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For your binge-reading pleasure, here’s a list of all my posts from most to least recent. Enjoy!
- June 2020: wedding stuff begins
- May 2020: this is vaguely a Q2 goals update
- April 2020: settling(?) into pandemic life
- Thankful: 2020 edition
- We’re buying a house and we’re leaving DC
- We need to talk about FinCon
- 20 for 2020: Q1 update
- March 2020: quarantine month 1
- Love Life in the time of cholera COVID
- February 2020: the one where everything happens
- January 2020: side hustling. And groceries
- 20 for 2020
- 2019 year in review
- 19 for 2019: Q4 update
- December 2019: holidays here, there, and everywhere
- November 2019: saved by the “shit happens” fund
- They say the first is the hardest…
- 19 for 2019: Q3 update
- October 2019: let’s call this the pink lady month
- September 2019: FinCon, etc
- August 2019: the moving continues
- July 2019: vacation. And moving
- New apartment, new… me?
- 19 for 2019: Q2 update
- June 2019: lots of hiking and a flat tire
- I’m moving!
- May 2019: I went shopping. And that’s okay
- April 2019: big job changes (but no new jobs)
- 19 for 2019: Q1 update
- Amsterdam, Paris, and Brussels, oh my!
- March 2019: holy income, Batman!
- Celebrating two years of blogging
- February 2019: “oh shit, I need a new roommate” edition
- 19 for 2019
- January 2019: setting the bar high
- The year in money goals: 2018
- Everything I spent in 2018
- Twelve months of experiments: December 2018
- December 2018: holiday spending/travel edition
- 2018 year in review
- Save money on travel by…being in a relationship?
- November 2018: no-spend month and giving my retirement funds all my money
- Twelve months of experiments: it’s the end of the year already?!
- Everything I spent on FI community events this year / Happy Thanksgiving!
- October 2018: it’s time for a no-spend month
- Adventures in (kinda, sorta) travel hacking
- What’s Up Next? Podcast appearance
- Family and suboptimal decisions (and lots of traffic)
- September 2018: I was NOT expecting this
- Personal finance for people with moderate incomes? Meet the Middletons
- Breaking my clothes shopping ban two months early
- A first-timer at FinCon18
- Adventures in decluttering, round one
- August 2018: I hiked; I fell and got a permanent scar
- I went to money nerd camp, summer/Midwest edition
- Decluttering more than things
- Glacier National Park: close encounters of the bear and fire kind
- The elephant (snake?) in the room: fear, guilt, and excitement
- July 2018: my biggest impulse purchase ever (and a $150 hiking weekend)
- FIRE Drill Podcast appearance
- Twelve months of experiments: June and July 2018
- An experiment in being on vacation
- June 2018: thank goodness I’ve finally reached that minimum spend!
- A weekend in NYC
- Chocolate zucchini cake
- Tiny houses and letting dreams evolve
- A quick note because I’m not sure what else to write
- An update on my unofficial clothes shopping ban
- Twelve months of experiments: May 2018
- May 2018: FinCon ticket and a format change
- Late May peregrinations
- Learning to stop and smell the roses
- April 2018: yikes
- How to save money on car insurance: terrifying decision edition
- My completely unsexy debt payoff story
- Twelve months of experiments: April 2018
- Revisiting trade-offs and consciously consuming time
- In defense of kid lit and rereading
- I went to money nerd camp (aka CampFI Mid-Atlantic)
- The power of small (literal) steps
- March 2018: this feels like cheating
- A Maximalist’s Guide to Minimalist Packing (guest post at Tiny Ambitions)
- Twelve months of experiments: March 2018
- Celebrating one year of blogging
- Spring snow day: a photo essay
- Pantry staple price comparison: ALDI edition
- Turkish red lentil soup
- Doing hard things, part 3: the plot thickens
- No one else cares about your money: a #WomenRockMoney post
- February 2018: birthday month edition
- Coming to terms with a year’s worth of spending
- Looking ahead to debt-free life
- Life update: job, taxes, and debt (payoff)
- Financial lessons from Les Misérables
- It’s time to Rumble!
- January 2018: uber frugal month?
- Doing hard things, part 2: waiting
- Twelve months of experiments: January 2018
- Doing hard things, part 1: nothing horrible has happened (yet)
- The unconventional (but critical) part of my FI pursuit
- On female voices and representation in the financial independence community
- The day I broke my frugal month challenge
- Mid-month update: January 2018
- How the library is helping me reach financial independence (guest post on Millennial Money Man)
- December 2017: I kicked ass
- How I’m starting off the year
- 2017 year in review
- Five things I don’t regret spending money on
- What I’ve been eating lately: healthy-ish holidays edition
- Holiday traditions, old and new
- Failing upward and looking towards 2018
- November 2017: raking in the cash, spending all the cash
- What are your trade-offs?
- What I learned from my meditation experiment
- Thankful
- The secret life of a FIRE blogger
- The intersection of money and mental health
- Of lemons and rice: a price comparison of pantry staples
- October 2017: the calm before November’s spending storm
- I’m doing an experiment in November
- Some of the things I’ve bought over the years
- I got a part-time job. Yay! Yay?
- So I went to Portland
- Everything you never wanted to know about my shoes
- The single person’s guide to a Costco membership
- September 2017: hiking, meetups, and a few surprises
- A contemplation of the preciousness of time
- Accidental past frugality
- Getting away from a “someday” mentality
- Qapital review: customizable automated savings
- Acorns review: spare change as investment strategy
- How the hell do I get started?
- August 2017: Fitbits and roadtrips
- Tip Yourself review
- To direct rollover or not to direct rollover: that is the question
- Money does not exist in a vacuum
- The latte factor and my daily walk to Starbucks
- On not saving money by moving
- How traffic jams are related to hedonic adaptation
- July 2017: car windows and Craigslist
- What I’ve been eating lately
- June 2017: a net positive month!
- A $500 lesson in adulting and the importance of savings
- Lessons in gratitude learned while my sister was sleeping on my futon
- It’s annual salary increase time so let’s talk money
- How I got a credit card sign-up bonus without bankrupting myself
- May 2017: the Azores and a wedding
- How to save money on car insurance
- Azores trip
- An unexpected windfall
- April 2017: my first spending report
- Two tales of health insurance
- Wins this week
- Progress, not perfection
- When the best deal isn’t the right one
- Digit review: effortless savings with an unfortunate new change
- Financial independence and my future freedom
- My not-so-comfortable life?
- DC property tax credit: Schedule H
- Intro