I recently had a consulting session with a FI blogger, and as I was preparing for it, I realized our household is $71K ahead of where it was in October 2014, when we discovered FI by reading Robert & Robin Charlton's book. I had not calculated this number and was very excited to see it.
Our increase results from debt payoff of $47,720 plus tax advantaged retirement savings of $23,308. We are down from 8 debts to 3 tax advantaged debts only. The re-fi of our home helped, but mostly it was getting rid of those pesky debts and opening a 457 that made the difference.
We also had an addition to our family since then, resulting of course in new expenses, including child care.
We only make about $120,000, so I think this is pretty good :)
