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…
Jobs: Should I Take a Job Offer for the Same Pay?
I recently received a job offer for the same salary as I am currently making. Should I still take it? I have been applying for jobs and interviewing since last summer (2021). I have received a couple of offers here and there, but the offers generally have been low or at the same salary as…
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…
Is it Possible for Gen Z to Buy a House in 2022?
One of our adulting goals is to be able to purchase a single-family rental property in our 20s to give us exposure to the real estate market and also to generate some passive-active income on the side. I did not have a specific type of real estate business model in mind, whether that be house-hacking,…
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…