March 2021 Financial Update

March update got a bit delayed, posting our two-year update and traveling got in the way. If you have not seen our two-year financial freedom update, you can click here.  It has been a good two years.   Overall, March was a mundane month. Not much happening out of the ordinary, taking parents to appointments, triathlon training, …

Two Years of Financial Freedom

Today is the beginning of April 2021; two years since leaving my job as nurse faculty for a Midwestern University, where I had taught nurse practitioner students for the previous 7 years.  We had been preparing to leave our jobs for quite some time. Mr. Sunshine left his a year previous – see this post here.  It was still …

February 2021 Financial Update

February has been a whirlwind of activity and expenses. We started out the month at Gulf State Park, Alabama where we had been since January 1st.  We anticipated being there the entire month but instead headed home on Wednesday, February 10th.  We came home because of some health issues that my mother was experiencing (all OK now).  …

January 2021 Financial Update

We are stationary in Gulf State Park, Gulf Shores, Alabama for the months of January and February after being in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida for November and December. We visited Gulf State Park last February (2020) and decided we liked it enough to come back for two months this year. Many, many midwest snowbirds …

Budget Update – September 2020

Today's post is to update our budget information. It was March/April 2019 when I last wrote about our budget for living in financial independence. While much has changed in the world since then, much has also stayed the same. We still live in the same paid for house and drive paid for cars. Our only …

Financial Freedom 18 Month Update

So much has changed over the past 18 months that it is time to update this blog. What was our experience during the first 18 months of financial independence? Did we go back and get jobs? Did we get bored? How did our spending compare to my predicted model? How did the health insurance work …

Financial Freedom One Month Update

First Month of Freedom Today is the beginning of May 2019; one month since leaving my job as nurse faculty for a Midwestern University, where I had taught nurse practitioner students for the past 7 years.  While we had been preparing for the past year to leave our jobs (Mr. Sunshine left his a year ago …

Health Insurance for early retirement

The thought of being without health insurance can be very scary. Many of our friends work in jobs they hate, just to obtain health insurance for themselves and their families. We were among those ranks until just recently. Several months ago, I remember having a heart to heart with my younger sister about retiring early. …

First Week of Financial Independence

I have had apprehension thinking about quitting my job for months, therefore, no changes in my anxiety in the first week.  I left under a pretty intense situation when my boss tried to intimidate and bully me into working 60+ hour weeks.  The anxiety of confrontation still hangs in the air.   I have listened to many podcasts …

The Power of FU Money

  As I sit reading yet another demanding email from my boss, I begin to wonder….  When is enough?  I open our financial tracker to check our account balances, although I know the numbers by heart.  The anxiety is eating me alive.  Continue to work for a boss that sucks the soul from my body, despite a career that …