Frugalwoods – Making Frugality Fun

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🗓️ 11 December 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Frugalwoods joined me to talk about how frugality can help you reach your financial goals sooner and also increase your happiness in the process!

Highlights:

How to maintain a high savings rate while living in an expensive city
Tips for avoiding frugality-induced isolation
The importance of large goals
Keys to making frugality fun
When to give up a good thing
How to get a free graduate degree
The multiple fringe benefits of frugality
How to have children without delaying your early retirement

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0:00.0	I'm buying to give it to finance.
0:05.0	Hey what's up everybody.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Financial Independence Podcast, the podcast where I get inside the brains of some of the most influential personal finance writers to find out their take on financial
0:14.4	independence.
0:15.4	I'm excited to introduce my guest today.
0:17.1	It's the Frugal Woods.
0:19.0	If you read their blog, you know they refer to themselves as a couple of Frugal weirdos that live in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
0:25.7	and they're planning to retire to a homestead in Vermont over the next couple of years.
0:31.4	I actually have the pleasure of meeting the Frugal Woods in
0:33.8	September when we were both at a conference together and we spent the whole weekend together,
0:37.4	had a blast and yeah they're really great people so I'm excited to get them on the
0:40.8	show and you know sort of talk about their extreme
0:43.4	frugality which you know if you read their blog you you know that some of the stuff is
0:47.7	quite extreme but it doesn't seem to impact their lives at all and if anything it
0:52.4	enhances it so I'm excited to
0:54.0	you know chat about you know saving extreme amounts of money by limiting your
0:59.8	spending and how how to do that without ruining your happiness.
1:04.1	So yeah, without further delay, Mr and Mrs. Frugalwoods,
1:07.4	thanks a lot for being here.
1:08.5	Oh yeah, thanks for having us on.
1:10.0	We're excited.
1:11.1	So for those of my listeners that may not know, Frugalwoods.com, can you guys just tell a little bit
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