Blazing a Trail Towards Financial Independence
Well hello again! I hope you all got your fill of shamrocks and corned beef last month. With a lot of things moving and shaking, were our finances in March as green as the beer we were drinking? Also, I hold my nose and take a look at last year’s spending.
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Every winter, I always go in excited for the first “real” snowfall of the year. It’s new, it’s different, it carries with it a bit of excitement… and it’s almost immediately enough to get me wishing for spring and warmer weather. That was February this year. Bitter cold temperatures rivaling any seen in the past 30 years and lingering snowfall canceled classes harkening back to March 2020. And we were the fortunate ones. But even while the world was freezing around us we tried to heat up our journey towards FI.
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The saga that is 2020 has reached the mid-point. In a year where nothing is what we thought it would be at the start of the year, we take a look back to autopsy the first half. So let’s crack this corpse open and see what’s inside.
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Wow. Where to begin? March felt more like a year in and of itself. If it was a roller coaster, we’d have thrown up and been begging to get off… and that was only after the first couple weeks. Truly, the world will be a different place after this month. Putting aside the global pandemic, open ended quarantines, the unprecedented cessation of the economy, and burgeoning unemployment rate, how did our finances do in March?
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February had a wild finish. Lot’s of moving pieces and, of course, the market dropped like a rock. How are we handling the market correction?
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Confused about what constitutes good nutrition? Yeah, me too. My wife and I have been interested in eating healthier and have been reading articles and watching documentaries. In our search to find a consensus, we found there isn’t one. In fact, the more we looked into it, the more questions we had. So I wanted to summarize what we’ve learned and how we’ve tried to piece together a diet.
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