Our thirteen-year saga from student loan debt, to graduate school, shifting careers, and starting two businesses. At the lowest point, we went from a negative $107K net worth to $1.2M in nine years. This is how we became millionaires and reached financial independence.
Category: Finance
FIRE often involves mathematical analysis of your personal finances and holistic strategic approaches to your financial goals. Our Finance articles address this.
This category includes content about financial topics. This may relate to personal finance, investing, financial independence, and early retirement.
Our second monthly balance sheet update: with dividends added our savings rate ballooned. See the details for a little financial voyeurism!
Part of our method of becoming millionaires was to constantly leverage apps & websites to sell stuff locally, here’s our step-by-step guide and tools!
Making the wrong decision might cost you half your net worth like it did me. Learn about picking individual stocks vs investing in index funds, avoid my failures!
How to automate your finances: learn to put savings on auto, pay debts & credit cards without overdrawing accounts. Make a wealth-building routine!
See how our first month of transitioning into retirement went as we reveal our entire budget: income, spending, etc. Despite reduced income, we saved 65%!
We’ve made the jump from full-time to part-time work as a couple of 35-year-olds, here’s how we analyzed our early retirement health insurance options.
You know the basics of how to save money at the grocery store; this isn’t beans & rice. Be an expert: cut 30-40% more off your grocery bill, here’s our secrets!
How can unmitigated lifestyle creep destroy your wealth? A simple decision between two apartments created nearly $52K worth of opportunity cost for me!
Our 2019 budget reveals how we live luxuriously, with a mortgage! A deep analysis of how we—two 35-year-olds in an MCOL city—spent $40,885 in a year.