If you have been coming to this blog for a while, you know that I’ve been sharing the story of how we changed our financial lives over the past three years. You can read the whole saga here, but the headline is this: Three years ago, we were $30,000 in debt; today we have no [...]
How We Finally Finished Our Emergency Fund
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by on October 16, 2010
Last week, I was telling you about how my husband and I had been working on building an emergency fund of 3-6 months of expenses (since we’re both freelancers, we were going for 6 months to give us some added security). Creating this emergency fund was the third step in our commitment to living a [...]
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Why Saving for Our Emergency Fund Took Over a Year
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by on October 10, 2010
When I left off in my “honest discussion” saga last week, it was the summer of 2008 and my family had just boarded a plane bound for Kansas City from Tel Aviv. In January of that year, we had gotten serious about figuring out the financial mess we found ourselves in, not the least of [...]
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How We Paid Off $30,000 of Debt in Just 6 Months
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by on October 3, 2010
This is part four in my financial freedom series of posts. To read what brought us to this point, check out posts 1, 2 and 3 in our saga. ——————————— So, if you’ve been here before, you know that we were living in Israel — a high cost of living country with relatively low salaries, [...]
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How $1,000 Changed Our Lives
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by on September 26, 2010
This is part three in the story of how my husband and I became debt free, built an emergency fund and embraced financial responsibility. If you haven’t read the first two parts, you can do so here and here. When I last left you, my husband and I had faced the truth about the magnitude [...]
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How We Owned Our Problem with Debt
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by on September 14, 2010
Last week, I spilled my guts about the downward financial spiral my husband and I fell into just three years ago. I attributed our mounting debt to several factors: buying our apartment, financing several thousands of dollars of car repairs only to buy a new-to-us minivan a few months later, and stuffing our wallets full [...]
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