Learn the steps I used to withdraw and rebalance our portfolio, as I made our first investment withdrawal of our FI life.

How we took advantage of a low income year for tax savings using Roth conversions, standard deductions, and tax gains harvesting.

Starting a brewery transformed our approach to personal finances, teaching us the value of a scarcity mindset and leading us to FI.

It’s been one year since we landed in Tucson and started living a “financially independent” lifestyle. It seems fitting to do a recap.

Learn how I used Canva and Amazon KDP to create a kids activity book that is now for sale on Amazon.

It started when my husband purchased a condo in 2009 with $500 down. Now 14 years later, we live in a 6 bedroom view home.

Net worth is what you have minus what you owe. But the details of how to calculate net worth are nuanced and sometimes confusing.

We traveled for 203 days, stayed at 144 different places, and drove 21,821 miles – and our trip in total cost us $46,351.51.

To my son, it’s simply wherever we slept the night before. But to me I somehow need it to be more.

Every little way you can lower expenses and make minor shifts to your lifestyle will add up to huge impacts on your personal finances.

There are many one-time things we have done over the years to lower expenses, like refinance a home loan and switch cell phone providers....

I was stumped on how to explain the value of “new” to a 4-year-old. Why does it cost so much more when it’s new?

My money statement, aka my “why” for money, dictates how I spend my money and the life I am working toward achieving.

The goal of reaching financial independence is to be able to stop carrying buckets of money upstream to keep the river of expenses flowing.

2022 will be marked in my life as the year of change. I am excited to have made a choice for a better life for me and my family.