Category: FI Journey

  • 2021 Recap + 2022 Goals

    2021 Recap + 2022 Goals

    Happy 2022! βœ¨πŸŽ‰πŸΎ It’s time to touch on some FIRE achievements in the past year and our goals for the new year. Recapping 2021, we had some wild and crazy financial moments. Most importantly of all, I believe was actually being able to define what FIRE means to us and set ourselves on the path…

  • No Spend November

    No Spend November

    Happy post turkey month! With the holidays upon us, it’s more important than ever to know our limits and set boundaries. I’m talking about how the American consumer culture pushes a society that can’t afford it to max out their credit cards and dry up their meager savings all in the name of “gift giving”.…

  • New Horizons

    New Horizons

    Bienvenue! Some good news to share. Thanks to happenstance, we will be able to shave 2 years off our FI horizon. How? I was offered and accepted a job that increased our income by about 17k per year. πŸŽ‰ Going with the save more, spent less adage; that clocks us at achieving FI in about…

  • Stuck in the Rat Race

    Stuck in the Rat Race

    Hey! Yes, we’re still alive. Got sucked into the day to day monotony of work, eat, sleep, repeat // sometimes not in that order. If you follow the posts on this blog you most likely know how it is or can relate. It’s so easy to slip into the state of just letting time pass…

  • TheMillennialFI

    TheMillennialFI

    We made it to 2021! Welcome to TheMillennialFI. Let’s all take a breath and savor this achievement. For many past years, I’ve started out with new goals. This time I want to do things a little different because new year resolutions are out dated and tend to work against us.Β  It’s not really a goal…