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Deciding to Become a One Car Family

Deciding to Become a One Car Family

By Emily Firebird Finance|2022-02-08T08:43:41-04:00February 8th, 2022|Categories: Personal Finance|Tags: Car, Car Maintenance, Car Tax, finance, Financial coaching, Firebird Finance, Fuel, Gas, Money, One Car Family, Personal Finance, Savings, Vehicle|

Walking through our decision to reduce down to a one car family. Making intentional lifestyle changes to meet our needs and goals.

Start Fresh in February

Start Fresh in February

By Emily Firebird Finance|2022-01-31T14:36:58-04:00January 31st, 2022|Categories: Personal Finance|Tags: Annual Review, Annual Review Checklist, Cents, Checklist, Dollars, Dollars and Cents, FI, finance, Financial Independence, Firebird Finance, habits, Money, New Year's Resolutions, Personal Finance, Plan, Planning, Retirement Planning|

Already feeling like you've messed up your New Year's Resolutions before January is even over? Start fresh in February!

Google FI or Mint Mobile

By Emily Firebird Finance|2021-12-10T13:55:17-04:00December 10th, 2021|Categories: Personal Finance|Tags: Bills, Data, Dollars, Dollars and Cents, Expense, expenses, Firebird Finance, GB, Google FI, Living Expenses, Mint Mobile, Money, Monthly Bills, Pay, Paycheck, Personal Finance, Phone Service, Referral, Save, Savings, service, Spend, spending|

A few months ago my wife and I switched from Google FI to Mint Mobile. Originally, I had been an

Beware the Sunk Cost Fallacy

Beware the Sunk Cost Fallacy

By Emily Firebird Finance|2021-07-02T15:39:00-04:00July 2nd, 2021|Categories: Personal Finance|Tags: Career, Expense, expenses, FI, finance, financial flexibility, Financial Independence, Financial Security, Firebird Finance, flexibility, flexible, Investments, Levels of financial security, Life, Lifestyle, Lifestyle Inflation, Living Expenses, Money, Personal Finance, Real Estate, Savings, Spend, spending, Sunk Cost, Sunk Cost Fallacy|

No one likes to admit that time and money has been wasted on the wrong thing, but throwing more time and money after it isn't the answer. Beware the sunk cost fallacy.