some beer, I discovered that the Community Room at the Harmony Library seems to be available at nearly the same times I suggested previously. 5pm was the latest reservation time so I shifted it back an hour. I'll let you know when I receive confirmation back from the library staff.
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Thank you for submitting a Room Reservation Request for Fort Collins Area Mustachians.
Library: Harmony Library
Location: Community Room (H)
Date: Sunday, December 04, 2016
Reservation Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Meeting Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Confirmation number: PJTXGMI
Library District staff will review the request and notify you when your request has been approved. Please print and save this page for your records.
To cancel your reservation request go to http://poudreriver.evanced.info/requestcancel.asp and enter your confirmation number.
Call 970-221-6740 with any questions/problems regarding your reservation request.
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This is a good idea for a venue. The library is a great resource, we use it very often.
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Hi! So somehow I stopped getting updates on the thread again -_-
Kyle and I have December 4th on our calendar. Hope to see everyone again then!
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Let's definitely plan for the 4th. We'll host it our place if needed. I haven't received confirmation one way or the other on the library but I'll follow up tomorrow.
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Confirmed!
We're having a meetup for Fort Collins area readers of MrMoneyMustache.com to exchange ideas about frugality, environmental stewardship, bicycling, and all things Mustachian.
Informal topics to include:
1. Improving the lives of every living thing on Earth by consciously choosing to consume less.
2. Enjoying the surplus of cash and financial freedom that naturally results from consciously choosing to consume less.
P.S. The library has ample bicycle parking to accommodate all Mustachians planning to attend. ;)
Library: Harmony Library – 4616 South Shields, Fort Collins, Colorado 80526
Location: Community Room (H)
Date: Sunday, December 04, 2016
Reservation Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Note: Bring a snack or non-alcoholic drink to share (optional) – The library is fine with us bringing food and non-alcoholic drinks as long as we clean up after ourselves and are out by 5:00pm.
P.S. I'm not seeing a way to publish an event on Meetup.com without agreeing to a monthly subscription of $10-$15 (not happening). Anyone smarter than me that knows of a way to post an event on there for free, please enlighten me. If not, please just try to promote it otherwise if any other relevant sites occur to anyone.
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I believe the monthly fee is the reason that the Boulder mustachian group moved from meetup.com to facebook events. There isn't a way to host a meetup without paying the fee, as far as I know.
The one benefit of meetup, in my opinion, is that you're group is visible to other people in the area looking for groups. If we started a group and named it "N. CO Early Retirement and Financial Independence" or something, it may draw folks who aren't yet familiar with MMM, but are interested in the topic.
SSS, do you want to email everyone who was at the last group, to make sure everyone knows? I will spread the word to a few others as well.
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Will do. Thanks!
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Kudy nudged me about this thread. It'll be fun to meet like-minded folks in Fort Collins. See y'all at the library on the 4th.
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Thanks for setting this up!
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No problem. Thanks for the reminder and thanks to JadedIdealist for PMing me so I could find out out the thread had activity and for setting up that first meeting. I'm still a little embarrassed about not knowing I had to subscribe to receive notifications before...
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Fort Collins Area Mustachians Meetup
Where: Library: Harmony Library – 4616 South Shields, Fort Collins, Colorado 80526, Community Room (H)
When: Sunday, December 04, 2016, 2:00PM to 5:00PM
Note: Bring a snack or non-alcoholic drink to share (optional) – The library is fine with us bringing food and non-alcoholic drinks as long as we clean up after ourselves and are out by 5:00PM.
Informal topics to include:
1. Improving the lives of every living thing on Earth by consciously choosing to consume less.
2. Enjoying the surplus of cash and financial freedom that naturally results from consciously choosing to consume less.
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I wanted to remind everyone following this thread of our meeting tomorrow and also make an announcement. In response to bullet point 1 above, Laura, who attended our first meeting back in October, has generously offered to prepare a 10-15 minute presentation for us on the book 'The Ecotechnic Future' by John Michael Greer.
https://smile.amazon.com/Ecotechnic-Future-Envisioning-Post-Peak-World/dp/0865716390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480787464&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Ecotechnic+Future
We'll probably start the presentation at around 4:00PM to allow ample time for Q&A and any needed cleanup before 5:00PM.
My hope for our meetings is that we can include plenty of relaxed free-form conversation time while incorporating just enough structure that we have something specific to look forward to discussing at each meeting.
Some ideas for future topics include helpful books, websites, podcasts, apps, tactics, spreadsheets or other specific tools used to track progress towards FI, local resources and frugality hacks like great places to shop for x, great local discounts available for y, best z for the money, etc...
Let me know if you'd be interested in preparing a similar presentation on a topic you believe would be of interest to our group. See you tomorrow!
- SSS
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Looking forward to the meetup tomorrow!
