Happy Friday, all. Everything I've been writing lately has been extremely angry and depressing, and while I absolutely feel those things, I'm going to attempt to be a bit more positive today. We'll see how long that lasts, but I do want to remind myself - and all of you - that not all is…
Well, apparently this is my first update for this year’s goals. I’d completely forgotten that I hadn’t even officially written them down until March, so I suppose it make sense than my first check in is in July. While I may not think about these goals daily, I do enjoy having somewhat of a framework…
As of this past Friday, I have now been writing at Tread Lightly Retire Early for a full three years. My first post was published July 10, 2017, which feels like forever ago but also not that long at all. Life has certainly changed in that time, and this blog has grown bigger and more…
Today marks three full years since I started writing this blog. I hope/plan to have a post dedicated to it soon, but just in case (since I've slowed down on Monday posts for now), I wanted to acknowledge it here on a Friday as well. I started this blog for the accountability, but it's grown…
Well, I think I had some unfounded hope at the last quarterly update back in April that things would be more back to normal by now, but they clearly aren't. COVID cases here in the United States are higher than ever, and I'm concerned what 4th of July gatherings are going to do to them…
When I first started blogging back in summer 2017, I had absolutely no idea what I was doing and knew no one in the online community. Months before I had even figured out that Twitter was where I would find the majority of my personal finance friends, I'd somehow connected with a few other new…
I've been blogging for close to two and a half years now, and the personal finance community (and this blog) have become an integral part of my life. I couldn't imagine when I got started that a blog could possibly have such an impact on my whole life, but it absolutely has been. And a…
While December hasn't officially yet ended, I feel it's close enough to the end of the year now for me to do a follow up on my 2019 goals. (ha, just kidding, it's very much January now). I started really laying out annual goals for myself last year, in 2018, and I find that I…
I did this blog year in reflection for the first time last year, and it was a lot of fun to look back and see what my top posts were over that time. I've decided to keep an annual tradition of it going so I can look back at the end of the each calendar…
It's hard to believe we are already almost at the end of the third quarter of 2019. Didn't we just go to Hawaii? Apparently not, considering that was almost eight months ago now. That said, we have definitely packed quite a bit into the first nine months of the year. Most of it has been…