This post may contain affiliate links. Please view my disclosure policy for more information. Happy fall, everyone! While my Instagram feed is full of copper hues, fall decor and pumpkin spice everything, I’m still sweating in the 80-degree heat of the East Tennessee valley. I usually get a little sad when summer ends, but this year I’m …
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 …
As the long-awaited meeting came to a close, I watched my coworkers exchange enthusiastic glances. In response to high turnover rates, my employer finally listened to its employees and granted five more vacation days, rewards for good attendance, a company-wide pay increase and a better 401(k) plan, in addition to continuing to provide free health …
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 …
