Welcome!
You’ve found us here at FInding Life Blog! Not sure what that means? Read on to learn more about what you’re missing!
What is FInding Life Blog?
FInding Life Blog is Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) lifestyle blog- a space to talk all things finances, frugal living, pursuing a life filled with meaning, and any other sprinklings of fun created by the FIndings (more on us below and at our about us page).
We have a few goals for this blog:
- Help you understand your finances and how you can make them work for you. We want to break things down so you can get on the path to financial freedom too!
- Provide a space where we can all learn new life hacks and financial strategies together.
- Give insight into how we are living frugally and you can too.
- Track our own savings, financial strategies, and path to FIRE.
- Keep ourselves accountable!
What is FIRE?
FIRE stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early.
FIRE is a movement or strategy many people (and not just wealthy ones!) are joining to create a life they love.
FIRE is the idea of making your money work for you. You do this by first learning to understand your own finances- how much you make, where you are spending it, what you pay in taxes, etc.- and then using different investing strategies and life hacks to improve your financial situation.
It mixes the ideas of financial strategy, frugal living, creating community, life hacks and optimization, and finding what is important to you into one big goal. The big goal being a life spending your time (and well saved money!) the way you want.
In this blog we talk about our path to FIRE. The strategies and hacks we are using, the struggles we face in keeping motivation, and the reasons we are pushing ourselves down this path.
Why should you pursue FIRE?
Freedom.
The short answer for most of us pursuing this path is that we want freedom to spend our time how we want.
That doesn’t always mean leaving behind our jobs, travelling the world, or living in a van (although for us, it does 🙂 ) The point is to have options.
Wouldn’t it be nice to not count how many vacation days you have left in the year to make sure you can visit your family and get a vacation? Wouldn’t it be great to spend that beautiful day outside if you wanted? Shop when the stores aren’t so crowded? Avoid rush hour? These things are possible with some planning, responsible earning and spending, creativity, and motivation.
Who are the FIndings?
We are a bit cryptic around here about who we really are, mostly because we want to remain anonymous until we are officially retired. So while we can’t tell you everything about ourselves (yet!), here are some basics!
- We are an early 30s couple looking to retire permanently and live off our savings by 2023.
- We plan to spend our time post-FI living in a van, travelling the world, working in part time jobs we find meaningful, and spending time with the ones we love.
- We think everyone deserves to live in a world where they are free from financial stress and able to decide for themselves what their life looks like. A big thought, but we’re dreamers over here.
- You can find out more on our about us page!
How can you start?
You already have! If you’ve made it down this far on the page, you are well on your way.
We suggest you read a lot before you jump in. This blog is a great place to start 🙂
Then you can check out some of our favorite FIRE blogs.
The next steps would be to really take a look at your earnings and spending, create a financial strategy, learn to optimize your life, and find the reason you want to pursue FIRE. None of these are small feats, but if we can do it, you can too.
So poke around the blog some more to see what works for you. And feel free to connect with us on social or leave us a message, we would love to help you along, share our story, or just meet up!
And with that, we say “Congrats!” You’ve just begun your path to FIRE.