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Planning To Have Kids? Don’t Buy That Minivan Just Yet

September 9, 2013 by Justin Weinger

  During the phase of my life where I was wooing my wife to marry me, several of my friends were already in the family-building phase. When your first child comes along there’s an incredible sense of excitement, anticipation, and discovery. I saw it in their lives firsthand, and now that I have a couple […]

Filed Under: Decisions Tagged With: enough, house, lifestyle, mortgage, story

Imagine The Freedom Of Owning A House With No Mortgage

September 3, 2013 by Justin Weinger

  If you hang out at this site for any length of time, you’ll find that I write quite a bit about housing, mortgages, and lifestyles. I believe that we can very easily set ourselves up for financial failure simply by setting unrealistic expectations, and then using debt to fund those expectations. Mortgages, for most […]

Filed Under: Decisions, Stories Tagged With: earlypaymentcalc, house, mortgage, story

Smaller House, Larger Life!

August 25, 2013 by Justin Weinger

  In the summer of 2010 I finally came to my senses. My first child was a year old. My wife, daughter and I lived in a good-sized suburban home in a nice neighborhood, about 15 minutes from downtown where my office is (even in rush hour traffic). Our house was fairly “nice” since we’d […]

Filed Under: Journey Progress, Stories Tagged With: financial independence, house, journey, mortgage, personal, story

Build A Better Budget Part 2 – Creating Categories

August 14, 2013 by Justin Weinger

This is the second post in a series about how to build a better budget. You can check out the other posts here: Build A Better Budget Part 1 – The Mindset Build A Better Budget Part 2 – Creating Categories Build A Better Budget Part 3 – Tracking Methods Build A Better Budget Part […]

Filed Under: Build A Better Budget, The Basics Tagged With: budget, debt, financial independence, mortgage

July In Review – Income/Expense and Net Worth

August 6, 2013 by Justin Weinger

  I know it’s a few days late but here’s a quick review of our July numbers, as they relate to our FI Journey. July’s income was great! My company paid out quarterly profit-sharing bonuses which were fairly large for us, so that really helped us attack the mortgage this month (see below). July’s expenses […]

Filed Under: Journey Progress Tagged With: budget, financial independence, mortgage, net worth

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