Twenty-three hundred times. A low estimate of the number of times I have driven the exact same route to work as of today. It’s a beautiful, scenic drive. At 7:30 AM, the fifteen minute drive from Kingston to Lenoir City on I-40 East allows you to see the sleepy awakening of the east Tennessee valley …
After years of wishing I loved my job, how I’ve come to realize I’m actually glad that I don’t.
This post may contain affiliate links. Please view my disclosure policy for more information. Welcome to my monthly net worth report! Since July 2017 I have logged into Personal Capital around the 15th of each month to update our net worth. I really look forward to this time of the month so that I can see how …
This post may contain affiliate links. Please view my disclosure policy for more information. Two years ago today, I published my very first blog post titled We are Paying Off Our Mortgage in Two Years. This is How. This bluntly titled post is pretty cringe-worthy for me to look back on. It holds no introductions and no …
This post may contain affiliate links. Please view my disclosure policy for more information. I hope you guys aren’t getting tired of me starting almost every blog post by saying how excited I am, but if you are, I’ll get it out of the way fast. I’m so excited! This report closes out exactly seven months of …
This post may contain affiliate links. Please view my disclosure policy for more information. I am so excited to share this net worth report with you! I’ve had my eye on a certain milestone since I first began tracking our net worth in July 2017, and I was so excited when I logged onto Personal Capital, the …
This post may contain affiliate links. Please view my disclosure policy for more information. You guys have been asking for it, and I’m finally providing it – a free zero-based budget template. It is based on the budget that I designed for my husband and myself after we got married (view it here), but I tweaked it in …
This post may contain affiliate links. Please view my disclosure policy for more information. Maybe it was because I was suffering from the post-vacation blues for the first couple weeks of this month, but July seemed to stretch on forever. Or perhaps it was because I turned 30, an age that always sounded so old to me. …
This post may contain affiliate links. Please view my disclosure policy for more information. It’s been six months to the day since we became 100% debt free! To celebrate, I wanted to share ten of the most influential books I read during our 17-month journey of paying off our mortgage. I recommend these books to anyone starting …
This post is copied from the journal I kept while traveling in Russia with the intention of being able to look back at it years later and be able to remember small, long-since forgotten memories of my first international trip and dream come true. It is raw and unedited with the exception of changing my …
