Unfortunately, because of the Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic life has changed for the foreseeable future. However, that doesn’t mean that our budget, deal, and life hacking has stopped. In fact, we even got in some travel hacking these last two months!
In our inaugural interview we’re bringing you the Satchell family, who aren’t only pursuing financial independence, retire early (FI/RE) but are doing it with with a young and growing family, a rarity by most FI/RE standards. See what they’ve learned about themselves through travel in Mexico and what ultimately brought them home.
It’s a new year and we kicked it off with taking advantage of many deals and hacks to save money and improve our life this month!
Want to lower your expenses and improve your budget? Are you looking to be financially independent and retire early (FI/RE)? We’ve found creative, extreme, and simple ways to lower our expenses while traveling as digital nomads, all while pursuing FI/RE. See how we lived on $7,000, all-inclusive last year. That’s just $3,500 each!
We ended the year with a month full of deal stacking, cashback offers, travel hacking with miles and points, and more! Not to mention, we completed another month of house sitting which cut our lodging budget to less than $50 this month. If you’re looking for ideas to cut your monthly expenses, travel for less, or just score some great deals, you’re in the right place!
We’re closing out the budget for the year and we’re excited to see that for our year of domestic travel we’ve actually cut our ‘year-in-Europe’ budget by over half! See some of the ways we spent under $7,000 (that’s only $3,500 each!) as digital nomads traveling the US, including several months around the New York City area.
There was a time when we thought getting a house sitting job would consist a lot on luck. So, it’s incredible to think that we’ve been house sitting for three years and have completed nearly 60 house sits! But, if you’ve read parts one through six of our Ultimate House Sitting Guide series, then you know that it actually does take effort and work to not only get a house sit but also fulfill the responsibilities and complete the house sitting job.
Now that we’ve shared our tips and tricks for everything house sitting, we thought there’d be no better way to complete this guide than with a few of our favorite house sitting experiences, challenges, and lessons learned/takeaways.
This month we topped the scales and spent the most we have in a single month for this entire year, just over $800. Read on to see where we put our extra dollars this month and were we saved big!
This month’s life hacking digest is full of deal stacking, credit card offers, hotel points, airline miles, lodging hacking, and much more. There’s even a few new and ongoing offers that came up this month! Read on to see how we made hundreds of dollars in points and miles, saved hundreds with deal stacking, and spent only $36 in lodging costs.
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We never really thought that a month of expenses while visiting New York City could be done for anywhere near $600, but we did it! We did sightseeing, lived in comfortable homes, ate well, and lived a pretty good life this month. Plus, we’re one month closer to financial independence, retire early (FI/RE) and loving our lives as full time house sitters and digital nomads.
We have a goal of financial independence, retire early (FI/RE) and long term travel, which means we’re hard at work making sure it happens. We have many travel, budget, deal, and life hacks in our tool box and are always on the lookout for new ones. Check out what we did last month, hopefully it inspires you!
Our monthly budget for two came in at just over $700 this month. Not bad considering we were in New York City! See how we’re outliers when it comes to our budget as we pursue financial independence, retire early (FI/RE).
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We earned a lot of miles and points this month between flights on Delta, hotel stays with Marriott, and a bunch of Lyft rides. Not to mention, we were approved for a few credit cards that offered attractive sign-up bonuses. Read on to see what deals and life hacking we took advantage of in September.
House Sitting: It’s not done until it’s done. In other words, you’ve completed a house sitting job and taken great care of the home and pets, but there’s still a bit more to do. Turning the home and pets back over to the homeowner, submitting reviews, and saying goodbye are still ahead of you. Read on for our tips on wrapping everything up, including leaving a great last impression and receiving and submitting helpful house sitting reviews.
We’re incredibly fortunate to be digital nomads who house sit full time in New York City (one of the most expensive cities in the world) and still pursue financial independence, retire early (FI/RE). We’re able to do so by keeping our budget tight and our expenses trim.
One of the ways we’re able to keep a trim budget is by taking advantage of great deals. So when it comes to travel, budget, deal, and life hacking, we try to be on top of it! Read on to see the gift card deals, reward points and miles, and more that we scored this month.
We’re opening our spreadsheet and sharing our monthly budget! See how we, as a digital nomad couple pursuing financial independence, retire early keep our budget and expenditures extremely low. We think you’ll agree that we’re doing a pretty good job of being outliers!
Did you know that airlines and hotels are giving miles and reward points away for ‘free’? And, did you know that credit cards offer deals, credits, and huge signup bonuses just for using their card? It gets even better when everything aligns perfectly and you score unbelievable deals and savings by stacking them! See how we travel, budget, deal, and life hacked this month.
