Category: <span>Debt</span>

Announcing: Two New Resources For Better Work-Life Balance

Greetings from our homestead! In the near decade since this blog was born, I’ve worked diligently to achieve better balance between work and so many other passions. Now, I have two ways to share some of my acquired skills and knowledge with everyone.   As a New Years’ gift, I …

Reflections On “The Road-Less-Traveled” Challenge, Seven Years Later

Back in 2016, we had just started on our journey to destroy our debt, while mapping out a plan to achieve financial semi-independence.  A lot has changed since then, including the addition of twins and moving to a forever homestead.  Have our goals or strategies changed too?  What can we …

My New, Super-Easy Side Hustle, That Really Pays!

It’s been a while since I’ve posted about side hustles on this site, but we’re still always looking for ways to earn extra money.  Frugal living only goes so far towards our dream of financial semi-independence.  The other essential part of our plan is finding many different streams of income, …

Spring Update From Our Kaleidoscope Homestead

Greetings from Our Kaleidoscope Homestead.  While it has been a eventful winter that kept us busy, we’ve been anxiously awaiting the next season at our new home.  Here is your update on what’s been happening and what’s to come, as we build our financially semi-independent, family homestead. Our Home Older …

Monday Medley: Updates, Holidays, and Kaleidoscope Homestead Progress

Time for an update on our progress in Creating Our Kaleidoscope of a life: even though our family is mostly settled into the new home, there is still more work to be done towards our next goal of financial semi-independence.     The Holidays We just hosted Thanksgiving for our …

Maintaining Momentum After Achieving Big Goals

It can be tempting at times, to focus on your accomplishments, and decide that you’ve done enough.  We have been working so hard for the past decade.  After paying off our debt and moving to the forever homestead, it’s been difficult to resist the lure of celebration, relaxing, and letting …

The Journey To Our Forever Homestead

Finally closing on our forever homestead felt like so much more than just buying a house, because it represented an arrival at the destination we had been dreaming of through a long journey.  From paying off debt and being surprised by twins, to surviving a pandemic, this milestone has been …

The New Spectrum of FIRE Categories

Learning about the FIRE movement was one of the driving factors behind our family’s decision to pursue new goals and take drastic measures to improve our finances.   It’s also one of the foundations of this blog.  If you’re not familiar, FIRE is Financial Independence, Retire Early.  And there is now …

Our Somewhat Frugal Christmas

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year from our family to yours!  This “season of giving” always seems to highlight the struggle between being true to your finances versus indulging and spreading joy to others.  A generous Christmas could easily negate significant financial progress made through the year.  Our …

2021 Update & A Reintroduction

How it started?  Frustration.  It was over six years ago when I started this blog as an outlet, a way to brainstorm, and for some accountability.  My days were mostly spent commuting and sitting in an office; unmotivated, depressed, and missing my family.  We were in so much debt that …