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Fiery Millennials

Financial Independence from a millennial's point of view.

Gwen [Fiery Millennials]

Earth Day 2015

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Hap­py Earth Day! It’s a great reminder to sit back and think about our impact on Moth­er Earth. You might think, I’m one per­son, what can I do that will have an impact? As one per­son, hon­est­ly, not a whole lot.  BUT. When we all do a lit­tle bit, the impact mul­ti­plies into some­thing amaz­ing! In just a few short […]

Rant and Rave 1

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I decid­ed to do a series of posts called Rant and Rave, in which I rant about a few things, and then also rave about a few things. I know, it’s a real­ly orig­i­nal title haha. RANT(S) Now that more and more of my friends have grad­u­at­ed from col­lege and got­ten “big peo­ple jobs”, I’ve start­ed to see a dis­turb­ing trend pop up. […]

Questions to Ask About a New Job

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The job hunt­ing process. Isn’t it just the most fun thing you’ve ever done? What could pos­si­bly be bet­ter then end­less­ly mak­ing cov­er let­ters and throw­ing your resume at a mil­lion poten­tial employ­ers? Oh gee, Gwen, I don’t know, actu­al­ly hav­ing a job? [side­note: results not guar­an­teed for the resume throw­ing process. Bet­ter results come from gen­tly set­ting it on […]

The Basics of Budgeting

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Every­one says hav­ing a bud­get is the first step on the jour­ney to finan­cial inde­pen­dence. Ok, fine, almost every­one. But, no one ever tells you what a bud­get should look like or even how to make one.  Bud­gets can be dev­as­tat­ing­ly sim­ple or hel­la com­pli­cat­ed. What your bud­get looks like depends sole­ly on you and your situation. […]

Monthly Spending Report: March 2015

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I’m going to do a series of month­ly spend­ing reports, where­in (as one might guess) I will be expos­ing the nit­ty grit­ty details of my month­ly bud­get. I want to do this for sev­er­al rea­sons. One, to out­line that not spend­ing much isn’t ter­ri­bly dif­fi­cult, and two, to help you all hold me account­able to my promis­es. How […]

My Financial Background, Part II

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I held a vari­ety of jobs in high school. I was a babysit­ter, camp coun­selor, life guard, retail work­er and final­ly staff at a day care. Hav­ing all these jobs meant I could save some mon­ey, have a bit for spend­ing, and save up for the down pay­ment for this lit­tle beau­ty. I knew I could­n’t afford much, so I found one of the […]