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.
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Since graduating from university, I have spent my entire working career with the same company. In fact, I have spent over a third of my life working at the same company. I would be the …
October 2020 was unusually dry here in Vancouver with less than 90 mm of precipitation. For the past number of years, we usually got more than 100 mm of precipitation, even over 200 mm in …
It is hard to believe that I have been working from home for the past eight months due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. When my work sent out the work-from-home-until-further-notice email on March 13, I …
In 2009, when Personal Capital first came out, I decided to give it a try but quickly found out it was designed for Americans only. Personal Capital couldn’t access Canadian financial institutions so it was …
Last year I started publishing my annual goals & resolutions. I then provided an update every quarter. This kept me very motivated and kept myself accountable for my goals. As a result, I met and …
The financial independence retire early movement is getting a lot of attention lately. While it’s nice to see the movement gaining traction, I feel most of the major media coverage has been very early retirement …
Can you believe that there are only three months left for 2020? Given that I’ve been working from home since the middle of March and for the most part we have been staying at home, …