I wrote my Pillars of Single FI article so that I could go through the iterations on three different levels of Financial Independence (FI). Reason being is that there is a level of uncertainty as to whether I will remain single in the future or not. I have three FI numbers: Single FI – enough …
I was swimming laps today and it dawned on me that the pull buoy I use (for soloing out the upper body), has been with me since 1984. I bought it when I was at the peak of my competitive swimming “career”. It’s just as good as the day I first started using it. As …
When I wrote my last article about being a single person on this journey, I focused a bit more on hedging off loneliness and received a lot of good feedback from the community. My friend, Military Dollar, sent me some questions that singles are faced with when calculating their Financial Independence (FI) numbers. Miltary Dollar pointed …
At the time I am writing this post, I am a single 45-year-old woman. While I’d love for the single part to be different, I’m learning to embrace it. However, sometimes it’s hard and here’s the post where I broach this topic. I opened this topic up to the Twitter community and received some really …
At first, I was going to make this post a digest solely about the highlights of my trip to Nashville where I shared my testimony on the Dave Ramsey show. I will get to that, but I want to start out with the ripple effects of sharing the unembellished truth of my story to millions …
I moved May 1st, 2018 into a little one bedroom apartment that is within walking distance of my job. I thought it’d be fun to do a post of how I furnished my pad on the cheap. In case you didn’t read my first post, my living arrangements have been rather creative over the last …
I am probably normal compared to most people but an outlier in the Financial Independent (FI) community. I still have Verizon for my cellular phone service and while they provide excellent network coverage, they are expensive. Through the ChooseFI community, I’ve learned there a lot of other great cellular service providers who charge a fraction …
I am a woman with an older car. These two facts can make me vulnerable to paying too much for my automotive repairs. I don’t like being vulnerable in that sense so I did something about it. The point of this article is to share how I have made myself less vulnerable as well as some …
Let’s talk about debt. I personally found debt to be a shackle. I was a slave to the lender and most of my income was going out to pay other people back for things I already experienced or purchased. That is not a fun way to live. If you want to build wealth or even …
I actually consider getting over addiction and out of debt, pits that I dug myself out of; however, climbing mountains was a catchier name so we’ll stick with that metaphor. Which was harder to overcome – debt or addiction? Justin from Root of Good gave me the great idea for this post by asking me …