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Financial Independence from a millennial's point of view.

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Monthly Status Report: January 2019

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Dis­claimer: some links may be affil­i­ate links. They help off­set the cost of keep­ing this blog run­ning! It’s baa-aackk! Now that I can stand fac­ing my finances again, I can com­pile every­thing into a sta­tus report again. I got many emails, mes­sages, com­ments and paper air­plane notes ask­ing me to bring back the sta­tus reports. I heard you.… and here […]

Monthly Status Report: July 2018

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Wel­come to the new month­ly sta­tus report! Now that I am no longer employed by any­one, I fig­ured it was time to change up the for­mat of the sta­tus reports. I didn’t want to get rid of them entire­ly as I feel it’s impor­tant to share what tran­si­tion­ing to self-employ­­men­t/­­Fi­­nan­­cial Inde­pen­dence looks like. I’m going to break out my […]

Monthly Status Report: July 2017

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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 […]

How I saved $130k in 3 years.…. and you can too!

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Before we get to the super juicy stuff, Julie from Mil­len­ni­al Boss has gra­cious­ly fea­tured my guest post Work­ing is Expen­sive. I encour­age you to go check it out! The news is full of arti­cles about the Obsta­cles to Mil­len­ni­als Sav­ing for Retire­ment. Mil­len­ni­als aren’t sav­ing enough for retire­ment. Half of Mil­len­ni­al women aren’t sav­ing for retire­ment. […]

Net Worthiness

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Some­thing that’s been both­er­ing me for a while is the term “Net Worth”. Peo­ple say “My net worth is $xxx,xxx.” I even say it, at the end of every month­ly sta­tus report. My net worth is _______. I even wrote a whole post when my net worth tipped over the $100k mark. Wikipedia says Net worth is used when […]

MEGA MILESTONE: $100K

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GUYS! LOOK!!!   I HIT $100k NET WORTH!! In case you could­n’t tell, I am SUPER PUMPED I hit the 6 fig­ures mile­stone. Me and Jere­my ren­ner are super excit­ed $100K! I just can’t believe it’s actu­al­ly here! I start­ed out in 2014 at the age of 23 with a net worth of $10k. In 2.5 years (or 30 months […]