I discovered Mr. Money Mustache at the beginning of November 2014 and I caught up to the current post after starting from the beginning in 3 months. It has taken a month for me to post because as a computer geek i'm a bit of an introvert. I am 22 years old and this was my situation at the time I came across MMM.
I had just quit my job out of high school as a computer tech for a small mom & pop shop due to them getting months behind on payroll. I was fortunate in that I had always been a bit frugal in life, so I had around $25,000 saved up, mostly in a brokerage account. I hadn't seriously done much college wise, so I had no student debt. I have never and plan to never pay a cent of credit card interest, but I had a auto loan for a mid-sized 2009 toyota that had $4000 remaining at 6%. That was my only debt. I live with my parents paying rent while I save up a down payment for a house.
I found MMM when I was researching on lending club. Being an engineer at heart, I have always been interested in making things more efficient and effective, and I was doing research into ways to stretch my dollars while unemployed. I had heard the MMM name mentioned on /r/personalfinance a few times before but never gave it much thought. I like his writing style and through him have been enlightened to the ways of Financial Independence.
This is where I stand 3 months after starting my mustachian adventure: Auto loan is dead, saving me $900 in interest over the 2 years it had left, and dropping my monthly expenses $200. I said fuck it to trying to find an employer and started my own IT consulting business, which is already on track already to make me double what I earned last year. I started keeping total track of all my finances and am slowly reducing my expenses wherever I can find an alternative. I am currently canceling my ATT phone plan that costs $40/month and replacing it with the freedompop $0/month plan. I expect the amount I save this year will exceed my total savings from when I started down the FI path.
The numbers may seem small to some of you, but as a 22 year old with dreams of FI in his 30's, I feel that I am fairly well positioned with $0 debt and a solid career ahead of myself. I expect my 'stache to be capable of covering my current fixed expenses by fall of 2015, and it's only onward and upward from there!