How we accidentally discovered a frugal lifestyle

Kasey and I both graduated from Penn State with our bachelor degrees in biomedical engineering. I wanted to go into the medical device industry and he wanted to get his pHD and was considering academia. The good thing about getting your pHD in bioengineering, most time they will pay for your schooling and give you as stipend, the bad thing is that is is usually 6 years to complete and they, at the time, paid a meager $23K stipend which thankfully included health insurance. We both are very fortunate to have parents who invested in our education. Kasey did not have debt coming out of school and I only had about 25K. 

Continue reading “How we accidentally discovered a frugal lifestyle”