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The costs I cut out to get to Financial Independence

Before I discovered F.I.R.E. (Financial Independence Retire Early), I never thought much about money except once a year when I spent time writing a budget that I had no intention of adhering to. As my SO and I both had good careers, we did not track our expenses. We were more interested in raising our incomes. Luckily we were naturally frugal which helped us save.

Once I discovered FI, I wanted to speed up that journey, so I started to look at the fat in our expenses and started to trim away. I didn’t think we overspent but still we found there were a lot of things that could be cut.

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Traveling to Hawaii for under $200

So I introduced the blog as one about personal finance, personal development and travel but haven’t really talked about travel. I LOVE TRAVEL! The bug hit me early, as I all but grew up on my dad’s ship. His first career was that of a merchant navy sea captain. My first voyage was when I was 6 months old and I celebrated my first birthday in Australia! This also drove my love for the water and the need to always live near the beach.

Unfortunately we haven’t been able to travel as much, as I had a full time job till December. But now that I am free at 41, it’s time to make up for lost time and burn those miles. In April, we are going to Hawaii for a week! Aloha Maui, here we come!

But now that we make less than the average household in America, how do you fund travel?

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