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I spoke too soon! Unfortunately I am feeling ill this morning, and I don't think we will make it to the meetup today after all :( Hope to see another get together in the near future.
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Bummer! Get well soon, Kudy.
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Good meeting, good discussion, good presentation. Glad we went.
I will be looking up the author.
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Thanks for the good discussion yesterday everyone!! I'm looking forward to getting together again (maybe after the Holidays?)
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Meeting again after the Holidays sounds great. I'll start looking into library meeting room availability and see if I can make a similar reservation some weekend in January.
Thanks to everyone who attended and especially thanks to Laura for preparing the presentation on the book 'The Ecotechnic Future'. The fact that you present information for a living definitely showed!
I keep finding that our meetings go too quickly and I'm not getting the chance to get the specific feedback I'm looking for from from my fellow Mustachians. I'm hoping giving a slightly different format a try for our next meeting will give me and others looking for advice the bandwidth needed to address specific concerns.
For our next meeting, I'd love for us to try breaking up into groups of 3-4 to allow everyone the necessary time to do a deep dive into each of our personal situations (only if desired, of course) or simply exchange ideas and talk at more length about our personal experiences along this Mustachian journey. For me at least, as I am unexpectedly making the transition from SWAMI to FIRE, I feel I would really benefit from an almost reader case story-like evaluation and vetting of my family's current situation and FIRE feasibility. I get that the math is shockingly simple to quote MMM, but I'm finding there's a lot more to this transition than just arithmetic. It doesn't matter how many articles or forum posts I've read along those lines, it doesn't change that there is a lot of emotional weight associated with making this transition. My last day of full-time work was October 31st, 2016 and November has been decidedly more stressful for me than any of my recent months of full-time work, as strange as that sounds. I'm feeling pretty overwhelmed by the limitless possibilities and deciding what comes next for me and my family.
- SSS
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The last meet-up was great. Thank you SSS for setting it up, and thank you Laura for the presentation.
SSS - I like the idea about smaller groups to delve deeper into specific topics. The time did fly last weekend and it takes a while for this introvert to warm up to a large group of new people (despite everyone being very friendly and welcoming!).
I look forward to attending another FoCo meet-up.
-Sara
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So, I put in a request for Community Room 2 at the Old Town library on 22-JAN from 2-5pm. I'll let you know when the meeting space is confirmed. If not, the 29th in the same room we met at last time was available.
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Thank you for submitting a Room Reservation Request for Fort Collins Area Mustachians.
Library: Old Town Library
Location: Community Room 2
Date: Sunday, January 22, 2017
Reservation Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Meeting Time: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Confirmation number: VXFHQMI
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Hi SSS and everyone else,
Looking forward to Jan 22!
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Hi NoCo Mustachians! Wife and I recently moved to Fort Collins and would love to meet like-minded folks. We're mid-30's, no kids, I'm an engineer (surprise!) and she's a music teacher. I've subscribed to this thread and look forward to the next (Jan 22?) meet up!
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Welcome! I love the username, by the way (Surprise!). :)
As a Christmas present to my fellow FoCo Area Mustachians, I sucked it up and paid the Meetup subscription while it was 50% off so we've got a Meetup going now too if you want to join that – Fort Collins FI/RE Fighters. https://www.meetup.com/Fort-Collins-FIRE-Fighters-Meetup/
See you on the 22nd!
-SSS (Michael)
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Welcome! I love the username, by the way (Surprise!). :)
Thanks--I was working as a design engineer in the bike industry when I set up my forum account and am still a big believer in bikes as the ultimate triple threat (health, wealth, environment). But moving to NoCo has been interesting--this is our first real winter in ages (spent the past decade in Oregon and Silicon Valley). The negative temps and heavy snow did manage to push me to drive to work (ugh!) once last week.
As a Christmas present to my fellow FoCo Area Mustachians, I sucked it up and paid the Meetup subscription while it was 50% off so we've got a Meetup going now too if you want to join that – Fort Collins FI/RE Fighters. https://www.meetup.com/Fort-Collins-FIRE-Fighters-Meetup/
See you on the 22nd!
-SSS (Michael)
Thanks for taking the lead on setting up the Meetup group! Looks like it's already helping to pull together people from outside these forums. Looking forward to the first event!
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Bumping this thread to let people in N. CO know we have a meetup scheduled for next Sunday the 5th - here are the details:
https://www.meetup.com/Fort-Collins-FIRE-Fighters-Meetup/events/237205696/
Hope to see some new folks there!
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Calling all Fort Collins Area Mustachians!
The NoCo FI/RE Fighters are meeting on Sunday, May 21st at the Harmony Library in Community Room H from 2pm to 5pm.
https://www.meetup.com/NoCo-FIRE-Fighters/events/237157353/
(https://www.meetup.com/NoCo-FIRE-Fighters/events/237157353/)
- My wife, Ellen, will give a brief overview of our family's 3 months in Ecuador and introduce the FI website we've been working on during our time abroad.
