The First Blog Year on Our FIRE Journey When we started CheesyGoulash at the beginning of 2025 (on a whim), it was still an experiment: writing an update every month or quarter about our Barista FIRE journey, sharing numbers, and at the same time telling personal stories about work, travel, sustainable choices, and investing. Now, about 10 months later, the posts mainly help us stay consistently focused on our goals. This year, for us, was not just about our finances, but lat