We are off on our regular September holiday this week, and this year that has meant travelling to a house on the coast that is actually across the road from the beach. I’m sitting on the couch in the upstairs living room and looking out the window over the balcony to the beach as I write…
I’ve written previously about the value of being self-sufficient if you’re trying to achieve financial independence, but it’s easy to forget this if you don’t have the right attitude. Fortunately for me (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it), a freak occurrence this week forced me to test my attitude so that I could find…
I wrote a post back in April on the benefits of designing energy-efficient houses, which is something that any aspiring blogger would presumably be interested in so that we can reduce annual expenditures. My wife and I are particularly interested in this issue because we will renovate/extend our investment property in the near future and turn it into…
You may have read one of my earlier posts titled Accounting careers may not be as good as they once were, and if you did then you would know that I am a bit pessimistic about the future of our industry in its current form. One of the key reasons for my pessimism is the rise of cloud…
Regular readers of this blog won’t be surprised that as an accountant, I love efficient things, and when those efficient things relate to finances it’s even better. And because I consider myself to be a progressive accountant, I am amazed at some of the archaic financial “tools” that still exist and are somehow still used by a reasonable…
It’s been a while since part 3 of my series of posts on Our London Adventure, but I thought I had better get back to it again or I’ll never finish it off! In the last post, I gave an overview of some of our travels throughout Europe, with much of this taking place between…
I’m always bewildered by news stories about income inequality where they continually report that “the rich have become richer” as if this were surprising or something evil. It seems as if the media have a list of cliched statements/themes that they can continually roll out and get a reaction, and this seems to be one that gets a strong…
A huge proportion of posts in the personal finance blogosphere are devoted to giving or asking for advice on what people should invest in, but I often feel like this is missing the point in some ways. This is simply because if you are planning on retiring even remotely early, the bulk of your wealth will actually…
I have written previously about the importance of your spouse in achieving financial independence, but the almost unspoken thing about your spouse is that losing them can also destroy your dreams of financial independence/early retirement entirely. For those of you who have not read read the Millionaire Next Door, you should know that being divorced is a factor that makes…
I have been following the Greek debt crisis, which has supposedly been averted for now (again), and couldn’t help but draw some parallels between this and the way that many hyper-consumers live their lives. I thought it might be a good idea to do a post on it to put my own thoughts out there,…
This is the third instalment in our series about our London adventure. Check out the first and second instalments for the story so far. In the last instalment, we found jobs and a permanent place to live, so it was time to start travelling… Travels I could write all day about travels, but this isn’t really…
I wouldn’t have been sure before, and I’m still not completely sure now, but I might be doing something right with this blog as I have been nominated for a second award! How cool is that?! Kittens on a Twitten nominated me for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award on 17 June 2015, so that makes two…
This is the second instalment in the series “Our London adventure”, with instalment one covering the why and how of picking up our lives and moving halfway around the world. In this instalment, we cover some things about the jobs market and the start of our travels… Getting jobs Because we didn’t exactly have a lot of…
The year was 2008, we were 25 year old newlyweds in the first year of our marriage, and we had become a bit disillusioned with life in one of Australia’s largest cities. It was time for a change, and we had decided that this change would take us to… London! Why? My wife and I had…
If you read as many PF blogs as I do, you could be forgiven for thinking that the whole FI blogosphere is obsessed with achieving Financial Independence at the expense of almost all other things in life. At least that is what a typical hyper-consumer would probably think when they first start reading blogs from this community…
The Four Horsemen of the Middle Aged Apocalypse
Early retirement through the power of thrift
Sharing posts from Germany and England
A Geek's Guide to Financial Independence
The Insider Accountant 