There's not even enough money to buy food unless they are living off savings. They couldn't even pay property tax!

By definition, if they were living off dividends or capital gains - if they were doing things legally - they'd have a higher taxable income.

This is click bait to the extreme.

I used to follow their blog and they are at the forefront of the FIRE movement. No thanks. It's crazy the length they go to in order to minimize their expense. They def have a lot of help from their family. It def is click bait and what they're doing isn't "healthy" in my opinion. We let our kids be kids and that means spoiling them on many things. I'm not referring to iPhones or cars, but more like I'm not going to worry about whether I should buy two icees or one icee to split between both kids.