Perception is a funny thing.
I had no intention of writing a Part 1a to my recap of my first year of semi-retirement. I planned to move onto Part 2 (spending), Part 3 (earnings) and Part 4 (what’s next). However, I was alerted by a couple of people (including Poopsie) about an unintended perception of Part 1, so I thought I’d address that before moving on. Continue reading
Around about the time you’re reading this, I will have clocked up one full year of semi-retirement.
And what a year it was. For all intents and purposes, I was semi-retired for 2021. I had a couple of weeks of leave in the early weeks of the year (still employed but not at work), but for the most part, in 2021 I was not employed full-time. Continue reading
Last week, it was the one year anniversary of my last physical day in full-time employment.
My, my, how time flies. Continue reading
As I alluded to back in June, a few things about my six months of early retirement surprised me.
I wanted to share what those were in a bit of a series of blog posts. I hope you enjoy but fair warning, I’m not sure how consistent I will be in the series. They will come though! Continue reading
Welcome to The Australian Blogger Interview Series.
We noticed the Australian personal finance community growing, mostly through our interactions on Twitter and we wanted to continue to foster this great camaraderie. We’ve reached out to as many Australian personal finance bloggers as we could and asked them to participate in our interview series. If you have any favourite Australian personal finance bloggers, tell us about them in the comments below and we’ll invite them to participate.
Next Up: Frogdancer Jones from Burning Desire for FIRE. Continue reading
It has been six months since I was last at work.
I did my last full day of work in December and while technically I was still an employee until mid-January, I was on leave so haven’t done any work or had any responsibilities for six months. Continue reading
A few weeks ago, I announced that I would be semi-retiring at the end of the year.
The countdown is well and truly on and I have less than six weeks of full time employment left. Trying not to check out has been a bit challenging, but I am powering through.
I have never been particularly interested in YouTube.
I thought it was a place where you went to watch cat videos (and I hate cats) or to learn DIY. I also know a lot of people watch someone else playing video games and that it’s becoming more and more popular to watch kids unboxing or playing with toys. Continue reading
Welcome to The Australian Blogger Interview Series.
We noticed the Australian personal finance community growing, mostly through our interactions on Twitter and we wanted to continue to foster this great camaraderie. We’ve reached out to as many Australian personal finance bloggers as we could and asked them to participate in our interview series. If you have any favourite Australian personal finance bloggers, tell us about them in the comments below and we’ll invite them to participate.
Next Up: Sarah from Keepin’ It Frugal. Continue reading
I mentioned in a recent blog post that Poopsie and I had made an adjustment to our FIRE plan.
Today, we will be revealing all of the details and welcome any questions you may have. We have given this plan a lot of thought and set a lot of it into motion, however, there are still some parts that we haven’t completely decided on and discussion always helps with this. So please, let us know what you think below and if you think we have left anything out! Continue reading
