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How We Escaped Living Paycheck To Paycheck

Jul 7, 2019

In this post, I’m going to share my life story. To me, it’s such as an emotional story to tell people how we got out of the living paycheck to paycheck. I never thought that breaking this cycle would even be possible. We went from broke to financially stable. Now I’m a big believer that anything is possible. It has been almost 21 years since we married. We were young. I was just 21 years old. Shortly after we tied...

4 Financial Metrics To Track If You Want To Achieve Financial Independence

Mar 25, 2019

Track these 4 financial metrics so you can achieve financial independence in your life and break living paycheck to paycheck for good. Four years ago, when I was on the fence about whether or not I should start a blog. I wanted to jot down my thoughts, make financial plans for my family and achieve financial independence. Writing my plan down on my planner wasn’t good enough. What I really needed was accountability. After several frustrations of losing scrap papers...

FIRE: The Ultimate Goals

Sep 24, 2017

Here I’ll discuss our FIRE goals. I can’t wait to be on FIRE. Don’t they say playing with fire is fun? I’m pretty sure that playing with this kind of FIRE is a hell of a lot of fun. Before I knew that the concept of Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) existed, I didn’t know what it was called or there was even a term at all. At the time, I only knew that I didn’t want to work until...