If you just don’t count a monthly budget sized single spending category—our mysterious “gift” expense—we stuck to our FIRE budget in August!
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Our quiet July still included a trip to OBX and DC, but hey, that’s what the point of FIRE is, right? Time for what you love! Travel, friends, and family!
Learn how we managed our FIRE budget in June and took care of our home & health. And help us pick which nonprofit to support to fight hunger by voting!
Discover how we traveled through 3 countries for 6 weeks and cut our costs by half with rewards points. Plus, support a charity that teaches swimming.
From Spain to the Netherlands, discover how we had a month of European adventure on our FIRE budget. Plus, vote for an active lifestyle supporting charity!
After bucking the odds for years, we finally missed a flight! Fortunately, some quick thinking avoided thousands in expenses. Read our monthly FIRE update.
Over the course of spending multiple weeks ill in February, we began booking our spring travel and sorted out our health and dental insurance changes.
Learn how a quick decision on Chris’s part managed to cut his dentist bill from about $3,600 to under $2,000! Read our January 2023 FIRE budget update.
…AND $200 of liquor?! It’s all part of our Portugal to USA travel adventure for $60/night! See how we did it along with the rest of our monthly FIRE budget!
Our annual spending review details how we lived an adventure-filled life in 2021 on about $51K/year as two 37-year-olds. Steal our tricks to reach FIRE!










