How do we spend our money?

How do we spend our money? Other than saving it all for retirement, we have a set of criteria that we use for things we will and won’t waste our money on. Here’s a list of 5 things we “waste” our money on and 5 things we refuse to!

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What’s the actual math behind calculating your savings goal?

Learn the long equation over how to calculate your total needed. This is the followup to our video on How to Calculate your Savings Goal.

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Social Security and You!

Get the facts about Social Security and learn how to work it into your retirement plan! Don’t wait until you are old and wrinkly! Links and Tools:Social Security Login: https://secure.ssa.gov/RIL/Social Security Act of 1935: https://www.ssa.gov/history/35act.html

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What’s OUR biggest travel regret?

What’s OUR biggest travel regret? And how fixing it is helping us towards retirement? People around the world have different modes of transportation than we use in the US. Here’s how we’re approaching this as we get closer to our retirement and get ready for travel to begin again!

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Save Money by Traveling the World! A short primer on Geographic Arbitrage

Ahorra dinero viajando por el mundo: Arbitraje geográfico When we tell people that we are planning to retire in 6 years, the first question we get is, “How?” Our answer is always: geographic arbitrage. If you want to explore the world and retire sooner, this is the strategy for you! Follow us: Twitter: @GabyJays Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gabyandjays… Facebook: @gabyandjay Links and Tools: The Earth Awaits: https://www.theearthawaits.com The CIA Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publicati… https://www.madfientist.com/early-ret… https://www.getrichslowly.org/geograp… https://www.gocurrycracker.com/the-ea… Affiliate Links: Personal Capital! We use this to track our investments: https://share.personalcapital.com/x/3… GoogleFi This is our phone plan: https://g.co/fi/r/J5Y7FW Donate if you can: https://www.feedingamerica.org/

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Market Crash? We feel fine!

¿Se derrumba el mercando? ¡Nosotros estamos bien! Yes, the market is going down, but why are we not worried? Here we share our strategy to keep calm, despite it all! Our blog: https://ift.tt/2yRqkaG Follow us: Twitter: @GabyJays Instagram: https://ift.tt/35g25Pr Facebook: @gabyandjay Links and Tools: Go Curry Cracker’s View of the Worst Possible Retirement period in History!: https://ift.tt/2WuLPrf Mr. Money Mustache’s Take on Sales: https://ift.tt/2WtI31b Vanguard is where we invest: https://ift.tt/1Fu0vFX Affiliate Links: Personal Capital! We use this to track our investments: https://ift.tt/3dAYC0W GoogleFi This is our phone plan: https://ift.tt/2WrbXTV Donate if you can: https://ift.tt/2eKvgBt https://youtu.be/HZCDJX_AD94 https://youtu.be/HZCDJX_AD94 Gaby and Jay’s Journey

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Welcome to our Journey!

Hi everyone! We’re Gaby and Jay and we’re excited to share our journey to early retirement with you! So we set this goal for ourselves after a lot of talking with each other about what we want out of life and how we want to go about it. First, who we are: We live in Texas; Jay is originally from Chicago and moved to Texas about 15 years ago. He has family all over the country! Gaby is from Peru and Venezuela; she came to Texas about 11 years ago. Her family is very close even though they are geographically distant. Jay is a computer nerd, he has been doing…

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