At this point, we are absolutely not going to hit a 50% savings rate again this year, though we should be above the 40% mark. Much more than last year, I'm actually okay with that. I expect that we will hit that savings rate eventually (or, at least, when we stop paying for childcare), but…
The inaugural Cents Positive in Denver last year was the very first personal finance conference or event that I'd ever attended. I had gone to local meet ups and met friends that way, but an organized event is very different from an afternoon at the park or a brewery. The weekend was absolutely magical, and…
It's hard to believe I've been doing these Women's Personal Finance Wednesday Roundups for an entire year now. I might have initially fallen into the Women's Personal Finance niche mostly by accident, but I'm loving it here. One year, 52 weeks, of these posts down. Here's to year two. I can't wait to see what…
It's Sunday and I'm headed home from my first ever FinCon. While I had started blogging before the conference in 2017, I wasn't enmeshed in the community in a real way at that point and didn't really think about going. 2018, however, was a very different story. I still didn't go - much because it…
A common argument against the financial independence community is that anyone who "retires early," really isn't - that they blog or side hustle or do something for income after their retirement from their day job. And to that argument, many people's contingency plans actually do contain the idea that worst case, they "can always go…
Let's just say that this has been an expensive summer. Between vet bills, backyard fence replacement, and spending for future vacations, we have spent significantly more money than is average for us. That said, for July in specific, we knew it was going to be expensive because of our dog's surgery, so we spent accordingly…
I first got to know Courtney and her family through her Instagram, Fire2Moms1Babe, as the breadwinner of her financially independent family of three. Her wife Nicole stays home with their young daughter, and they plan to pull their full early retirement trigger in the next few years when Courtney quits her job. I reached out…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
One of my very early blog posts I wrote was about my experience of cutting down to part time hours while in pursuit of financial independence. The post itself is a bit rough as it was written in literally my first month of blogging, but it's still one I'm very proud of. On the path…
Welcome to another week of the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn’t certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I’ve started sharing these posts, I’m so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…