Surprise! It’s been exactly six years since I started my journey to financial independence and started writing this blog (though I only took it public July 2018). Today I want to celebrate by reflecting on anything new I’ve learned in the last year since my 5 year anniversary post. Continue reading “Lessons Learned After 6 Years Of Blog Writing”
What a year! It definitely wasn’t what I expected, but if I’m grasping for a silver lining: the amount I spent would be one of them. I barely left my house for most of the year, which obviously kept costs down 😉 . However, instead of clawing at the walls, I learned new ways to have fun and be social without stepping out of my front door (which I admit I enjoyed probably more than I should have…#HardcoreIntrovert) Continue reading “How I Lived On $15,886 In 2020”
Y’all have spoken! Last week, I checked in to make sure these weekly updates are still something you’re interested in and got a resounding yes, so the weekly updates will continue for another 2 weeks after this one. This is weekly update 10/12 before I switch to monthly updates!
Hey y’all! This is Weekly Update 9/12 based on the schedule I gave out a few months ago so I wanted to check in and see if you’re still enjoying these. My Week 8 update last week was the first post since I took this blog public that didn’t receive any comments the day I posted it (and I live for comments 😉 ) so let me know if you’re tired of these updates or this format or what and we can switch it up. If these have gone on too long this can be the last weekly update – I don’t want to bore y’all 🙂 . In the meantime, let’s get into it!
Continue reading “Early Retirement Week 9: Should This Be The Last Weekly Update?”
This week was tough for reasons I totally created myself 🙂 . That’s the fun thing about retirement – if a week is hard and you chose to do all the things that leave you tired, you have no one to blame but yourself…and luckily I’m fine with that 😉 .
Continue reading “Early Retirement Week 8: The Challenge”
Welcome to PurpleMas! I’ve got a special treat for y’all. After the success of my NaNoWriMo writing challenge: I’m going to publish 2 posts a week during the month of December! So get ready for a lot more Purple in your life every Tuesday and Thursday 🙂 . Continue reading “Early Retirement Week 7: The Train”
Welcome to Week 6 of my early retirement journey! If you want to catch up with previous weeks, they’re here. It’s starting to settle in that this might be my actual life instead of a strange extra-long vacation 🙂 . Let’s get into it!
Last week we tackled reader questions about my first month of early retirement and this week, we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming of seeing what I am up to each week of retirement. Did I insert that AMA post so I’d have more time to craft these posts after the week is done? Maybe 😉 . Continue reading “Early Retirement Week 5: The Election”