Felicity

Lil Fixes (Mini Frugal Tip)

I drink a lot of loose leaf tea. It’s cheap and yummy. However, my tea strainer/tea infuser/mesh tea ball/whatever you want to call it started to develop what others called an “overbite.” I was definitely contemplating buying a new, probably novelty tea strainer when it hit me: “Umm, you are an engineer. Why don’t you, IContinue reading “Lil Fixes (Mini Frugal Tip)”

WASTE NOTHING – Watermelon Edition

This isn’t a financial matter for us, it’s…hard to describe. In some ways we live very wasteful lives – we drive to work (albeit carpooling) when we could be biking, we eat one lavish meal out a month (last time out was $94 with tip and tax), we spend hundreds a month (on average) traveling,Continue reading “WASTE NOTHING – Watermelon Edition”

Financial Freedom

When we first forayed into the world of financial blogging as content consumers, we were introduced to a lot of new terms. For the early retirement community, the most common are Financial Independence (FI) or Financially Independent and Retired Early (FIRE). There’s a reason (besides alliteration) that we use “Financial Freedom” as opposed to FIRE: Words areContinue reading “Financial Freedom”