“Car payments?!? For FUCK’S SAKE, is there a commit suicide card I can play? All hope is lost!”Īll this before the game actually officially started. “That’s too much house! Sell it and rent a 1 bedroom apartment near the airport you moron!”īut the game wouldn’t allow her to do that so then she got all angry. I got a doctor, so I was like “WOOHOO!” but then I read how much debt I had and I was like “Holy shit! $150k in student debt?!?” So in other words a pretty accurate depiction of real life.įIRECracker was a pilot, which is great, but then she got saddled with credit card debt, fancy private school for the kids, and a massive mortgage. That determines your starting income, but it can also come along with debt. So how this game works is that everyone gets assigned a career like barista, secretary, engineer, etc.

So I knew this was going to be interesting. “Ooh, math! Let’s MATH SHIT UP!” she shouted whipping out her trusty phone and starting up the calculator app. I’m not sure how popular this game is with the general public but as soon as we unpacked the game and Alan distributed out a balance sheet we had to fill out to keep track of our income and investments, FIRECracker started nerding out immediately. The tagline was “Get Out of the Rat Race,” so we wanted to try it out to see if we could get some inspiration for our FI board game. So imagine our surprise when Alan and Katie had bought a copy of Robert Kiyosaki’s CASHFLOW game. 1500 Days.” It was a ton of fun, and you’ll be able to listen to the podcast episode when it goes live on ChooseFI in a few days.Īnyway, while we were at last year’s UK Chautauqua, we had gotten into a discussion about how cool it would be to build an FI board game to teach people the principles of FI in a fun way. And after a memorable week spent with our favourite peeps, we headed for Basingstoke (aka “Amazingstoke!”) to stay with Alan and Katie, our Chautauqua organizers, and while we were there, ended up recording an episode of the ChooseFI podcast along with JL “ The Godfather” Collins and Carl “ Mr.

As FIRECracker mentioned in her previous Chautauqua post, we flew 4000 miles to freeze our butts off in the UK for our Chautauqua reunion and it was 100% worth it! Even though we hadn’t seen our Chautauquan family since last August, we picked up exactly where we left off. Recently we were in Jolly Old England with our friends Alan and Katie.

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