Welcome to A Way to Less! We are a professional couple in our early to mid 30’s. We moved to the Caribbean in 2022!

Having been avid readers of various other FIRE/travel related blogs we wanted to document our own journey. Reading other blogs has taught us a lot and we see this as our opportunity to give back to the community! 

We currently work full time as a Chartered Engineer (Mr Way) and part time as a music teacher (Mrs Way). Our interests include travel, food, sport, music, education and of course personal finance! It is very important to us that these interests are pursued alongside saving for FIRE. They must not be sacrificed along the way!

We have reasonably paid professional careers and realise that this puts us in a much better position than many in society. However, we want to show that FIRE is possible while on much more ‘typical’ wages. In fact, we believe that no matter what your financial position, changes can be made in order to improve your outlook for the better. If anything, this is even more important for those on lower incomes!

Throughout the last few years we have learnt and developed numerous ‘hacks’ in order to significantly reduce our spending. We have achieved this while maintaining (and in fact improving) our quality of life. It is our aim to fully document our journey towards FIRE, including regularly summarising our spending, which we think is quite low!

We will also document the decisions we make along the way. We the hope that others can learn from us, and vice versa!  Thank you for dropping by and please get in touch, we would love to hear from you!

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