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Monthly Status Report: January 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 […]

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 […]

Monthly Status Report: April 2016

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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 a par­tic­u­lar cat­e­gory? Did I earn more? What was my over­all sav­ings rate? It helps keep me account­able. How […]

Savings: Year Two

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This week marks my sec­ond year of sav­ings! April 2014 is when I offi­cial­ly ramped up my FI plans after I fin­ished get­ting all the house­hold neces­si­ties. I thought it’d fun to look back over the last 12 months and see what I’ve learned, some fun stats and pret­ty pic­tures. What I’ve Learned Any costs occured while trav­el­ing […]

A Year Without Cable

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A year ago, I can­celed the cable por­tion of my media bill. I was FREEEEEEEEEEEEE! I was so hap­py, I could’ve flown away. Actu­al­ly, it kind of made me mis­er­able for awhile. I called them up with the inten­tion of them extend­ing my 12 month pro­mo price, which they stal­wort­ly refused to do. The best they could offer […]

Monthly Spending Report: May 2015

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The month of May has come and gone at light­ning speed. From start­ing out the month cel­e­brat­ing my best friend’s wed­ding to clos­ing it out by cram­ming all my stuff in a U‑Haul, it’s been quite the month. The wed­ding went won­der­ful­ly, the dress­es were beau­ti­ful and the smiles abound­ed. I’m not sure I can talk so […]