Yes! Goal achieved: I’ve reached long service leave
Rarely have I been so happy as I am right now. It’s been a heck of a decade, but I…
How much have our living expenses changed over 5 years?
My husband Alex is the household’s keeper of the holy expense spreadsheet, where we track our ongoing expenses. After looking…
Lifestyle inflation: a nation of debt collectors!
Around almost a third of Australians are “over-indebted” and in a financial precarious position. That’s the perhaps not so surprising…
A fear of retiring? Surely not?!
After we recently announced that we’re retiring early even sooner, there was a moment where this whole early retirement deal…
The case for having too much money
Something curious happened on Reddit a while back. We posted our FatFIRE plans and our current frugal expenses to a…
The joy of seeing a financial plan coming together
Our investments certainly weren’t immune from the impacts of the coronavirus recession. We’re dividend investors, who are largely depending on…
Living life: how we intend to overtake the pack in retirement
A regular criticism of people who are frugal to achieve financial independence and early retirement is that they’re depriving themselves…
Our revised high income early retirement budget
If you saw our last post, you would have seen that we dropped a bit of an early retirement bombshell.…
Retiring even earlier!? Cutting three years from our FIRE date
Sit down, we need to talk. This post is a long time coming. But we have pretty big and exciting…
Q1 2021 income and expenses: 93.4% savings rate
Hi again everyone. It looks like we’re well and truly past “the start” of 2021. We had a couple of…
Quarter 1 2021 – Net worth update: Up $243,000
“Coronavirus is still the biggest elephant in the room, but things are going well, all told – at least in…
Rental properties overhauled! Finances turned on their head
After not giving our investment properties much love at all on the blog in the first 22 months of the…
Redefining what wealth is
Too often financial wealth is being seen to be successful. Cruising in new car with a bulging bonnet; strolling with…