Brian Davis shares his journey about how he and his wife have beat the traditional job and have created financial freedom to pursue their dreams of traveling.
Category Archives: Investing
What Personal Finance Advice Would You Give Yourself If You Were Just Starting Out
If you could go back in time and give yourself some personal finance advice, what would you tell yourself? Some bloggers weigh in here.
The Journey to Investing: Tori Shares What She’s Learned
Learning to invest can be overwhelming with all the different information out there. Tori shares tips from her journey to investing in index funds.
Your Guide to Traditional and Roth IRAs
An Individual Retirement Account – IRA as it’s commonly referred to – is one of the most widely- used investment tools in America. You’ve likely heard the terms, “Roth,” and, “Traditional,” used to refer to IRAs as well – but what’s the difference?
To Invest or Pay Off Student Loans First? How Would You Answer?
Should we invest money first or aggressively pay off student loans? It’s the age old question! See my response and weigh in yourself!
Retirement’s Many Avenues
The road to retirement can have a lot of detours. Follow our guide to stay on track! Check out these 3 retirement ideas to see how you stack up.
Learning About Kid’s College Fund Planning
College fund planning. Every parent has wild dreams of hoping to make their child’s upbringing a little better than their own. It is natural to strive for this and is noble as well, as long as you are not sacrificing your own retirement, otherwise we are just trading one problem for another. Over the past week, I’ve been taking some time to go over some research about how much our family is going to need to send our 3 and a half year old and our 1 and a half year old to college when they hit 18. I thought […]
August 2015 – $69,466 – Net Worth Update (+$357.96)
We finally finished up our 6 month emergency fund this month. Stocks put a damper on our growth, but we ended up positive over the month.
The Power Of Dividends & Time
The other day I decided to check in on one of my favorite things, my Phillip Morris (Altria) stock (MO). When I was younger, I used to think that I would just invest all my money into dividend producing stocks and I would be rich. But, because of dumb financial mistakes and bills, I ended up cashing out almost all of my investments. I did, however, leave myself one share of one stock just to see what it would do over time though. And that one stock ended up being Phillip Morris (MO). I have held one share of MO […]
May 2015 – $65,904 – Net Worth Update (-$510.00)
Alright, here goes! My first real Budget Report/Net Worth Update!What HappenedThis month was a pretty good month overall, but I think with how the paychecks fell at the end of the month, our stats were showing a little skewed. We will see next month anyways. We got a good chunk of money put away into savings this month getting us all that much closer to our Fully Funded Emergency Fund of 6 months of expenses! Can’t wait to get that done so that we can start investing, saving for kid’s college and paying off the mortgage!Net Worth – May 2015AssetsHome […]