26.2 Ways That Marathon Training Is Like Saving For FIRE
Is running 26+ miles easier or harder than saving $1M+?
Dealing With Home Repairs
How to avoid budget busting home repairs while learning lots of new skills!
Guest Post: Mr. Sense Loves AirBNB
Mr. Sense discusses his favorite way to save money on vacation.
Eating The Freezer: Experiment Results
You’ll never believe how much our family of four spent on groceries last month.
Tithing- God’s Gift To Us
Why I believe tithing is especially powerful for Christians in the FIRE community.
A Mammon Sense Experiment: Eating The Freezer
Can this mom go a whole month without buying meat and bread without causing a family revolt?
My Recent Trip To The Mall
Mr. and Mrs. Sense finally let their hair down and go shopping.
The Worst Financial Mistake I’ve Ever Made
That time I really messed up, and what I learned from it.
Haircuts At Home
Upon setting our sights on financial independence, Mr. Sense and I eagerly experimented with all sorts of tricks from FIRE bloggers, including attempting haircuts at home to save on trips to Hair Cuttery. We had first experimented with this during the early days of Covid shutdowns, with… subpar results. But over the last couple of years, we’ve refined our technique and even gotten the kids on board. My sister trimmed Kid’s long hair over the Christmas break, and Boy Sense recently consented to letting me cut his hair, which turned out very well to my immense relief.
Lent Is Coming
When I was in elementary school, my dad packed my lunch everyday, so I rarely had the cafeteria food. I liked the homemade lunches, but I coveted the school food on Friday, when they always served pizza. When one of the other kids told me that the cafeteria had pizza on Fridays (always a choice of cheese or pepperoni) because Catholic kids couldn’t eat meat on Fridays during Lent, I had no idea what she was talking about.
The Sense Family Goes Back To The 1950s… Becoming A One Car Family
Can this suburban family of four possibly SURVIVE with just one car?