FIRE Progress Report – September 2025

Progressing slowly, trends emerging What happened this last month? Many of our numbers improved this month primarily because the market has done well. We now need our expenses to decrease in order to get in line with our savings number. It’s quite possible that the markets are being held up by a few companies that…

FIRE Progress Report – August 2025

Catching up from last month What happened this last month? After purchasing a car last month, this month we spent much of it catching up from last month. This meant that any additional money we would have normally invested this month, we ended up using it to rebuild accounts. Because of this, it ended up…

FIRE Progress Report – July 2025

Another car and layoffs What happened this last month? We’ve went through several 12 month periods where our expenses have been increasing. First, it was to put siding on the house, then a new roof. That was followed by a horse, truck, trailer, and another car. Fortunately, we can’t foresee there being any additional major…

FIRE Progress Report – June 2025

Investments and expenses climb What happened this last month? We’ve begun to notice that our expenses continue to be higher over time. A lot of this is likely due to the fact that we’re not tracking things very well or dividing up expense categories. We already have what seems like WAY too many budget categories,…