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Early Retirement Travels - Week 11 Thailand
It’s been a quieter week, but not just because I’m a bit lazy. We'd always planned to make part of our time in Thailand into a relaxing break.In Chiang Mai during the first part of the week, we took a...
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Should Personal Finance be taught at school?
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.I'm probably slightly misusing the proverb, but figure my sentiment is correct. It makes sense to teach...
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Early Retirement Travels - Week 12 Thailand
We’ve done very little this week, which was always part of our plan. Five days doing not much more than lazing by the pool or the beach and travelling between places on the other two days.The distance...
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Early Retirement Travels - Week 13 Goodbye Thailand, Hello Vietnam
Perhaps you’ve seen the television show “An Idiot Abroad”? A shame to say that I did a good impression of being the idiot this week.We were supposed to leave Thailand for Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam on...
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Early Retirement Travels - Week 14 Vietnam
Our four weeks in Thailand and Vietnam have been the lowest cost part of our trip so far. I can see why it tempts people to retire there.We never aimed to travel super cheap, but we do try to keep the...
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Early Retirement Travels - Week 15 Vietnam & India
We moved on from Vietnam to India this week, where we met our daughter, Rebecca, in Delhi.Our final Vietnam treat was the cooking class mentioned in last week’s post. I’ve done two cooking classes now,...
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Early Retirement Travels - Week 16 India
We’ve seen two different sides of India this week.The first was the conclusion of our Golden Triangle tour with more forts and palaces in Jaipur. Individually they’re very impressive, but it did feel a...
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Early Retirement Travels - Week 17 & 18 India, Dubai and home
That’s it. our travels are over, or at least this part, and we’re now back to where we started.The final days were very relaxed, not a bad way to finish. We had two days remaining in India, before...
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Early Retirement Travels are Finished
I travelled for four months as part of my early retirement plan. Now I’m back home, it’s time to look back and see what I thought of it.Firstly, why did I decide to travel? I knew early retirement...
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Is Early Retirement about to get harder?
I’ve now been full time early retired for two years and it could be about to get a whole lot harder.That sounds odd. You’d think that after two years I ought to have figured out how it works. Surely it...
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Two years of early retirement
Best wishes for the new year. I hope it will be full of wonderful things for you.A new year means I've now completed two full years of early retirement, a good time to look back and see how it's...
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Am I Mr Fat FIRE?
These days, I care a lot less about what other people think of me.Perhaps it’s part of getting older, but I think it’s more likely linked to the sense of freedom I feel from being early retired.Before,...
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Downsizing for early retirement
The math to optimize the FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) date is pretty simple.Step 1 - save more (by spending less) while you're working, the quicker you'll get to the lump sum you need...
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The other half of early retirement
I retired in December 2016 but my wife, Sally, chose to continue working.It wasn't long until we found Sally and I weren’t quite on the same page. I thought Sally would join me on early retirement...
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Early Retirement Costs - Jan 2019
I'm back on the money trail, or at least back on the tracking my costs trail.Really, I never stopped the tracking, just the sharing. Last July to December involved leaving Dubai, four months travelling...
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Five things that make my early retirement work
I've been full time early retired for just over two years now, and it's great. That's not the case for everyone. For some it doesn't work, and there are others who'd like to try but find it difficult...
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Early Retirement Targets - February 2019
I like the idea of targets - they should help me achieve the things I want to do. Being clear about my aims must surely give me a better chance of achieving them. But despite being sold on the idea, it...
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Last week was a failure
Okay, so that's more lie than truth. Actually, it's almost all lie, possibly a complete untruth. Maybe I should be a politician?Failure? Because I set myself a target to publish one blog post a week,...
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Early Retirement Costs - February 2019
February is finished, so it's time for my early retirement cost update, and also a look at how I'm getting on with my targets.CostsWe've now finished our second full month of living in France, although...
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Early Retirement Starting Again
Some things come up repeatedly as common early retirement topics, including:If I retire, how will I fill my time?Will I be lonely because my friends will be at work during the day?I have a plan to...
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