The wreckin’ crew
Funny thing the way times and situations get you down in life. How one minute you have what seems to be the world on a platter, and the next you realize how far off you are. Talking to my dad on fathers day brought a few insights to light for me. The world isn’t the [...]
Journey to Simplicity
Article: 72 Ideas to Simplify Your Life
A Life Racing By
I remember hearing that as you get older, the days go by slower but the years go by faster. I am actually finding that it ALL goes by faster – hours, days, years, decades. For the last few years, I’ve been feeling as [...]
Taking off the Blinders
a href=”http://www.getrichslowly.org/”>Get Rich Slowly has a series of articles about the stages of personal finance that he (and many others) go through.
His descriptions really resonate with me as we are just beginning along the same journey he documented on his blog. But as I research ways to improve our situation, rather than finding [...]
Getting out of my Nation
getting to the now from Procrasti
Procrasti-Nation that is. Its where I seem to live perpetually according to Val, and I have to say, if there is something I don’t really want to do, I’m really good at finding reasons not to do it. Thus I am not writing this so much for everyone else’s benefit [...]
Pins and needles
Anticipation is high for this plan to take effect. I want it all to fall into place and just be here now! Debt gone, the home selling/shopping and worries about starting over in a new job, state, and or life – just a funny story to talk about with family and friends. [...]
Purging
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The Best Place to Live (in the US)
The part of our 5 year plan that is the most fun is thinking about where we’d like to live. The possibilities are endless! New England? Deep South? Pacific Northwest? Rocky Mountains? My biggest problem is that I like them all!
Bill and I have discussed at length what our ideal location would be. [...]
Beginning Thoughts
My P.O.V.
Val gave you the basics, I’m just going to give you my point of view on the why & how. Once you’ve been floundering around for a while in life and not really able to put your finger on what’s not right, you kinda get to a point where nothing is making sense. [...]
Starting Over
Have you ever wished you could just leave? Just quit your job, move someplace far away, and start all over?
Well, we’ve been wishing that for a while. And we’ve decided we’re going to actually do it! We only get to live once and it sure seems like life is racing by. There’s [...]
Have you ever wished you could just quit your job, move somewhere far away and start all over?We did, so WE ARE! We woke up and realized we were in our 40's, struggling from paycheck to paycheck, not loving where we live - not really living. So we decided to change it all.
