Hi hi! As we are starting May, I think that our March and April money recap is a bit overdue 🙂 In summary, the GF and I save/invest $9,456.04 for March and April 2022. This is about 55% of our combined income. This breaks down to about 35% in savings and 20% in investments. The…
Q1 2022: Portfolios Update!
Hi there! We’ve created this blog to document our FIRE journey, and investing is a major part of how we’ll be able to get there. So, I figured that it’d be good to show the GF’s and my investment portfolios. Given that Q1 2022 just finished, it’s a good time to start doing the portfolios…
Budget Recap | February 2022
Hello hello! Now that we’re more than halfway through March, it’s time for us to go through our February money recap. In summary, the GF and I save/invest $5,996.58 for February 2022. This is about 71% of our combined income. This breaks down to about 6% in savings and 65% in investments. As always, the…
401k: Why I Stopped
That’s right, I no longer contribute to my four-oh-wunk (401k)….Am I crazy? Is this a mistake? Read on to see why I did what I did, and honestly let me know if you agree/disagree with me 🙂 If you are unsure about what a 401k is, I’ve talked about it in a previous post, so…
Crash Course on Investment Accounts
After you get your first full-time job, you get hit with a benefits package, and you look through them and wonder what is a four-oh-wunk? After learning what that finally is, then you get hit with the ROTH? What is an IRA? Was this something we should’ve learned in college? We certainly did not know…
Budget Recap | January 2022
One of our goals for 2022 is to stay on top of our spending, and to do that, we thought that it would be helpful for us to start sharing our monthly spending recap. This will help us see where our money is going each month and we also want to provide insight into what…
7 Types of Investment
There are lots of ways that you can invest in to grow your money, and it could be really intimidating when you are starting out. We will go over some of the most popular types of investments that you can invest in: Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds, Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF), Certificates of Deposit (CDs), Real Estate,…