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Bare Budget Guy is moving to tew & fro!
Or maybe I should say transitioning. I will never lose my finance focus, but our new blog introduces more of a family element. Also, Amanda will have a much more active role.
I’ve always been envious of husband-wife business teams out there, and now I am excited to be working more with my wife on this. She brings her own unique perspective, experience, and voice on things like finances, home-schooling, motherhood, being a...

This post is a follow up to my “How can they afford that?” post in which I showed you how I paid for going back to school with my family in tow. Part of the formula for making it work was borrowing $45,000 dollars for tuition and another $5,000 for a...

Call it what you want—a sabbatical, a gap year, a vacation, a mini-retirement, a time to come together, a mid-life crisis—we are moving to Nicaragua, and it is going to be epically awesome.
And we’re leaving next week.
Just…why?

When my doctor told me they had found cancerous cells in my thyroid (I didn’t know what a thyroid was either), it didn’t seem like that big of a deal. He told me it was the “good” cancer and fairly easy to treat. A few weeks later, they took out my thyroid...