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Court and Nic are a married couple with two beautiful children, living retired in Canada on about $30K a year. We discuss a wide range of topics with Court from Modern FImily:
- How she was raised financially
- How she first learned about financial independence
- Paying off $65K in loans dring 2.5 years
- Finding your people and community and how it leads to further optimizations
- Her frugal lifestyle and some of her approaches and tips for saving money
- How to save money while still socializing and making connections with friends
- How to continue to cut costs while not depriving yourself along the way
- How they save on the top three expense categories; housing, transportation, and food
- How they spend less than $30K a year as a family
- How to hack your life to save money
- The excitement and pleasure of finding a good deal versus spending money
- Questioning why we’re all working so hard to buy fancy things just to have to keep working a grind for 30 or 40 years
- How to have a meaningful life without having to break the bank on it
- The power of compounding interest
- The difference between frugal and cheap
- The importance of downtime
- Being a valuist - figuring out what brings value to you and your life and then cutting out the rest and the fluff. Being a valuist is getting your spending in line with what you value.
- How they make friends in their early retirement lifestyle
- Her billboard sign: Prioritize your most precious resource, time!
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