Blazing a Trail Towards Financial Independence
July wasn’t messing around. It was a month of changes in a number of areas. Let’s just call it financially dynamic. Join me as I unpack the happenings from the month that was and come see how the Heartland on FIRE household fared in July.
[Read more…] about Progress Update 8: A Blind Squirrel Finds a Nut and Changes Abound
Welp, it seems like Spring lasted about 2 days. In last month’s post Spring was just arriving, now we’ve gone straight to Summer in no time flat. It’s time for the monthly net worth update. Did our net worth number grow as fast in May as Spring changed to Summer?
[Read more…] about Progress Update 6: 529 Shuffling and Crazy Tenants
Hello May! Happy to see you. Spring has FINALLY Sprung! With the beginning of the growing season upon us has our net worth began to grow again? After a couple down months let’s take a look:
[Read more…] about Progress Update 5: The Green is Back, HSAs & Dying Trees
So, it’s April now. Just like that a quarter of the year gone. Dayum! It is still freezing cold here with snows still expected, so it sure doesn’t feel like April. If this weather won’t change soon, I’ll be mowing the grass in the snow. But enough about the weather… Let’s review the interesting month of March that was.
[Read more…] about Progress Update 4: Backsliding, Caveats & Crazy Graphs
The big news around the Heartland on FIRE household this week is we’ve taken the plunge and decided to move all of our investment funds from Edward Jones over to Vanguard.
Well its been roughly a month since this here blog said hello to the world. I’ve promised to provide updates on our journey to FI along the way. You can always check the latest and greatest info on the Track Our Progress page Anyways, without further adieu, here is how we did in December: [Read more…] about Progress Update 1