My name is Daniel and I started Sweating The Big Stuff to share my experiences as a way to learn about personal finance. I am in my early 20s and after graduating college and starting to work in the real world, have started to budget carefully in order to save for short, medium, and long-term goals.

I would like to educate people about ways to improve our finances while maintaining a high quality of life.

• Many personal finance blogs suggest ways to save money that are too disruptive to daily life. I seek to provide financial solutions without feeling the stress of micro-managing each and every financial decision.

• Instead of saving 12 cents on canned beans, I am focused on saving on larger, recurring costs that will have a meaningful impact on our finances.

• Quality of life is extremely important to me, and I would like to help people realize that they can live a healthy financial life while enhancing, not detracting from, our quality of life.