Our Journey

How We Spent $30,135.43 in 2020

Pie Chart of 2020 Expenses

Often, the perception of what you spend and what you actually spend can be two different things. The purpose of this post is to realign these perceptions to reality. In 2020, we somehow spent dramatically less than we did last year. I’ll comment on this further at the end of the article. For now, I’ll …

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December 2020 Update: 57% To Financial Independence

I’m a little late for this December update, but who’s keeping track besides myself. During my last update, I reduced the frequency of these reports from monthly to biannual to free up more time for my other projects. Well, I’m making another adjustment and decided to only write this update once a year. This is …

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June 2019 Update: 26% to Financial Independence

I started this series to reflect on our goals and share some things I learned each month. For now, I’ll primarily be tracking our progress to financial independence. I hope you get some value from this and if you haven’t already, join the Flexcents community as it continues to grow! Our Progress to Financial Independence …

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March 2019 Update: 24% to FI, Recurring Costs Cut By $27

I started this series to reflect on our goals, summarize blog developments and share some things I learned this month. I hope you get some value and enjoy following our journey. If you haven’t already, join the Flexcents community as it continues to grow! Financial Goals We discovered the financial independence retire early (FIRE) movement …

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December 2018 Reflections: A Year In Review

Instead of reflecting on this past month alone, I want to change it up and briefly reflect upon this past year as a whole. 2018 – Our Year of Growth It all started with discovering the concept of financial independence and learning that we could achieve wealth that we never thought was possible, but only …

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