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We All Have Too Much Shit

We All Have Too Much Shit

By Emily Firebird Finance|2021-03-15T17:39:19-04:00April 6th, 2018|Categories: Miscellaneous|Tags: Challenge, Clutter, Declutter, Decluttering, Firebird Finance, Goals, Happiness, Hoarding, Minimalist, Minimize, Move, Moving, My Story, Organize, Our Journey, Our Journey to FI, Save, saving, spending, Stuff|

We all have too much shit. We store it thinking that we'll have time to go through it someday. My calendar says that someday is today.

Frugal February Challenge Check-in

By Emily Firebird Finance|2018-02-16T11:44:56-04:00February 15th, 2018|Categories: Personal Finance|Tags: Challenge, Frugal, Frugal February Challenge, Money, Our Journey to FI, spending, values|

Happy belated Valentine's Day everyone!! We're now officially halfway through our Frugal February Challenge and so far our spending has

Crappy Salad or Aston Martin?

Crappy Salad or Aston Martin?

By Emily Firebird Finance|2020-04-20T18:41:21-04:00February 11th, 2018|Categories: Financial Independence, Personal Finance|Tags: cars, Challenge, FI, finance, Investments, Lunch Money, Money, Savings, spending, Work|

This is the true story of my former coworker, John. John is a car guy. I also love cars so

Let’s talk about the F word. Frugal.

Let’s talk about the F word. Frugal.

By Emily Firebird Finance|2021-07-11T17:46:01-04:00October 28th, 2017|Categories: Personal Finance|Tags: cheap, Coach, Coaching, Dollars and Cents, f word, FI, Financial coaching, Financial Independence, Firebird, Firebird Finance, Frugal, frugality, Joneses, Keeping Up with the Joneses, Money, Personal Finance, Personal Finance is Personal, Save, Savings, spending, values, Wealth|

Frugal. Over the course of the 20th century, frugal has become a dirty word synonymous with the word cheap. Once