Can you feel it too? The way the mind splinters, zipping around like a hummingbird with too much sugar in its system? Bzzzzrrrr, flitting from one thing to the next. I wrote that sentence, and then I remembered that I wanted to buy my sister a gift. She had casually mentioned that she wanted a […]
Budgeting for a Massive Life Change – I’m Moving to Amsterdam!
I have a big announcement to make. I’m moving. Again. To Amsterdam. If you’ve been following the blog, this might come as a shock, as I just finished a coast-to-coast move. Although I thought I would be sticking around in Santa Barbara for the next four years, things changed. Life demanded a pivot, so I […]
Big Sur and Other February Expenses
Note: This post may contain affiliate links. For more info read my disclosure. I never much liked the dark, cold month of February. All I had to do was check out my expense report from last year to remember the snowy days. That changed when I spent it in Santa Barbara this year. I went on a […]
Shredding Pow and Other January 2021 Expenses
A new year, finally. I feel hope for 2021, even though there’s still a global pandemic, injustice and racial inequality, and things will still fall apart no matter the decade. Yet turning over the New Year still felt like a much needed mental refresher, an opportunity to squish all the negative things in 2020 into a box […]
4 Ways Financial Independence Changed Our Lives (Work, Health, Time, Mentality)
** Financial independence has far-reaching effects on our lives, and for many the pursuit of independence and the obtaining of it has impacted us in profound ways. Today, we hear from Jenni and Chris from TicTocLife, two mid-thirties career-driven folks who reached financial independence by age 33 and retired early at 35. If you are […]
How I Saved $580,000 By The Age of 27
How did this happen? I am reviewing my finances, and the number on the screen bamboozles me. I’m not complaining, but I don’t really understand how it all happened so fast. The numbers are all there, the graphs show a steady increase of my net worth all the way to the current mind-boggling number. My […]
The Sunday Sharies: Volume 28
Sunday Scaries (n): The Sunday evening dread that creeps in when anticipating work in the morning. Shut down Sunday Scaries with this series: Sunday Sharies! These are the articles, links, and content I’ve read this week that I think are worth sharing. FIRE Articles Our 2020 Finances (Millennial Revolution) If I can’t use geographic arbitrage, […]
Every Penny of $20,000 I Spent in 2020
I’m positive that 2020 will be a bookmark year, one that we can flip to easily in our minds and remember exactly what we were doing when the whole world shut down. For me personally, 2020 brought on lots of change and forced flexibility. I moved from New York to California, worked from home the […]
A New Foster Cat And Other December 2020 Expenses
Due to COVID-19 and other concerns, instead of flying home after Thanksgiving I decided to stick around my parents’ home for the month of December. I always enjoy Denver’s blue skies, but I was missing MechaniCat badly. To ease my homesickness and liven up my childhood home, we looked into picking up a foster cat. […]
Self-care and other November 2020 Expenses
No Negativity November The theme of this month was “self-care.” It’s easy to get used to the day-to-day rhythm of life and forget to make that extra effort to take care of ourselves. I pushed hard in November for all forms of self-care. I got myself a therapist, went for yoga and a run (yes […]