Hi everyone
My wife and I are relatively new to the world of fire. In fact, I only discovered this site a couple of months ago.
This year we have been forced into a very tight, but liberating lifestyle. My wife is taking the year off to look after our newborn. So we are living off my wage, while paying for daycare for our three year old and a mortgage amongst other bills and expenses.
It has been liberating because, with the help of this blog and forums, we have come to the realisation that we can change our previously consumer driven lifestyle and live off my wage. Once she goes back to work, we will have most of her wage to pay off our unit hopefully very early.
Anyway, I thought I would share an example of our new found financial badassity. We take re-useable bags to shop at Aldi each week. Some of them were falling apart. So my wife got out her sewing kit and repaired them.
Sure in the scheme of things, this didn't save us much money, but it represents a huge change in our mindset and I thought I would share.