We are a family of four living in the Denver suburbs. We live an outwardly unremarkable life while inwardly kicking ass in efficiency and frugality. Nothing we have done through our life together would be seen as particularly exceptional. I (DC) have had an average to good tech career. My wife (JC) sacrificed her career ambitions to raise our kids and be on point for everything in our life. To make that work financially, and to actually save large percentages of our one income, we became masters of frugality and intentionality. That has really only been possible as the byproduct of a great marriage, and two people who are in lockstep together.

Kids

Our kids are finishing up the 4th grade (BC, boy) and 7th grade (AC, girl). Both are doing well in school and are low maintenance in other ways as well. They are definitely doing their part to contribute to the simplicity of our life. Details of them in this blog will be light. I don’t feel they can truly consent to being included, even if I’m only using initials.

FIRE

We are pursuing FIRE but we aren’t quite there yet. Of the various categories of FIRE, I would say we are most closely aligned to lean fire. One man’s lean fire is another’s regular FIRE though. We’re probably on the border of lean and regular. As of the this update (March 2025) we have 22/25 FUs for our desired budget.

Blog Content

This blog will likely end up looking a bit scattered; a continuous flowing mind dump capturing details of our FIRE journey, our international gap year, and the stitchings of life that make that possible. It will hang out in a dark corner of the web, grow in content as the events are captured, then die in that same dark corner.