It wasn’t until I started getting active in personal finance communities that I heard of FI/RE – that is Financially Independent / Retire Early. Sometimes it simply goes by FIRE. It seemed so unachievable that I didn’t even look into it until after we had paid off our debt. But what am I talking about? […]

Since paying off our debt in July, things have not gone as well financially as I thought. We worked for 21 months to become debt free, and once the debt was gone I figured we’d be in an easy place financially to afford whatever we wanted. After all, now we don’t have any debt! Well […]

WE ARE DEBT FREE Holy crap you guys, we have been debt free for one whole week now! Of course I planned on writing this sooner, but the day after we became debt free I left to go to my hometown for a little staycation with my best friend while she was in town. I […]

There’s been a graphic circulating in the personal finance world the last few days. Recent research shows that the “average american” spends about $18,000 a year on non-essential items like eating out, cable, streaming services and subscription boxes.