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Fiery Millennials

Financial Independence from a millennial's point of view.

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Mid-Year Check In

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How time flies! I can’t believe the year is already half over. Seems like just yes­ter­day the weath­er start­ed to warm up. Now it’s almost too hot and humid to func­tion nor­mal­ly out­side! At the begin­ning of the year, I declared 2017 to be the “Year of Car­ing”. Based on the goals I list­ed in that post.….. yeah […]

My Vision of FI: Phase One

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I’ve writ­ten pre­vi­ous­ly about my plan for finan­cial inde­pen­dence. Twice, actu­al­ly. Once in My 10 Year Plan post and again in it’s sequel, My 10 Year Plan: 2016 Update. I know, I’m real good at com­ing up with titles. Be jeal­ous of my skil­lz. For those of you that have just stum­bled across this lit­tle slice […]

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

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I’m up to my eye­balls in paper­work for the house, inspec­tions on the house, mak­ing calls about the house, and doing 12 hour work days this week. Mrs. Picky Pinch­er has gra­cious­ly agreed to do a guest post to help me out! She is the blog­ger and res­i­dent klutz at www.pickypinchers.com. She writes about her journey […]

My Investments

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Before we dive deep into the world of invest­ments, I want to make clear I am not a finan­cial advis­er. What I write should not be tak­en for advice. I don’t even know if I’m doing this thing right! That being said, I’ve received a few emails ask­ing me what I invest in, what my invest­ments look like, and what Bartholomew likes […]

2017: The Year of Caring

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Y’all, the FI com­mu­ni­ty is seri­ous­ly one of the best com­mu­ni­ties I’ve ever been a part of. There are a ton of amaz­ing­ly smart, kind, and wel­com­ing peo­ple every where you look! Not to men­tion, they come up with thought-pro­­vok­ing and life chang­ing posts. One of the posts that made me stop and think recent­ly was a post from […]

Uber Frugal Challenge: Jan 2017

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I thought I would try some­thing new for Jan­u­ary, so I’m par­tic­i­pat­ing in Mrs. Fru­gal­woods’ Uber Fru­gal Chal­lenge! Below are some steps from the arti­cle I linked that artic­u­late what I’d like to achieve by doing the chal­lenge. Step 1: Estab­lish your goals I am par­tic­i­pat­ing in this chal­lenge to save up as much mon­ey as pos­si­ble for […]