Earlier this year I made a pledge to go a year without buying clothes. Six months in, that has been an incredibly pledge easy to keep. I dislike clothes shopping and I don’t have a personal interest in fashion. I don’t spend my free time browsing clothing sites or at the mall. I’m also lucky […]
Author: Kara
So What’s Next?
Now that I’m all debt free and have celebrated all over the great state of Texas you may be asking yourself “What’s this blog gonna be all about, if not Kara’s desperate and rather single minded sprint towards debt freedom? What does she have left to say? Will there still be catering leftovers?!” And perhaps […]
A Weekend of Debt Free Celebration!
Sorry to go MIA everyone, but as you might have heard, I paid off all my debt recently. And boy oh boy, did I celebrate! Look at those numbers up there, how could I NOT celebrate? KaraKara Perez is the original founder of From Frugal To Free. She is a money expert, speaker and founder […]
I am DEBT FREE!
It happened! It came! It’s real! I am debt free! I’ve known it was going to happen this week for a little while now. I was just waiting on a payment to come through my account. Yesterday morning it did and so I made my final student loan payment! KaraKara Perez is the original founder of From […]
Debt Payoff- May Update
May has come and practically gone. It was a truly rainy month here in Austin. While rain is normally a welcome thing in our drought ridden part of the country, we’ve experienced some extreme flooding and all the damages that come with that. It’s a tough time for many here in Central Texas. If you […]
How Technology Smoothed My Way Into the Personal Finance World
It’s a techy world out there nowadays, no matter what line of work you’re in. There’s an app for everything, people use phones to pay for purchases and every business needs to be on Facebook and Twitter. Bonus points if they use Instagram. You can 3D print things right into existence, self driving cars are […]
My Money Philosophy
Pondering important thoughts I live my life according to a very specific set of values and ethics. Combined together, you could call it a life philosophy. My intent is fairly simple: do whatever I’m doing well and follow what makes me happy. I believe in hard work, in fairness, in equality. I think if you err […]
Being Frugal While in a Relationship
I was single for a good long time. Pretty much my entire life actually, until I started dating my current boyfriend. We’ve been together for just over a year and my love of personal finance and dedication to debt eradication is definitely a big part of our relationship. Maintaining frugality isn’t always easy when it’s […]
I Think I have an Exact Debt Freedom Date
I have some very exciting news today y’all. It almost doesn’t seem real. After months of working my butt off, sending every spare dollar towards my debt and just dreaming of the day that I would be debt free, I think that day is in site. After some careful debt payments calculations (one of my […]
I Have a Positive Net Worth!
Never in my life has this been the case. Growing up I never had more than $500 to my name and I always spent it. And once I got to college, forget about it. I got into the red even though I worked all throughout college, simply because of my loans. Today I am thrilled to report […]