Weekends at home with nothing planned are my favorites. I like to spend Saturday mornings catching up on various economic and finance blogs with a pot of coffee, then see where the day takes me. Sometimes I'll catch up on some gym time if I missed it during the week, but I'm more likely to take a long walk in my neighborhood and save the gym for weekdays. Other than that, I'll spend time with my family, maybe go out to lunch, run some errands, get some yard work done, or spend time on hobbies.
I use YNAB throughout the month. At the end of the month I summarize my income and expenses in a spreadsheet so I can see how my spending trends over time.
I recently played it and have a similar take. I'm really curious about what might have happened differently if I had made different choices, but right now that is still my story and I don't want to ruin it with a second run or watching videos from other players.
I had the same experience with the Life is Strange series of games. I haven't played Life is Strange 2 yet, but for the rest of the series I've only had a single run on each and am still not ready to change my story.
Thanks for starting this group. I started on my FIRE journey in 2018,though I didn't know it at the time. After years of just barely getting by, I decided to take control of my finances, track everything, and aggressively pay off my student loans. In 2020 I finally paid off my loans and switched to saving money, though I've also spent far more than I would have liked on deferred maintenance projects that I couldn't afford before.
Somewhere in there I learned about FIRE and started working on a plan for my family. At first I thought I would only manage FI and not RE, but that would still be a great outcome. Right now I'm looking at late FIRE in about 15 years (I will be in my late 50s then).
I don't usually post much, but will try to participate more to help contribute to growing this community.
Workforce forecasting.