We're an average family in the Midwest, who lived willy nilly with our money for 9 years. The result: a huge mountain of debt and no plan for our financial future.
Then the unthinkable happened.
With $0 in savings, we faced financial ruin in 2018 after Matt got sick in 2017 and couldn't work for 10 months. About 6 months into his illness, I got SEVEN collections calls before noon on a Saturday. I had my sick and tired of being sick and tired moment that day. And we promptly started living life on a budget on February 1, 2018 - less than 2 weeks after that awful Saturday morning.
Here is where we travel the road to financial independence as we use our budget to bounce debt out the door, save for our future, and field life's financial curve balls as they're thrown at us. We share the good, the bad, and the ugly, and we hope you will join us on this roller coaster ride that is our life on a budget!