Rethink the Rat Race

A couple of weeks ago I began preparing a presentation I was going to give at our second ChooseFI Alabama meetup. I took to the group and crowd-sourced what my topic was going to be. After a number of choices were thrown out, frugality is what most people had voted for. Perfect, one of the… Continue reading How Frugality Saved us $644k

If anyone has ever traveled with me, they know that I tend to overpack…like full-sized luggage bulging at the seams for a weekend trip overpacking. Just look at my article about Unintentional Minimalism, and you can probably get a good idea about how I’d pack based on how hard it is for me to get… Continue reading How to Survive Two Weeks Abroad with Only a Carry-On

Close your eyes and imagine you have more than enough money to meet all your needs. The paid-off house you live in has a fridge and pantry full of food, you have a reliable car with a full tank of gas, and you have two trips abroad planned and paid for. You are easily in… Continue reading How to Win the Lottery

To get that brain matter flowing and get you thinking about your answer throughout the article, we’re going to start this off by asking you a question. How much do you spend a week on food, namely groceries? The big three monthly expenses everyone has are: housing; transportation; and food. Well, we’ve covered housing with: The… Continue reading Our $160 Monthly Food Bill

One of the most common questions we get as landlords is: “How do you get good tenants?” And that is a very good question. One of the biggest concerns as a property owner is how will someone else treat my property. The unfortunate thing is that you won’t truly know if they are a quality… Continue reading How to Get Good Tenants

We are very excited to reveal that one of us got an EU citizenship last week. Spoiler Alert: it wasn’t me. Mrs. RRR had a much easier path to get an EU citizenship than most Americans would. We have flirted with the idea of perpetual travel once we hit financial independence and using her grandparent’s… Continue reading Benefits of an EU Citizenship

How many times have you wished the day, week, or month away? How often do you find yourself so focused on the end goal that you forget to let yourself take everything in? I’m guilty of doing exactly this. Everything from back in my school days (Hello, senoritis!), to my not-so-distant FIRE goals. I still… Continue reading Don’t Wish Your Life Away