Today, I’m sharing our family’s 2024 mid-year financial review. Here in the Rich Frugal Life household, we typically perform a deep dive into our finances at least twice a year. During this review, we compare our year-to-date spending to the budget, analyze our investment portfolio allocation and targets, and assess how we’re tracking towards our…
Welcome to Rich Frugal Life’s June 2024 financial results! Before we get into the numbers, here’s what we were up to last month. Relaxation and escaping the Arizona heat Staying cool is the number one goal for summer around here, where temperatures tend to hover between 105 and 115 degrees from June through early…
Welcome to Rich Frugal Life’s May 2024 financial results! Before we get into the numbers, here’s what we were up to last month. Let’s get healthy! Now that I’m in my 40’s (and suspect perimenopause), it’s time to finally commit more effort into improving my health. I’m not happy with where I’m currently at….
Welcome to Rich Frugal Life’s April 2024 financial results! Before we get into the numbers, here’s what we were up to last month. Giving back and smashing goals One of my personal goals for this year was to volunteer at least 200 hours in our local community. I completely smashed that goal last month…
One of my most popular blog posts so far has been about how much money kids cost and whether raising kids is really as expensive as everyone says it is. My initial post back in October 2021 included a deep dive into the USDA’s report on the average costs of raising a kid, and shared how much…
Welcome to Rich Frugal Life’s March 2024 financial results! Before we get into the numbers, here’s what we were up to last month. We passed our “Fat FIRE” number! This month, we finally surpassed our “Fat FIRE” number of $2 million dollars in investments! According to the 4% rule, this amount could provide us…
Welcome to Rich Frugal Life’s February 2024 financial results! Before we get into the numbers, here’s what we were up to last month. Happy Arizona Spring! February started off with unusually cold and rainy weather, causing us to hide out indoors and miss out on the Phoenix Open (because who wants to watch golf…
We may already be well into the new year, but I’m finally ready to share Rich Frugal Life’s 2024 budget! Why the delay? Well, life for one reason. But also, because we’ve been tinkering with our annual budget more than usual this year. I’ve only recently finalized it. Spoiler alert: Despite coming in $10,000 under…
Welcome to Rich Frugal Life’s January 2024 financial results! Before we get into the numbers, here’s what we were up to last month. New Year, New Goals Happy new year! It’s March, but I’ve been spending less time in front of the computer and more time enjoying the “best time of year” here in…
Welcome to Rich Frugal Life’s 2023 year-end investment portfolio update, including a discussion of the changes we’re making to our investing strategy in 2024. Last year was a great one for our investment portfolio! Mr. RFL and I were both surprised and thrilled to watch our investments increase by 53% during 2023. About half of…
Hi! I'm Mrs. RFL. We're a family of 3 trying to live a rich frugal life on our way to financial independence and early retirement ("FIRE"). I retired in early 2020, at age 38, to help our family achieve the balance we desperately needed. Even though we hadn't reached our end goal, making this change allowed us to take advantage of the financial freedom we'd already earned to begin building a happier, healthier and more meaningful life. This decision didn't slow down our journey as much as expected. We reached financial independence in January 2022! Rich Frugal Life follows our FIRE journey and shares everything we learn (or screw up) along the way.
