We saved an unbelievable $85,000 last year! That is the most we've ever increased our savings in a single year. In May we it a big financial milestone: we had saved our way to a $200,000 nest egg. Then six months later we hit another amazing milestone. Thanks to our decent savings rate and strong ... read more
Why We Stopped Trying to Keep Up with the Frugal-Joneses
Frugality is all the rage. When Joseph and I decided to pay off $30,000 worth of debt this year, we naturally decided to frugalize our budget. But what started out as a tool to help us reach our financial goals faster, quickly morphed into this strange pressure to spend less and less because it was ... read more
How to Create a Debt Payoff Plan You Can Actually Stick With
Want to know how to create a debt repayment plan that you can stick to? We share our best strategies in this step-by-step guide to paying off debt. Back in March, Joseph and I sat down and actually tallied up our debts. Between our mortgage and student loans, we knew we had to owe well into the ... read more
Retire Early on Just A Million? How?!?
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 ... read more
The Powerful Recipe That Will Give You Financial Freedom in 7 Steps
These seven steps to financial freedom are a great guide to help you get ahead financially and set short term and long term money goals. I rediscovered an old journal of mine this weekend that made me stop and think about how our goals can seem impossible, especially when it comes to finances. ... read more
July 2018 Financial Update
We first started doing these debt pay off updates early last year. Back then we were pretty heavily focused on debt pay off. I’d just taken a major pay cut and our budget suddenly felt a lot more constricted than we were comfortable with. Once we hit the debt pay off goals we’d originally set, doing ... read more
