Our Takeaways From FinCon 2025
FinCon was unquestionably a memorable event that both of us were glad to have experienced. We each went into the conference with our own expectations…
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Recap of FinCon 2025
We did it! We successfully survived our very first FinCon and boy do we have some thoughts to share. Although neither of us really knew…
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Expectations for FinCon 2025
We’re headed to FinCon 2025 in Portland! (Well, perhaps that statement is tremendously obvious already, because why else would we write a blog post about…
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Talking To Other People About Money & Financial Independence
Unfortunately money is just one of those taboo topics that most people don’t want to talk about. It doesn’t matter whether the discussion is amongst…
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Two Paths to Financial Independence – How Fast We’re Going
Similar to the popular mantra “personal finance is personal”, there is no one “right way” to achieve Financial Independence. In fact, there are an almost…
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Two Paths to Financial Independence – What We Invest In
Similar to the popular mantra “personal finance is personal”, there is no one “right way” to achieve Financial Independence. In fact, there are an almost…
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Family Series Part 6 – Travel & Other Fun Activities
While Parts 1-5 of this Family Series have focused on finances and other meaningful topics such as career paths & learning, we aren’t 100% serious…
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Family Series Part 5 – Thoughts on Life After High School
The first 18 years of most children’s lives are fairly well mapped out and uniform, at least here in the United States, from the progression…
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Family Series Part 4 – Allowance
Allowance is another one of those highly debated topics when it comes to kids & money, with a wide array of thoughts & opinions amongst…
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Family Series Part 3 – Teaching Kids About Money
Much the same way that different teachers can use different methods to educate their students, parents can use a variety of methods to educate their…
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Family Series Part 2 – Joint or Separate Finances
Probably the number one most asked question in personal finance is whether or not to pay off a mortgage early vs. investing the money instead. …
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Family Series Part 1 – Our Partners’ Thoughts About Personal Finance & Financial Independence
Both of us are married and in each of our households we are the ones that are most interested in personal finance & Financial Independence. …
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Celebrating One Year of Epic Financial Journey
“3… 2… 1… And we’re live!” Those words were uttered one year ago on the morning of 3/14/24 from a hotel room in Cincinnati, Ohio. …
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Our Thoughts About 18 “Poor Hacks” (found on Yahoo)
By now all of our readers should know us well enough to recognize that we’re big on frugality. In fact, sometimes we’re even ridiculously over-the-top…
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The Financial Mistakes We’ve Made
Nobody is perfect, especially not us. We’ve all made mistakes in every aspect of our lives and that’s okay. While many people may feel shame,…
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Goals And Plans For 2025
Per tradition (at least in American culture), here is a list of goals and/or plans that each of us have made for the upcoming year. …
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Top Things We Learned in 2024
Each year that passes is full of numerous experiences that we can learn from and 2024 is no exception. Sometimes these lessons are obvious, but…
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What We’re Thankful For in 2024
Both of us have many things to be thankful for this year. While this blog is focused on personal finance & Financial Independence, it may…
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Spending Series Part 4: Spending Extravagantly On Things We Love
While frugality is an enduring pillar of Financial Independence, recently there have been some changing attitudes in the community towards spending money. Frivolous or unintentional …
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Spending Series Part 3: Purposeful Spending on Non-Essential Items
With frugality so ingrained in most of us here in the FI community, it’s sometimes hard to even think about spending money, let alone actually…
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Spending Series Part 2: Ridiculously Over-the-Top Frugal Habits
While most of us in the FI community treat frugality as a badge of honor, sometimes we can take it TOO far. Of course, deciding…
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Spending Series Part 1: Our Frugal Habits
Frugality is a cornerstone of Financial Independence. While most of the world may view frugality as foolish, restrictive, or even a fruitless waste of time,…
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Celebrating 25 Years of Friendship
Band. Marching band tryouts to be exact. That’s where we first met in the fall of 1999 at our local public university. This admittedly sounds…
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The Downsides of Financial Independence
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Why FI: What Financial Independence Means To Us
The term “Financial Independence” or “FI” is confounding – it’s one of those nebulous phrases that has a technical definition, yet there is additional nuance…
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This Is It, Don’t Get Scared Now
Hello and welcome to Epic Financial Journey; we are your friendly neighborhood personal finance blog. As you can probably see we are the new kids…
