Looks like FIRE is in full swing! February brought us under $200 of income to cover nearly $8K in expenses—mostly while traveling in Portugal with friends and family!
Tag: Budget Updates
In the links below, you’ll find our monthly and annual FIRE budget updates that reveal our personal finance decisions through our income and expenses. We hope they offer you guidance and inspiration on your FIRE journey.
You’ll see how we manage our money, travel the world, and live a meaningful life on a reasonable budget.
You’ll also learn from our mistakes, challenges, and tips along the way.
You’ll find all of our posts tagged as Budget Updates in the listing on this page.
Our budget updates before the start of 2022 tended to break down every single monthly expense category. That’s helpful if you’re looking for details about things that tend to repeat for us (utilities, insurance, mortgage, and so on).
Whether you’re new to FIRE or already living it, we invite you to explore our budget updates!
Virginia’s winter chased us out to Florida, we kicked off a month long trip to Portugal, and we donate to a nonprofit left in a lurch by the USAID changes.
We break down our huge $32K budget, show how we took a $12K winter escape on less than $1K, and donate to a top emergency housing charity.
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Freely Thankful (Nov 2024 Update)
A quiet, Virginia November with some of our favorite “Nothing” expenses and one little hot tip to earn extra credit card rewards.
Join our adventure to Germany & Belgium on just $28/day/person! How? Staying with family/friends, rewards points, and some other hacks!
Chris’s new “hobby” has taken over more than just his time…and we get ready for bretzels, lederhosen, and beer as we celebrate his grandfather’s 90th!
With a month packed full of events and friends, our “break” in August wasn’t the meditative state we hoped for, but the goal remains!
A big cash back win carried us through July as we adventured through “Waterland” and toured Copenhagen!
Time to recover from our May wedding? Maybe at some point!—instead, we were off to Montana for a little Glacier adventure in June!
Friends, family—our community—all showed up to celebrate and wish us well as we begin our married life, together. The wedding we planned, and wanted!