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FI-nding My Balance

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Some of the core tenets of the FIRE move­ment: Save mon­ey, live below your means, choose mod­est hous­ing, buy used when you can, DIY when­ev­er pos­si­ble, ride your bike as much as you’re able, trav­el hack, and be fru­gal with food spend­ing. If you want to super­charge your FIRE jour­ney, maybe invest in real estate, […]

Monthly Status Report: August 2020

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Dis­claimer: some links may be affil­i­ate links. They help off­set the cost of keep­ing this blog run­ning! Why do I do a month­ly sta­tus report? I find it best to do a month­ly sta­tus report for a few rea­sons. It helps me eval­u­ate how I did the pre­vi­ous month. Did I hit a tar­get reduc­tion in spend­ing or did I go way over bud­get for […]

The Great Car Debate

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Long time read­ers will know one of the keys to my suc­cess was buy­ing, and keep­ing, my 2005 Pon­ti­ac Vibe in 2011. I bought Levi with under 100,000 miles on him for $8,000 in cold hard cash after a deer anni­hi­lat­ed my pre­vi­ous car. (It was a 2002 Dodge Neon. A real POS) Since then, I’ve bought new tires, […]

Monthly Status Report: March 2020

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Dis­claimer: some links may be affil­i­ate links. They help off­set the cost of keep­ing this blog run­ning! Why do I do a month­ly sta­tus report? I find it best to do a month­ly sta­tus report for a few rea­sons. It helps me eval­u­ate how I did the pre­vi­ous month. Did I hit a tar­get reduc­tion in spend­ing or did I go way over bud­get for […]

New Place, New Me.…… Nah

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I recent­ly moved into an apart­ment of my own. The last time this hap­pened was 4.5 years ago! I’ve had room­mates on and off through the years. My first two years of col­lege I had a room­mate. I had many room­mates when I was in the Air Force (59 oth­er women for 2 months!). The first place I lived after col­lege […]

Affinity Fraud in the FI Community

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I’ve been watch­ing events unfold in the last year or so in the FI Com­mu­ni­ty with some alarm and I can no longer keep silent about what I’m see­ing. I hes­i­tat­ed about writ­ing this post, as I try to keep this blog about my expe­ri­ences on the path to Finan­cial Inde­pen­dence and not about “dra­ma” in the com­mu­ni­ty […]