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44 stories in the playbook. The full directory has every category.
Entries checked October 2026. Summaries are RogLabs's own one-line notes, not quotes from the pages. A link is not a recommendation. Nothing here is financial, investment, or tax advice, and nothing here promises a return.
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A first-person post about scheduling a payday transfer into a brokerage to buy a broad equity ETF on a repeating basis.
r/personalfinance · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A twelve-year financial-independence update from a couple who kept funding accounts through that stretch.
r/financialindependence · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A year-one financial-independence update from an immigrant household in a high-cost city.
r/financialindependence · found 2026-10-14 · Source
An immigrant's financial-independence update on a multi-year saving and investing streak.
r/financialindependence · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A first-person note from someone a few years past leaving a long engineering job, on how the portfolio is drawn.
r/financialindependence · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A multi-year financial-independence review of contributions, spending, and the accounts that received them.
r/financialindependence · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A Bogleheads poster describing the point they stopped changing a portfolio in search of a hotter result.
r/Bogleheads · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A financial-independence post about a layoff, a planned break, and contributions already in place.
r/financialindependence · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A Bogleheads couple describing retirement accounts built from years of contributions, with a 401(k) menu that overlaps the S&P 500.
r/Bogleheads · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A Bogleheads couple's writeup of consolidating accounts into a two-fund mix they plan to keep funding.
r/Bogleheads · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A first-person account of saving and investing from a standing start until the household could retire, over nine years.
Mr. Money Mustache · found 2026-10-28 · Source
A beginner's post describing a plan to spread a first bitcoin purchase of about $5,000 across 12 months.
r/Bitcoin · found 2026-10-28 · Source
A young Bogleheads poster asking how to rebuild a brokerage account that was funded without a written plan.
r/Bogleheads · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A first-person post about a monthly mix of an S&P 500 fund, a sector fund, and an international fund that has drifted from its starting weights.
r/personalfinance · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A reader case study about a cash windfall and whether to spread an index-fund purchase across many months.
JL Collins · found 2026-10-21 · Source
A Bogleheads request for a plain way to consolidate taxable and tax-advantaged accounts.
r/Bogleheads · found 2026-10-14 · Source
An eleven-year financial-independence update with the poster's own charts of contributions and allocation.
r/financialindependence · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A first-person post about small weekly purchases of fractional ETF shares in accounts the author opened for grandchildren.
r/personalfinance · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A Bogleheads first post about leaving an advisor and placing an inherited brokerage account at Vanguard.
r/Bogleheads · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A Bogleheads poster describes dropping active trades in a Roth IRA and moving the account toward ongoing index purchases.
r/Bogleheads · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A Mr. Money Mustache post aimed at someone starting from no invested savings.
Mr. Money Mustache · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A Bogleheads thread about returning to a few broad funds and automatic contributions after a portfolio got crowded.
r/Bogleheads · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A first-person note on moving house-sale proceeds into a set Vanguard mix at once, instead of spreading the purchase.
JL Collins · found 2026-10-21 · Source
A Bitcoin poster describing a daily recurring buy that started on Robinhood and a debate about moving it to Strike.
r/Bitcoin · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A Bogleheads note from someone whose retirement contributions are on track and whose cash picture is not.
r/Bogleheads · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A Bogleheads poster weighing an advisor fee against running a simple mix themselves after a rollover to Vanguard.
r/Bogleheads · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A financial-independence post from a mid-career professional comparing their path with higher-income retirement stories.
r/financialindependence · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A financial-independence question about an inherited brokerage full of mutual funds and what to do next.
r/financialindependence · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A first-time buyer asking how a small daily Bitcoin purchase is set up, and why one app waives a recurring fee.
r/Bitcoin · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A Bogleheads poster describing a shift from single stocks into broad index funds.
r/Bogleheads · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A financial-independence snapshot of taxable and retirement balances for the years before age 65.
r/financialindependence · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A first-year retirement post focused on taxes, not on a new trading plan.
r/financialindependence · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A first-person note about dollar-cost averaging for roughly two and a half years and reaching 2 bitcoin earlier than the author expected.
r/Bitcoin · found 2026-10-28 · Source
A financial-independence household laying out retirement accounts and asking whether work could stop.
r/financialindependence · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A Bogleheads poster trying to simplify a pile of workplace and IRA accounts accumulated across jobs.
r/Bogleheads · found 2026-10-14 · Source
Strike's blog index, the company's own notes on using the app.
Strike · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A ten-year career reflection posted to financial independence, centered on steady saving rather than trades.
r/financialindependence · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A personal account of buying bitcoin on a monthly schedule and tracking how the holdings change over time.
Carl Menger · found 2026-10-21 · Source
A Wealth of Common Sense story about an investor who only bought at peaks and still stayed invested.
A Wealth of Common Sense · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A yearly personal check-in from a married 26-year-old whose net worth rose from about $72,000 to about $153,000.
r/financialindependence · found 2026-10-28 · Source
A financial-independence thread about milestones during the long middle of funding a portfolio.
r/financialindependence · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A Bitcoin thread asking how people picked the monthly amount on a multi-year purchase schedule.
r/Bitcoin · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A first-person post about a small repeating Bitcoin purchase and the schedule the author describes keeping.
thinhcorner.com · found 2026-10-14 · Source
A third yearly financial-independence update tracking savings from a salary in the UK.
r/financialindependence · found 2026-10-14 · Source
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