Through a mixture of "keeping up with the Joneses" and "flying too close to the sun," we somehow turned around and found ourselves with around £140k of personal debt and suffocating monthly payments.

We were living in a big manor house with an even bigger mortgage and car payments. When we became parents, we suddenly realised how fragile and unsustainable our lifestyle and finances were.

So, we stripped everything back to basics, sold everything we owned, and started over. I started BTB in 2020 as a way of documenting our journey as a family as we tried to repair our relationship with money and build a smaller, simpler, and slower debt-free life.

After lots of hard work and budgeting, we celebrated our debt-free day in 2024!