It’s time for my 2022 Personal Review – what a year it has been! First and foremost, Happy New Year to you all! Hopefully 2023 brings you health, happiness and prosperity. My 2021 review promised that the blog would become a priority for us again. Unfortunately, this hasn’t happened yet, due to the chaos of …
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2021 Financial Review
Here it is! Our financial review for 2021. Below, we’ll detail how we each got on this year, including progress towards our FIRE goals. If you want to see a more personal review of 2021, see this post by Mr Way. Mr Way As far as my FIRE journey is concerned, it has been another steady year …
2021 Personal Review – Mr Way
First and foremost, Happy New Year to you all! Hopefully 2022 brings you health, happiness and prosperity. It’s time for my 2021 Personal Review – so much has happened this year! Unfortunately, the blog has taken a back seat because we’ve had so much going on in our lives. Fingers crossed we’ll have more free …
2020 Financial Review
Here it is! Our financial review for 2020. Below, we'll detail how we each got on this year, including progress towards our FIRE goals. If you want to see a more personal review of 2020, see this post by Mr Way. Mr Way As far as my FIRE journey is concerned, it has been steady …
2020 Personal Review – Mr Way
Well, what a year! It's finally time for my 2020 Personal Review, and boy has it been a crazy one. Nobody saw the global pandemic coming, but there have been so many other things going on in my life too! It has been pretty manic at times and hard to process everything that has happened. …
The Benefit of Salary Sacrifice Pensions
I recently went through an interesting exercise at work and wanted to share the findings here. Essentially, my company don’t offer salary sacrifice pension contributions and I wanted to persuade them to consider it! As you can probably tell, I'm bit of a personal finance nerd! I created a document showing the benefits of salary …
Remaining Positive
Our Coronavirus Journey – Part 4 The Coronavirus outbreak will doubtless have a devastating impact on many companies and individuals. But I'm remaining positive on the longer term outlook! There are many reasons to be positive amongst the gloom. Hopefully this post can instil a bit of hope that things will be OK! Stock Market Most companies will be …
Why We’re 100% in Equities
Our investment strategy has always been 100% equities, with no allocation to bonds or other asset classes. There are several reasons we came to this conclusion, which we want to cover in this post. When we say 100% equities, this is within our actual FI funds, which are housed in our ISA and pension accounts. …
Seeing Opportunity in Adversity
Our Coronavirus Journey – Part 2 As we discussed in Our Coronavirus Journey – Part 1, we’ve been gradually adjusting to the changes in or lives since the Coronavirus outbreak started. While many of the implications are negative, we’re seeing opportunity in the adversity. It would be easy to become overwhelmed and give up in such challenging …
Our Coronavirus Journey – Part 1
In this article we want to give you an update on how the Coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent Government restrictions have affected all aspects of our lives. This is Part 1 of what we expect to be a series exploring our Coronavirus journey! Miss Way’s Work As a peripatetic music teacher travelling around many schools, Miss …