Today marks a decade in our house. Ten years ago, we were twenty three years old, new to being back in the area, and determined to buy a home. Or well, I was determined to buy a home, and my husband was along for the ride. Six months of dreaming online and then six months…
Well, we made it. It is now the year 2021 and 2020 is forever behind us. I wish that meant there was a magic switch to improve the current situation, but that isn't so. I did finish out my blogging year with a gratitude post looking back at 2020, and that exercise really helped my…
I wrote a guest post for The Fioneers summer of 2019, reflecting on my choice to cut down my hours at work and live out my #SlowFI priorities. A year and a half later, my husband has joined me in reduced work hours. While I had mentioned the option to him many times over the…
Looking back to where our finances were in 2017 when we had to use our emergency fund, we've come a long way in getting a closer hold on our monthly expenses and are so much better prepared to adjust as needed. We've been lucky this year to both have our jobs, though our roommate has…
COVID-19, protests over police brutality, continually high unemployment, and a looming recession (but hopefully not a depression). May, and all of 2020 thus far, has been a wild ride, and it appears that the uncertainty will be with us for a while yet. Thankfully, we are very, very lucky to have our jobs right now,…
Well, life is certainly different than when I wrote up these goals back in January. Our world has gone topsy turvy, and I'm so glad that I've spent the last couple of years working on my SlowFI journey with a focus on living in the present. With so many long term goals behind me (degree,…
I love hearing the personal finance stories from my Women's Personal Finance Facebook group. The members all have such different life experiences, and I've learned a ton in the two years since I created the group. With this blog, I realize I have a rare opportunity to amplify women's voices in the personal finance and…
It may be the end of January before I'm finally publishing these goals, but I've had them written down since the beginning on the year and they have been informing my choices already. This will be my third year of publicly goal setting and sharing on the blog, and I've found that having them written…
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…
While there continue to be more women writing about personal finance, the mainstream narrative is still that it is mostly men pursuing financial independence. I have a group of more than 10,000 women actively talking about money together on Facebook though, so I know well that that isn't the case. In order to continue one…