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Want Adventure AND Security? Just Change Your Timeline

By Tanja Hester on January 23, 2017 • ( 127 Comments )

I never took a break between high school and college, or between college and starting my career. And so for years, I thought I’d missed my chance to do something awesome, as though that’s something only young 20-somethings can do. But seeing people in our mountain town piecing together lives of adventure in all different ways made us realize: we haven’t missed out on anything. In fact, we’re probably doing this the better way, because our life of adventure will be built on solid financial footing.

How Do You Define Financial Independence? // + a Very Full Bucket

By Tanja Hester on February 12, 2016 • ( 98 Comments )

today we’re tackling two topics: the question of how to define financial independence (and whether we’ve already reached that milestone without noticing), and sharing the contents of our already-full life bucket!

Set Yourself Up to Float, Not Sink // Deliberately Seeking Positive Buoyancy

By Tanja Hester on October 11, 2015 • ( 27 Comments )

this weekend we visited mono lake, an ancient and super salty lake. all that salt means that swimmers in the lake float easily. which got us thinking: it’s easy to think that swimming is swimming, but it’s not. we can make swimming hard for ourselves or easy for ourselves, and the same goes for our finances.

How We Went from Ballers to Savers, and Lived to Tell the Tale

By Tanja Hester on October 8, 2015 • ( 76 Comments )

one of the things that’s different about us, compared to lots of bloggers in the pf community, is that we are not frugal by nature. at some point, we realized that all of that spending, even if it wasn’t on stuff, was still locking us into needing our jobs, and needing them for a long, long time. and since we value time more than anything, and were in a position to make early retirement a reality, we knew we’d regret not changing our ways. but it hasn’t always been easy. here’s how we lived to tell the tale.

The “Our Next Life” Series // Time to Join In!

By Tanja Hester on September 14, 2015 • ( 44 Comments )

our bloggy buddy steve, who writes think save retire, started the about series a few weeks back that all bloggers are invited to continue, and more recently wrote a series on his own blog that he dubbed the “our next life” series. we love the name, obviously, and thought — why not also make it a series that we all contribute to? so this is our take. and we’d love for you to write your own and link back! who’s in?