I'm over hear doting on tiny houses and their many upsides.While everyone is thinking bigger, and bigger. What's up with that? A Note to New Readers: My Weekend Wandering series is a time I take to wander off the main focus of this blog and discuss any other topic. Usually including videos that I found inspirational, informative or controversial. But if you'd like to talk about money read about how we obliterated debt in just 3 years. FYI, this post does dive into money, so stick around. Like all my weekend wandering posts this one is going to be chock-full of videos and the idea is that you watch them and be inspired. I won't be summarizing their awesomeness. Today I am wandering into the realm of tiny houses. I…
New Readers Note: My Weekend Wandering series is a time I take to wander off the main focus of this blog and discuss any other topic. Usually including videos that I found inspirational, informative or controversial. But if you'd like to talk about money read about how we obliterated debt in just 3 years. Work has gotten crazy busy in the new year and if you read my first Weekend Wandering post then you know that Fridays is the day I set aside some time to be inspired and engaged. With the crazyness at work I had no time. Until last Friday! The videos I watched did not disappoint. Not me at least. The first video that caught my eye had the words tolerance and tourism in the title. hmm…
Welcome to my weekend wanderings. I'm the Roamer here at Traveling Wallet. I hope you enjoy these videos. I know when you make big goals you often need inspiration and motivation and that's what I hope you'll get here in these segments. Do you feel like life is hard? Are you running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to climb some corporate ladder? So much to do so little time. I often like to ponder such questions. Sometimes I don't have all the words, or know all the right things to say. In these times I'm happy to defer to the experts. In my head I made it a goal to include at least 3 videos for all my weekend wanderings but today's video is so powerful and…
I have a little ritual I developed at work to cope with my dissatisfaction. I had listened to 7 habits cast and realized that effective people take responsibility for their lives. I was feeling rather passionless when I started but I found that watching some TEDx talks always gave my mind a work out whether it was inspirational or informative or controversial. It got my juices flowing. So I've made it a point that every Friday I schedule 30 min. To be inspired. After watching these I find a few that just are Wow and I want to share them. I use to email them out but it felt weird to just include specific people. And it seems limiting. But now, I own a blog a place where I can…
This weekend the Traveling Wallet has journeyed over to the wonderful blog 1500 days and was feature in the long running 10 questions and a pizza place. So head over there first to check it out. 10 Questions and a Pizza Place with The Roamer at The Traveling Wallet Welcome Are you new? If you are new here I'd like to welcome you to my humble abode here in internet land. I'm your host the Roamer here at the Traveling Wallet. I have had a crazy year slaying the debt monster and other such discoveries. I think you'll find the following articles a nice sampling of me and what I'm about. This is my most popular post. Where I tell you about how our family paid off the mighty sum of over 100k…
Another weeks come and gone. Let's see what happened over at the Roamer household. Pain This pain is brought to you by none other then my life oppressing job. I was suffering from pangs of anxiety for sure. You see I had a meeting with a client towards the end of the week, and to say that I wasn't fully prepared would be an understatement. Usually the team puts everything together by Monday but this was my 1st time and I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Not only that other departments hadn't prepared early either but I got focused and found the people to tap to get my answers . Could I have prepared sooner and avoided all the stress? Maybe. But that's not…
September Our San Francisco Vacation and other July Expenditures August Mini Retirement Update: July countdown July Capsule 8: Spring & 2 years of capsule wardrobesMini Retirement Update: June and growing worries. June Capsule 7: Winter and a wrap dress Mini Retirement Update: Slowly moving forward May Capsule 6 & A 10 x 10 Challenge Where have you been? Our travels so far Mini Retirement Monthly Update: Too much in my house April Capsule 5: Summer, No purchase necessary Mini Retirement Monthly Update: Passports? Yes, please! March My one goal this year February Home Tour & 2016 purge review January Expenses and the uber frugal month wrap up January 2017 2016 Goals: Year End Review Net Worth Update: Our growth in 2016 Uber Frugal Month Challenge, Well why not? December 2016…
We are on our way to Badassity. Monday we move on to a new challenge. Biking long distances with kids on a time constraint schedule with only one parent! The time part and the 1 parent here is the new piece. We spent time preparing for this trip by talking about it for a few weeks before hand and getting some of the logistical information. Like is there even a bike rack at the school?Answer. YES. [caption id="attachment_1050" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Minnie Roamer letting me know she is ready to ride her own bike.[/caption] So we woke up early got ready and set out. We rode the route we usually drive since it has a bike lane in some areas. The only adjustment we made was taking some different streets so…
If you've read about my travel this past 7 years you know I've moved around alot. And yes moving can be a hassle but it also has lots of advantages. Anyways I like the idea of moving around. I'll blame it on my upbringing. ;) Anyways we've been pretty stable lately and have lived in the same city for almost 5 years. I think we are ready to give this whole live closer to work thing a try, like MMM and Go Curry Cracker did. Pain The pain of moving around is the research is time consuming. It's also not super kid friendly if your trying to see a bunch of properties in one day. Schedules were interrupted and Minnie Roamer missed her naps both Sat and Sun leaving us with…
Pain So I just wanted to let you know that I'm sorry I've fallen off my consistent posting schedule. agh! I was doing so good too. Lately I missed a lot of posts, which sucks because it was my goal to have 1 post a week . It's my fault I fell off the horse. But below is the reason why. Excuses, Excuses , Excuses I recently attended FinCon ( financial bloggers conference) for the first time and what can I say I needed some time to recoup and make up for all the family time I missed. Also I needed to make time to process all the info that I got at the conference. It was awesome but also very overwhelming. I have to make a game plan because when…
Can you believe its been a whole year since The Roamer emerged on the blogger scene and started talking about the journey through parenthood, early retirement and travel here at travelingwallet? No!? Neither can I. But it has indeed been a year. I know because I got the renewal charge on my credit card. Realizing its been a whole year calls for some introspection which I want to share with you. I want to talk about a few things. My favorite posts What I learned My birthday wish request Blogs I'm hooked on What is coming up this year My advice to new bloggers Its a nice round set of topics from a year in this new world. The personal finance world. So let's get started. My Favorite Posts I…
