Mr. Nomad Numbers

We are a couple who travel the world and want to inspire people to think differently about the life they can design for themselves through our journey.

Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals on our favorite essential items (2020 Edition)

As aspiring minimalists, we don’t extensively buy stuff and rather focus on experiences. However, we are savers that can’t pass on a good deal especially for an essential item we needed to buy anyway. This makes Black Friday sales the perfect time to make these thoughtful purchases as they are usually heavily discounted. The key here obviously is “essential item”.

Since everyone will likely be looking at deals online (especially in 2020 – a big year for online deliveries), we decided to put together a list of our favorite slow travel essentials items that we have found discounted as part of the 2020 Black Friday season.

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[Interview #020] How to Have Your Cake and Eat It Too! Choose Work You Love and FIRE by 40+

Tara and Squash live on the outskirts of a large urban county in the western United States. While Squash can trace at least three generations back to his home state, Tara is a second-generation American whose parents immigrated to the US in the 1970s. She have been a financial independence/retire early (FIRE) adherent since 2015. Squash joined her in its pursuit after they were engaged to be married. While she is a social worker by profession, she currently is employed in higher education administration. Squash is employed as a programmer analyst in a research institute.

In this interview you will learn how they are on track to reach financial independence and retire from their job in their 40s while choosing work they love. What does a typical day in their life look like for them today vs before, what inflection point led them to decide to change their life trajectory, what were some of the limiting beliefs that hold them back, how much they spent per year and so much more!

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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown – A Book Review

Do you ever feel busy but not productive? Do you easily say yes simply to please & without really thinking about it? Do you wonder: “Why did I sign up for this?”. Maybe you should then consider reading Essentialism!

In this article, I will be going over the book from Greg McKeown that I read in March 2020. I discuss what the book is about, what is my take away from it, and the specific action items I implemented in 2020 after reading it.

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[Interview #019] From front-loading frugality & living on 24K a year for 7 years to living on 75-100K as an early retiree with a family of 4 without regrets

Jeremy, Winnie, Julian, & Jaiden are the family at GoCurryCracker.com. Jeremy quit working about 8 years ago to travel the world and have kids. Julian just turned 5 and has been to 42 countries. Jaiden was born in early August 2020.

In this interview you will learn how Jeremy retired early, what does a typical day in his life look like for him today vs before, what inflection point led him to decide to change his life trajectory, what were some of the limiting beliefs that hold him back, how much he spent per year and so much more!

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[Interview #018] Prioritizing Purpose and Family Abroad – A Humanitarian Path to Financial Independence with a Worldschooling Future

This Thailand-based, mixed nationality family has decided to raise their children outside of their own cultures. Joe was born in California and Ayie was born in the Philippines. They met in Bangkok during Ayie’s birthday present to herself: a solo holiday to Thailand. They married in 2015 and have two young boys. For the last two decades, Joe has had a job in what he considers the best, most fulfilling field in the world: international humanitarian assistance. This has led to an extremely nomadic lifestyle. Ayie grew up in Mindanao, Philippines. She is a nurse by training, a professional photographer specializing in lifestyle and portrait photography, and a stay at home mom.

As far as their approach to life as a family, they try to live simply and prioritize experiences over possessions. They also try to live life with meaning and purpose in mind, hope to impact the world positively, and incorporate giving and service into our lives. While they are taking inspiration from the FIRE movement, they know they are not promised tomorrow – they don’t want to be so driven by their financial goals that they don’t enjoy the adventures along the way. Their mid-term masterplan: aggressively save enough to be able to take at least a year off to slow travel while worldschooling their kids.

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Detailed Look at Quarterly Blog Income Report – Q3 2020

If you’ve been reading our blog, you know how much we love numbers and since we ourselves enjoy reading about others’ blog income, we thought we would share our blog income if you’re curious and considering starting your own.

In this article we explain how we monetize our blog, what works, what doesn’t and how much we made in the third quarter of 2020 (which covers the period from 7/1/2020 to 9/30/2020).

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