An Introduction - From AZ to NC

I'm Sarah, a freelance writer and editor. My husband, John, works in construction. Over the past five years we've made anywhere from $50K per year combined to $75K per year combined. We're currently on the lower end of that spectrum.

We met in Arizona and started our life together there. We got married and brought two beautiful little girls into this world, currently ages 2 and 1 (yes, we've got our hands full!). 

Itching for a change and wanting to escape the heat, we decided to move to North Carolina. We've only been here for three weeks, but so far we absolutely love it. The weather, the trees, the friendly people, the family activities, the jobs, the parks, the cute houses and more make this place the prettiest place in the world to live and the perfect place to raise a family (to us).

We sold our house in AZ and made a decent profit. Since this is a blog about finance, I'll be sharing most numbers here on the blog. Our profit was right around $40K. 

Moving is expensive - especially when moving across the country. I'll go into detail in another post, but we spent less than $3K to move our family of four plus two dogs from AZ to NC. The average cross-country move can cost as much as 8K for a three-bedroom home, so we saved a pretty big chunk.

We're just like every other young couple out there - we love spending time with each other and our girls, we enjoy traveling and trying new restaurants, we watch way too much Netflix, we work really hard and we try to make the most of this life.

We don't want to be millionaires to live a luxurious life. We want to be comfortable and we're huge believers that you can achieve any goal you put your mind to. This is our biggest goal yet - and we don't expect to meet this goal any time soon. But you have to start somewhere, right?

I plan on sharing how we're going from average to millionaires in detail on this blog. I'll share how we save money, the journey of couponing (something I just started last week), investing tips, growing our assets and having more than one income stream (you can't put all your eggs in one basket if you want to be wealthy).

Alright, here goes nothing...