Reading Time: 3 Minutes What’s going on peeps! Whilst on the bus earlier today, I was reading a FIRE blog which is a personal fave of mine, called Young Adult Money. I think the blog is predominantly about young adults and money. David does a fantastic job with his blog, and I thoroughly suggest you go through his other posts – they’re pretty awesome! Actually, I was reading up on their latest post on Basics of FIRE: Financial Independence Retire Early. For everyone who wants to know what FIRE is and what it’s about, this post provides a great starting point. The post also goes through the well-known concept of the…
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Cryptocurrency Update
Reading Time: 2 Minutes Howdy everyone! Hope we’re all settling into the new year. Everyone’s heading back to work now (boooo!), you can see it written on our faces. Depressed look. It’s why we have to FIRE people! Get some of our time back to do the things we want to do. Mini-rant over, I wanted to visit the crypto-market today as it’s been a while since the last update. We all know what happened a couple of years ago, when crypto was on everyone’s lips. And yes, we all know for every crypto-millioniare, there are hundreds, nay thousands, nay hundreds of thousands, who have lost their shirts investing gambling on them. Myself…
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4 Ways to Keep Your New Year Resolutions (Happy 2020!)
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Happy New Year everyone! It’s the beginning of a brand new decade. Exciting stuff! How was your New Year celebrations like? We had a grand old time here in old Sydney town as MrsFrugalSamurai and I spent it with our family, watching the fireworks as they herald in 2020. Importantly, the start of each new year brings with it new year’s resolutions. If you’re like me, resolutions typically involve a more active approach to health and fitness, improved career/finances and learning new things for personal and professional development. But then studies show that 4 out of 5 of us will fail our New Year Resolutions by…
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Millionaire by 30 – How I Did It (Final Part)
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Merry Christmas 2019 everyone! How’s your Christmas going? Plenty of food and good times with your most dearly beloved I hope! MrsFrugalSamurai and I are about to head off to have dinner with the fam fam, but before that, I wanted to share a quick post to continue with this mini-series. If you joined us late, here is Part 1 and Part 2. Part 3 As mentioned at the end of Part 2, I graduated from uni and entered the full-time workforce during the GFC… in banking and financial services no less. What I saw and learnt during this time deserves a post all on its…
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Millionaire by 30 – How I Did It (Part 2)
Reading Time: 3 Minutes Annnnnd we are back peeps! First off, thank you to all those who read the previous post! We had millions of views guys! MILLIONS! Give or take a few numbers here and there. No seriously, thanks all to the wonderful support you have shown me and this blog! Could not have done it without the encouragement and kind words from the community and each one of you! (Looks around the room). But today, today we proceed to part 2 of this mini-series. Which is in response to our dear reader Rennie’s comment: “I am most intrigued by this statement in your ‘About Me’ section: “Recently, I achieved a…
