The online personal finance community, and especially the financial independence subset, seems to be filled with people who make some seriously above average incomes. While I will begrudge no one for earning that high salary, it can be more than a bit discouraging when you realize the timelines many of them talk about could never…
My husband was out of town this whole week on a hunting trip, so it's been an odd seven days to say the least. Since our son has been born, the longest he's been away overnight was two nights in a row prior to this, and the kiddo wasn't exactly thrilled about daddy being gone…
Happy Wednesday, friends. We're at hump day once again, and another edition of my women's personal finance Wednesdays. The content published this past week was amazing, and these are just a few of my very favorite post by some of the women writing about personal finance and financial independence online. Representation matters, and you reading…
The natural gas explosion I mentioned last week ended up being a much smaller deal than the headlines first made it sound, and everything is back to normal as far as garbage service and home natural gas usage. Whenever some acute situation requires changes to daily lives, be it a break in the natural gas…
I am loving putting together my new Women's Personal Finance Wednesdays series, but it's going to take me a little while to get used to putting out content three days a week. Even though I'm reading the blog posts anyway, and the Wednesday writing isn't all that long, it still means that I'm publishing 50%…
I have to say that I am loving putting this series together. I may not have initially started this blog to champion the women in the personal finance / financial independence space, but it's become a very important part of my blogging journey, and this series is a natural extension of that. Representation matters, and…
Apparently these days we either have a really great month or a not so good month where our savings rate is concerned because in between hasn't happened for some time now. And since August was by far the best month of the year for our finances, September had to be one of the pricer ones,…
Last Friday was my grandmother's birthday, so we went to Leavenworth for the weekend. We'd taken her there for the first time last year and randomly ended up being there for the Autumn Leaf Festival, apparently the oldest festival the town has, and it's a ton of fun. They shut down the main street for…
As I said last week, I had been kicking around the idea for this blog roundup series for quite some time now but hadn't made up my mind to commit to it. I have to say though, with the amazing response to week one, I am so glad I went ahead and started. We've come…
The end of yet another month, and I get to share with you all another fabulous guest post about a fellow blogger's journey toward zero waste and a more sustainable lifestyle. While at first blush, personal finance, financial independence, ad sustainability don't seem to have that much in common, I'm finding that again and again,…