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Posted on April 20, 2018April 20, 2018 by Tread Lightly, Retire Early · 38 Comments

Friday’s Frugal Five (2018 – Week 16)

This week has been a long one. We had a great time camping last weekend, but we didn't get home until 5PM Sunday night, and then we've had something going on in the evenings every night except for Tuesday. All good things, but it meant that this past week went by in a complete blur.…

Posted on April 16, 2018April 16, 2018 by Tread Lightly, Retire Early · 54 Comments

Monthly Financial Update: March 2018

Let's just start by saying that having pets isn't a frugal endeavor. One of our dogs, who is only 7.5 years old, has heart problems that landed her in the emergency vet overnight back in August. Against the odds, she's doing *mostly* better, though on twice a day medication for life, which by themselves aren't…

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Tread Lightly, Retire Early · 40 Comments

Friday’s Frugal Five (2018 – Week 15)

This week was jam packed with trainings, meetings, errands, and visiting with friends and family. I'm certainly thankful for my reduced schedule, because I'm not sure how I'd get it all done otherwise (I even managed a couple of runs outside of my Wednesday commute, albeit short ones). The great thing about the lengthening days…

Posted on April 9, 2018April 9, 2018 by Tread Lightly, Retire Early · 83 Comments

100 Blog Posts In 9 Months: Q&A

Blog post number 100. I'm not sure how I got here since starting the blog back in July, but I guess it pays off to be strict about posting every Monday and Friday without fail, with an occasional Wednesday for good measure. Instead of writing a post where I go over just my thoughts about…

Posted on April 6, 2018April 6, 2018 by Tread Lightly, Retire Early · 58 Comments

Friday’s Frugal Five (2018 – Week 14)

After a pretend spring where we had a few lovely sunny days in the 60s (and one amazing one that hit 70), we're back into the rain and gloom for the foreseeable future. I'm usually pretty okay with the weather we get in the northwest, as it's generally not ever too hot or too cold…

Posted on April 2, 2018April 3, 2018 by Tread Lightly, Retire Early · 41 Comments

My Podcast Debuts (FIRE Drill and Countdown To FI)

This week, I'm on a couple of podcasts for the very first time, so instead of a separate post today, I'd love for you to head on over to give them a listen. FIRE Drill Podcast FIRE Drill is one of the first podcasts I ever listened to, and it is one of my absolute…

Posted on March 30, 2018March 30, 2018 by Tread Lightly, Retire Early · 48 Comments

Friday’s Frugal Five (2018 – Week 13)

This week was a pretty exciting one for me on a non financial note. About a month ago, I had been invited to apply to an unpaid public appointment position in my city, and I was selected as one of six to have an interview for the spot. To my complete shock, I got a…

Posted on March 26, 2018March 26, 2018 by Tread Lightly, Retire Early · 49 Comments

Spring Garden Update (March 2018)

Spring officially started this past week, and the garden is beginning to show signs of life beyond just the kale that grew all through the winter. Crazy enough though, we did see the tiniest bit of snow on Friday. It didn't stick, but low temperatures were down in the 30s yet again. We may not…

Posted on March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 by Tread Lightly, Retire Early · 48 Comments

Friday’s Frugal Five (2018 – Week 12)

It's been a long week. Wednesday was a 13 hour work day (including a 3.5 hour dinner), and the preparation leading up to the day meant that Monday and Tuesday were reasonably long as well. On the upside, I did get in my run to work on Wednesday, and it didn't even rain on me.…

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Tread Lightly, Retire Early · 85 Comments

Suddenly Deaf: Health Care And Financial Independence

I'm generally an extremely healthy person. I've never come close to ever maxing out my sick leave at work (hardly ever using it), and the only time I've ever stayed overnight in a hospital was to give birth to my son. I'm not allergic to anything, and I generally check "no" all the way down…

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Happy Friday everyone! This week’s Frugal Five are all about reducing waste, fitting considering Sunday is Earth Day! Link in bio - there’s a story behind these three cups 😉 One of these things is not like the others 🤔 Love work meetings where we get fed with tasty food. Someone REALLY wanted his own watermelon 🍉 Finally got around to writing up my monthly update for March. April might be half over, but better late than never, right? March was a three paycheck month, which meant we had quite a bit more income to work with than normal. If only that was what we saw every month, right? ;) Had a fabulous (free) time camping this weekend at a new to us DNR campground. We got rained on off and on, but the campground had a great covered area that kept us dry and the fire kept us warm. And I took about a million pictures because the area was so gorgeous. And as always, it was awesome getting off grid and out of cell service range for a couple of days.

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