Friday faves: Volume 169
For those who don’t know me, I am an independent Financial Adviser who blogs about Financial Independence. I am well…
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For those who don’t know me, I am an independent Financial Adviser who blogs about Financial Independence. I am well…
The build has gone smoothly so far. Touch wood! Which now we can. The framing has gone up. Most of…
Last week, I wrote about the regular moving of the goalposts when saving for retirement. In that article I wrote…
For those who don’t know me, I am an independent Financial Adviser who blogs about Financial Independence. I am well…
Our Lawyers came back to us with some feedback on the contract. The two most concerning aspects we wanted changed…
If you are anything like me, at first discovery financial independence seems like a straight forward goal. Have enough money…
For those who don’t know me, I am an independent Financial Adviser who blogs about Financial Independence. I am well…
We were drawn to an attractive new build offering from ANZ. We have applied for a pre approval and been…
Many investors over the last year have panicked about downward heading markets and have made sub optimal decisions. Some have…
For those who don’t know me, I am an independent Financial Adviser who blogs about Financial Independence. I am well…
Welcome to the latest instalment of “we’re building a house”. So if you came here this week for some personal…
It is no wonder economists are wrong more than they are right. The broad economy is incredibly uncertain. Forecasts require…
For those who don’t know me, I am an independent Financial Adviser who blogs about Financial Independence. I am well…
Another hiccup recently. Our mortgage pre approval has expired and due to changes in mortgage rates our bank is reducing…
Many people go through life spending most of their income if our countries average savings rate is anything to go…
For those who don’t know me, I am an independent Financial Adviser who blogs about Financial Independence. I am well…
So, the quotes are in. It is safe to say they have both exceeded our expectations by at least $100,000.…
When I first discovered FIRE about 8 years ago, I was excited about the possibility of saving enough money to…
For those who don’t know me, I am an independent Financial Adviser who blogs about Financial Independence. I am well…
When originally looking for land, we were looking around Wellington. After all, it was where we are both from and…
Since last week’s 0.75 percentage point increase in the official cash rate, there’s been much talk about a recession. Although…
For those who don’t know me, I am an independent Financial Adviser who blogs about Financial Independence. I am well…
For those of you following the blog, you will know that we are working our way towards Coast FIRE, where…
Kernel came out with an article over the weekend that renters could be $600,000 better off in retirement than homeowners.…
For those who don’t know me, I am an independent Financial Adviser who blogs about Financial Independence. I am well…
Small changes over the long term can make huge differences to your financial progress that are intuitively underestimated. Let’s take…
For those who don’t know me, I am an independent Financial Adviser who blogs about Financial Independence. I am well…