Top Things We Learned in 2025
Similar to what we experienced in 2024, each year is packed with moments that teach us something new and 2025 has definitely kept that streak…
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What We’re Thankful For in 2025
Another year, another bunch of things that we’re both so thankful for. Similar to last year, it may surprise some people that what we’re thankful…
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Our Thoughts About 33 “Year-Round Frugal Habits” (found on Yahoo)
Frugality is one of our favorite topics here at Epic Financial Journey. Even more fun than discussing our own frugal habits is learning what frugal…
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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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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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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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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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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 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…
