How we improved our food budget by $3,300 a year
One of our spending categories that we’ve had the toughest time mastering is our food budget. Neither of us loves to cook and convenience of...
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15 episodesBefore You Retire: Powerful Lessons from Mini-retirement
I can’t believe that we’re already six months into our one-year mini-retirement ! It feels like just yesterday that I was packing up my belo...
Stop Depriving Yourself and Get What You Really Want
From the outside-in, frugality and minimalism often look like acts of self-deprivation. After all, eating out is easier and tastes better th...
What a Pizza Cutter Taught Me About Frugality and Minimalism
Earlier this year, we experienced a culinary tragedy - our pizza cutter broke . Our initial reaction was to go out and buy a replacement, bu...
Should You Trust the Machines With Your Money?
The personal finance world has been abuzz with talk of automation . It started with automated bill-pay and has grown into automated savings,...
A Marriage Lesson from a Mini-Retirement
Ok, so my husband, Chris, has officially been on his One Year Mini-Retirement since July first. And as of September second, he started worki...
Patience is the Ultimate Passive Income
Patience is a virtue, but it’s more than that. It’s an incredible source of passive income. OK, maybe not income in the traditional sense, b...
Our Mini-Retirement Budget
Before our mini-retirement , we were focused on building our finances. We were prepaying our mortgage, saving for vacations, contributing to...
Beware the Frivolous Purchase Threshold
Do you ever get to the end of the month and wonder where all your money went? There’s a negative force at work against your journey to finan...
The Most Powerful Factor for Creating a Mini-Retirement
There’s one phrase we’ve heard over and over again since revealing our mini-retirement : “I mean, if you can make that work , it sounds amaz...
Shred Your Debt with a Snowball or an Avalanche
If you’ve got a mountain of debt, there are two awesome ways to shred it - the Debt Snowball and the Debt Avalanche . Read on to learn how t...
I Used To Suck At Money Management
Today’s article is a special one folks - you’re getting an awesome article from the one and only Mrs. Keep Thrifty - better known as my wife...
Trading Financial Freedom for Mini-Retirement
Who doesn’t want financial freedom? Getting to the point that your passive income can cover your expenses buys you opportunities and time in...
Bring Back Your Childhood Dreams
Some people have great clarity of what’s on their bucket list - the things they want to accomplish with their life. But others struggle, not...
If You're Not a Paying Customer, You're Probably the Product
UPDATE (Decemeber 11, 2017): After trying out Patreon for 3 months, we weren’t able to get the traction we had been hoping for. We’re still...