My last update was March 23, a couple weeks into Covid madness. After that, with the exception of a couple of posts linked to other blogs, I went into a Covid fog. While I was always writing posts in my mind, I could not find […]
Boy this pandemic has thrown me for a loop to say the least. Like a weeble-wobble it has knocked me back and forth and it’s taken a lot of effort to stabilize from day to day. Slowly though as I adjust to the new normal […]
One of my favorite Financial Independence blogs is LateStarterFire. Late Starter is a 40 something woman from Australia who writes about her journey to Financial Independence. She’s a great writer and I can really identify with her story being a “late starter” myself. Also I […]
My last post was my first monthly review. It was the last day of February but I wrote about how we did in January. That same day I did something unusual for me since having found the Financial Independence movement (FI) just over a year […]
Let’s talk about money. Something I really enjoy about the FI community is that they talk about money! I think it’s important to talk about and not treat it like a taboo subject. To be honest, I feel a wee bit queasy as I write […]
A few years ago I saw Marie Kondo, the author of “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing” on a morning news show. It was a brief interview but had an immediate impact on me. She demonstrated how to […]
One of the reasons I started this blog was to hold myself accountable and measure our progress on our journey to FI. I am a fan of J. Money’s blog Budgets Are Sexy. A recent post of his got me thinking of what we have accomplished […]
Back in 2014 I read the book Zero Waste Home by Bea Johnson. If you haven’t heard of it she’s known for making her home and life as close to zero-waste as possible. She thought up ways to reduce how much trash she and her […]
I went from being a spendy gourmet to a frugal foodie after finding the Financial Independence (FI) movement. What I learned from the FI community is that there are three main categories of expenses that typically eat up people’s budgets the most: housing, transportation, and […]
I had an epiphany that Financial Independence = a shift in mindset. Like I said, “shift happens“. This shift in mindset saved me $37,656 dollars. Yep, here’s how. HOW MY TOTALLY RELIABLE 10 YEAR OLD CAR CAME INTO MY LIFE In my Pre-FI, zombie-hamster-wheel, head-in-the-sand life […]