On our way back from Wisconsin, we stopped in Chicago. ?We got our oil changed in the city for $30 dollars, saving us on parking. ?But, they said we needed our brakes done and wanted to charge us $374 dollars for the job.
We decided to buy the parts online instead and do it ourselves. ?It saved us over $300 and it was a great opportunity to teach Lauren how to change her own brake pads.
Every month we make between $100-200 a month online from a few websites I built back in 2011. Everything I learned about making money online said to build low quality websites and then write hundreds of articles linking back to it, so it looked more useful than it really was.
Unfortunately google released their Panda update a month later that changed everything. But, 3 years later we still make a couple hundred bucks, so it wasn’t a complete waste of time.
Even more important is that I learned how to do it the right way, which happens to also be the hard way. The simple formula for making money online is:
Create useful content, build an audience. Then sell them a product of your own, or put ads on the site.
In the video I give an example of my own failed websites, and example of the right way.
Leave a comment if you’d like to hear more specific ideas for making money online.
Jake at The Voluntary Life approached us about an interview for his podcast last week. We had a great conversation about our plans to retire extremely early, and how friends and family have received the idea.
Head on over to The Voluntary Life to have a listen!
Hope you’re feeling nosy! We’re about to strip down to our financial birthday suit and reveal our income, expenses and net worth. We did it to keep ourselves accountable to our goals and make things more interesting for you guys.
We debated for months whether we should or not, but decided it would need to happen sooner or later, so why not sooner!
We’ll cover our expenses in detail in another video.
Here’s a link to the Blank_Net_Worth_Projections?spreadsheet I referenced in the video.
Let us know if you have any questions in the comments. Thumbs up if you like this video, and don’t forget to subscribe!
We visit Atlanta to interview Paula Pant from AffordAnything.com. ?She is a financially independent blogger who accumulated a collection of rental units that provide over $35,000 in completely passive income. ?She also has a successful blog, content marketing company, and has traveled to over 30 countries!
We took a road trip to Atlanta to interview Paula from AffordAnything.com. ?Our friend Ryan Parker came along to run camera. ?This is what it’s like having a friend like Ryan Parker….
This is how we invest our own money in the stock market. ?For more information about our investment philosophy check out:
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Tenth Edition)
Jim also wrote a good intro to investing that he calls his “stock series.”
If you have any questions, leave a comment below!
Here is a tour of our house. We show just a few of the ways we’re able to save 75% of our income every month.
The biggest budget items for most people are:
1. Housing
2. Transportation
3. Food
We keep costs down by living simply in a small house, saving cash for our car, and limiting our restaurant eating to $50/mo.
Also be sure to DIY everything, buy used, and cut your energy costs as much as possible (gas for the car and electricity at home).
Here’s everything we knew about raising goats before we bought our kids (baby goats) on craigslist. They are a lot more fun that we expected, but they still take a little work.
Lauren’s Instagram
https://instagram.com/lauren_moyer
