Popular Articles
2020
- How We Are Handling Virtual Learning During Covid
- The Missing Year
2019
- What Are You Optimizing For?
- How We Vacationed With Extended Family
- The Awesomely Big Features of our Little White Shack
- 5 Lessons From Our Buy Nothing New Challenge
- Why You Should Totally Spend on Wants
- Our 2019 Spending Plan
- 3 Tips for Making Your Freedom Dream a Reality
- 3 Ways to Live with Intention
- 3 Steps to Help You Get Financially Unstuck
2018
- What To Teach Kids About Money: Earning
- Don't Get Burned by FIRE
- Feeling At Home In Costa Rica
- Earn Like a Boss, Spend Like an Intern
- Want to Retire Early? Beat Inflation With a One-Two Punch
- Refreshing Our Budget: Hygiene
- Will I Ever Be Able to Retire?
- Refreshing Our Budget: Food
- Why I Choose to Spend Money on Recycling
- My Mini-Retirement: A Financial Failure, A Personal Success
- Where My Mini-Retirement Mental Breakdown Led Me
- Finding Faith When the Money Is Fading Away
- How We Took a Mini-Retirement for Free (Kind Of)
- Why We Fell In Love with Nosara, Costa Rica
- Reader Case Study: Use Inheritance to Buy a House?
- The Undersold Benefits of a 9-to-5 Job
- Bikes and Automobiles - June 2018 Finances
- Book Review: The Year of Less
- We Just "Wasted" $2,400 on Travel and Couldn't Be Happier
- Florida Road Trip Photo Update
- Swimming Lessons and Sponsorships - May 2018 Income, Savings, and Spending Report
- Can You Mix Friendship & Finances?
- The One Category That High-Income People Spend Less On
- What New Graduates Should Know About Money
- Pursuing (My) Our Independent Life
- Birthdays and Calculators - April 2018 Income, Savings, and Spending Report
- Debt Freedom is Great, but Payment Freedom is Better
- We're Doing One More Year... of Mini-Retirement
- Freecycle: A Great Resource for Minimalists and Frugalists
- It's Time To Get Uncomfortable
- Passports and More - March 2018 Spending
- A Year of Sleeping on the Floor
- Growing Up: Life Insurance Done Right
- When You Want To Move, But You’re Scared
- The End of Our Floor Sleeping Experiment? - February 2018 Spending
- Save Even More By Cutting The Other Cord - Your Antenna
- Visiting Our 47th State - January 2018 Spending
- What I Discovered in Hawaii: Aloha Minimalism
- 2017 Reflections, 2018 Goals
- 5 reasons you need to track your spending
- How we improved our food budget by $3,300 a year
- Before You Retire: Powerful Lessons from Mini-retirement
2017
- Stop Depriving Yourself and Get What You Really Want
- What a Pizza Cutter Taught Me About Frugality and Minimalism
- Should You Trust the Machines With Your Money?
- A Marriage Lesson from a Mini-Retirement
- Patience is the Ultimate Passive Income
- Thrifty Gift Giving
- Our Mini-Retirement Budget
- Thrifty School Days Off
- I'm a Survivor
- Beware the Frivolous Purchase Threshold
- Look What I Made Him Do
- The Most Powerful Factor for Creating a Mini-Retirement
- Our Thrifty Life - Video Series Launch
- Shred Your Debt with a Snowball or an Avalanche
- The Saturday Stash: Volume 4
- I Used To Suck At Money Management
- The Saturday Stash: Volume 3
- The Saturday Stash: Volume 2
- Trading Financial Freedom for Mini-Retirement
- The Saturday Stash: Volume 1
- Bring Back Your Childhood Dreams
- If You're Not a Paying Customer, You're Probably the Product
- The Ultimate Guide to an Epic Frugal Road Trip
- Take Back Your Sanity By Switching From Push to Pull
- Breaking Our Addiction to Home Updates
- The Parable of the Craftsmen
- Is the 4% Safe Withdrawal Rate Still Relevant?
- The Power of a Partner in Chasing Your Dreams
- A One Year Mini-Retirement
- Minimalist Moving - Benefits and Strategies
- Can Frugality Be Selfish?
- Our Not-So-Thrifty Past
- Rent vs Buy for the FI
- Guest Post: Why I Don’t Care If You Think My Major Is a Waste of Money
- Big Barriers to Living Smaller
- Kids Allowances - Advice from the Experts
- Grown-Up Lessons from a Lemonade Stand
- Three Phases of Money Feelings
- Living In Half of Our House
- Guest Post: Dealing with Unsolicited Advice
- Fact Check: The Home Mortgage Interest Deduction
- Learning to Spend Without Fear
- Guest Post: A Hot Cheeto Called Harambe
- My Favorite Personal Finance Resources
- How Much is Your Stuff Costing You?
- Introducing Retirement Freedom
- Ignorance Might Be Better
- Surviving the Suburbs with One Car
- Four Devious Marketing Tactics (and How to Defeat Them)
2016
- Guest Post: 4 Financial No-Noes From Your Grandparents
- The Ultimate Refinancing Spreadsheet Calculator
- Before You Start, Set Your Financial Compass
- Money and Life Lessons from The Oregon Trail
- Guest Post: An Odd Couple - The Surprising Truth About Frugality and Procrastination
- Talent is Overrated
- How to Become Twice as Happy with Half as Much
- Guide: Create a Spreadsheet Dashboard for the Price of a Day of Retirement
- Would You Trade $25 for an Extra Day of Freedom?
- Book Review: The More of Less by Joshua Becker
- Indecent (Financial) Exposure: Every Penny We Spent in the Last 12 Months
- 15 Lessons from my First Seven Jobs
- Dominate your Debt with Spreadsheet Fu
- Guest Post: Have You Been Spending All Your Money on Something Free?
- Experience is Better Than Stuff - Except When It's Not
- Book Review: The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins
- When to Prepay Your Mortgage Instead of Investing
- 7 Quotes to Help Keep the Course
- How Much Car Can You Afford?
- How we saved $160,000 on our mortgage
- Mortgage Math 101
- After 7 years of marriage, my wife sold her engagement ring
- How kicking my soda habit is fueling my retirement
- How to Trick Yourself into Paying Off Your 30-year Mortgage in 12.4 years and Saving $68,000
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