After bucking the odds for years, we finally missed a flight! Fortunately, some quick thinking avoided thousands in expenses. Read our monthly FIRE update.
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!
Over the course of spending multiple weeks ill in February, we began booking our spring travel and sorted out our health and dental insurance changes.
Learn how a quick decision on Chris’s part managed to cut his dentist bill from about $3,600 to under $2,000! Read our January 2023 FIRE budget update.
…AND $200 of liquor?! It’s all part of our Portugal to USA travel adventure for $60/night! See how we did it along with the rest of our monthly FIRE budget!
Our annual spending review details how we lived an adventure-filled life in 2021 on about $51K/year as two 37-year-olds. Steal our tricks to reach FIRE!
See what Chris’s adventures throughout the Pacific Northwest did to our November FIRE budget just before we set off (and set sail) across the Atlantic!
Here’s how we experienced The Day of the Dead in Puerto Vallarta on less than $70/day yet still had an endless supply of fun and luxury!
Even while Chris escaped to southern Europe (and for barely over $100/day!), we upgraded most of our iGadgets and turned a profit in the process! Read how.
Hoping for smooth sailing to recover after a 4.2% drop in the market while actually learning to sail! Plus, our poll on cancer charities.
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Beat the Summer Heat! (Jul. 2022 Update)
We recovered >$100K in our investments while taking in the beach but missed our FIRE goal. Plus: we donate to disaster relief charities!