- Ellen will share the results of the Airbnb experiment we've been conducting at our home while we've been away.
- I'll discuss Mint.com and Personal Capital and share some nuances to how Ellen and I implemented these tools.
- I'll give a walkthrough of the spreadsheet I developed to encourage us along our journey to financial independence.
The spreadsheet in question is a fairly low maintenance tool. When used in conjunction with Mint.com and Personal Capital, it can be kept current with about 5 minutes of effort each month or about 10 minutes each quarter if you prefer.
Some features of the spreadsheet include:
- Tracking your monthly income and expenses, including trailing 12 month averages
- Tracking your net worth over time, with or without your primary residence
- It produces a helpful Wall Chart (a slightly modernized adaptation of the Wall Chart found in Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin's book 'Your Money or Your Life')
- It produces a dashboard for reviewing net worth needed and your savings rate
- It projects your future net worth
- It provides a number of helpful tactical ratios to encourage your progress from month to month.
- It tracks your credit score over time
- It provides a monthly report for reflection and/or discussion
I plan to make the beta version of our spreadsheet freely available to any interested group members following the meeting because I'd love to get feedback from you all before we publish it.
I'm looking forward to seeing everyone again at the May meeting and hope to follow it up with some fun and frugal outdoor activities with everyone this summer.
- SSS aka Michael
NOTE: I updated the title of our Meetup group from 'Fort Collins Area FI/RE Fighters' to 'NoCo FI/RE Fighters'. While we started in Fort Collins, members have been attending our events from cities throughout Northern Colorado since our first meeting. Our admins live in Fort Collins, Evans, and Longmont and members have expressed interest in holding our Meetups in cities throughout the Front Range so I think NoCo is a better fit.
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I am looking forward to the meeting. Ecuador is on my list of potential international retirement locations.
I started using Mint many years ago. It was my first financial information aggregation tool. A few years ago I discovered Personal Capital and over time it has become my favorite site of this type. IMO Personal Capital does a much better job of asset management while Mint is stronger on budgeting and expense management.
I am very interested in your spreadsheet. I built one of my own but it is not all that simple. I understand it well enough because I built is but I would not want to inflict it on someone else. There are several things I could do to make it much easier to use but I have not bothered since it meets my needs. I update the spreadsheet twice a year to see how my portfolio is doing vs. my assumptions but use Personal Capital for more current information.
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I'm going to try my best to make the meeting on Sunday. I live in Erie, CO during the summers with my wife and newborn of 2 weeks. During the academic year, I teach community college on the island of Kauai.
I went to CSU for grad school and have a rental property near campus. I need to make a trip up there to make some minor repairs and plant some juniper trees (that I got for free). I am really interested to hear about the airbnb.com experiment. Instead of doing a 12 month lease, I am thinking of doing a 9 month college lease and doing airbnb.com with the property during the summer when I am in town.
I taught at FRCC for 2 years, so I am familiar with the Harmony Library. However, I haven't been back in about 6 years.
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How did the meeting go? I am very sorry I could not attend.
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How did the meeting go? I am very sorry I could not attend.
I had fun and thought it was informative. Unfortunately, I found out my rental in Fort Collins is not in the new correct zoning for short term rentals. I should have just gone for it and been grandfathered-in like the presenters. Good luck to you with your airbnb.com!
I was surprised that I was the only other person with a kid besides the presenters.
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We had a great time on the group hike last Sunday. It was an excellent opportunity to talk and enjoy the beautiful scenery.
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No meet ups for me on Kauai. It looks like my only chance for a meet-up is back in Colorado. We will be back in Colorado November 6th to January 6th. I am taking some additional family leave over winter break. We will also be back in Colorado during my regular summer months approximately May 8th to August 12th.
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I'm looking for a venue for a Camp Mustache Colorado event.
Does anyone know of a place with lodging (beds) that provides food as well?
Typically summer camps/church camps are good venues for this type of event.
PM me if you have any suggestions for venues!
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Any meet-ups schedule for this summer?
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Any meet-ups schedule for this summer?
Meetups have been happening fairly regularly, and details are usually posted to this meetup group:
https://www.meetup.com/NoCo-FIRE-Fighters
I believe the plan is to eventually move events off of meetup.com to a new platform: FI Clubs.
"Our mission is to promote local and online community events that empower people to become financially independent. FI Clubs exchange ideas about generating more income, reducing wasteful spending, and encouraging environmentally-friendly do-it-yourself (DIY) ethics in a fun, family-like atmosphere."
Here is a link to sign up if you want to explore: https://ficlubs.mn.co/share/yHougkUArsK2Dul5?utm_source=manual