Hi hi, I cannot believe that 2 years after graduating from college, we’ve finally reached the $100,000 net worth milestone (combined)!!! This week is actually the anniversary of our college graduation; we were the first batch of pandemic graduates of Spring 2020, so we didn’t actually get a graduation 🙁 Nevertheless, this is a post…
Budget Recap | March & April 2022
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…