We’ve all made our fair share of money mistakes, but there is one money mistake that consistently shows up at the top of most people’s financial regret list: not saving enough money.  YOU CAN’T FINANCE YOUR RETIREMENT Saving for your future should be one of your most important financial goals. You will want to be […]

We’re past spring and nearly into midsummer, but that doesn’t mean the surge of spring cleaning stops. It’s never too late to start re-organizing your life, especially your finances! You may be sitting on subscriptions you haven’t used in a couple of months that are devouring your money, or you haven’t really looked over your […]

Do you have to be frugal in order to become financially independent? Although the answer to the question depends in part on who you define frugality, I would say that the general answer is no. When Joseph and I first started our lives together, we also embarked on the journey to financial independence though we […]

Joseph and I have decided that we want to be in a position to retire early if we choose too. We’ve talked about our plans in one of our older YouTube videos where we talk about how we intended to reach financial independence in nine years despite currently being one million dollars in debt. At that […]

The first time I visited a house on a lake, I fell in love. It was my second year of law school. One of my friends invited the rest of our circle to spend a few relaxing days at her grandparent’s lake house in upstate New York. It was a cozy, homey place with a […]

  I came across an inspirational quote on Instagram the other day that read: “What would you do if you were debt free?” The whole point of the quote, I think, was to get me to imagine how great I would feel if I were debt free right now. Presumably a whole world of possibilities will […]

Personal finance is personal but we believe that as personal finance bloggers we really should be sharing our numbers with our audience and here’s why. When people learn that we share all of our finances for the entire world to see, they are pretty shocked. That’s not particularly surprising when you consider how taboo money […]