FIRE = Financial Independence Retire Early
A large part of this website is about financial independence retire early (FIRE) and our FIRE journey. Topics include – What does financial independence retire early mean, How to achieve financial independence retire early, Lessons learned during our FIRE journey.
Let’s talk about FIRE!
As we are getting closer and closer toward our goal of early retirement, we have been doing a lot of projections, calculations, and planning. While it’s somewhat easy to estimate our income and expenses in …
As you can imagine, a lot of planning is required to reach early retirement. Despite all the planning, projections, and running different scenarios, there will always be some level of uncertainty when it comes to …
Like many dividend investors, when we started our dividend growth investing journey, we were obsessed with one particular number – how much dividend income we received each month. While watching dividend income coming in every …
It’s been 15 years since we started our financial independence journey. I will be the first one to admit that my mentality toward money and life has evolved over those past 15 years. I truly …
Long time readers will know that my wife and I are deploying a hybrid investing strategy – we invest in both dividend paying stocks and index ETFs. It is our goal to have our portfolio …
Last week Reader B, a fellow Canadian shared his amazing dividend investing story with us. B and his wife retired in 2004 at age 55 and have been living off dividends since. What’s amazing is …
It’s hard to believe that 2025 is in the books and we are in the first month of the new year… and the second quarter of the century. 2025 was the seventh year that I …