FIRE expense report is back! Spent about 90% of January overseas. Mostly Thailand. Three weeks in Bangkok, one at the beach in Hua Hin. Travel spending jumped 314%. You'd expect the monthly budget to blow up , but it didn't. Total expenses landed just $471 above my 12-month average. Domestic life pauses when you're away. Full breakdown in the blog post.
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FIRE Trial Expense Report — January 2026: A Month In Thailand And What It Did To Our Budget | Turtle Investor
We spent 90% of January 2026 overseas, mostly in Thailand. Travel spiked 314% in one category, yet total expenses landed just $544 above our 12-month average. Here's the full monthly expense breakdown, what alternative income covered it, and why the trailing…
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