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b'We\\u2019re kicking off \\u2018Millionaire Next Door Week\\u2019 on So Money today.\\xa0 We\\u2019ve been revving up for this spectacular week for some time, I\\u2019ve been enlisting your help to either nominate yourself or people you know and excited to say that we received many more entries than we could record for this first week\\u2026But perhaps we\\u2019ll do a second week later in the fall. So many nuggets of wisdom to share\\u2026 Our first guest is Darrow Kirkpatrick, the author of Retiring Sooner: How to Accelerate your Financial Independence and who runs the blog Can I Retire Yet? And the answer for Darrow, at least is, YES. He, in fact retired when he was 50 years old with over a million in the bank. You wouldn\\u2019t really know\\u2026He has a modest home, rides his bike most places\\u2026And when I visited at his home a few years ago on a story for Yahoo News, I don\'t recall seeing a TV in his living room. Darrow graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Civil Engineering. He started and sold his own business\\u2026After 29 years of programming, designing and managing computer software, Darrow was able to retire at the ripe age of 50. How did he do it? Well we\\u2019ll discuss this in the show momentarily but he attributes a lot of his financial success to good ol\\u2019 hard work, frugality, serious saving and certain investing strategies. Patience helped along the way, too.

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