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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Financial Changes We’ve Observed Over The Last 20ish Years
We’re old and we’re not ashamed to admit it. Both of us began our financial journeys back in the mid-2000s and discovered Financial Independence about…
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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 Hot Takes On Tipping
Tipping is a deeply ingrained aspect of our culture here in the United States. While seemingly a simple act of gratuity, in reality it’s a…
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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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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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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 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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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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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…
