After last month’s move and subsequent spending free-for-all, October was a bit more under control from a life perspective. We’ve settled into apartment living about as much as can be expected after almost a year and a half on the lam. Have our finances settled down after September’s whirlwind? Read…

Another month in the books, and it was a doozy. This may go down as the worst financial month in FIby35 history: a deadly combination of unprecedented spending and poor market performance. I teased in last month’s post that September would be a spending explosion and it did not disappoint.…

Here we are, nearly in October, and I still haven’t posted our August financial update. Forgive me, we’ve been a little busy. Since our last monthly status report, I began full-time work again, we drove from Wisconsin down to Florida, moved into an apartment, and continue to accumulate more items…

July came and went in a blur of sunshine and fireworks. This was the first calendar month we spent entirely within the contiguous United States since July of last year! Even then, it still felt like we were traveling as we bounced between families in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The more…

Happy Independence Day! Hard to believe it’s already July but I guess time flies when you’re traversing the globe. June brought an end to our sampler platter of Northeast-ish Asia, having visited Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. Upon returning stateside we spent a few days in Minnesota and the…