The Budget 2014 – Does anyone really care?
Seeing as I practice the Low Info Diet I try to stay away from mainstream news hype as much as possible, but it was hard to get away from the whole yearly budget shenanigans that took place...
View ArticleBlogFAQ with Financially Free by Forty
Happy Tuesday to you all! Today we have the second ever incarnation of the BlogFAQ feature, with none other than Huw from Financially Free by Forty. There have been more and more UK based FI blogs...
View ArticleLife Lessons with Dr Bob Rotella the Golf Psychologist
Some excellent lessons in life and dare I say, inspiring words, have come from an unlikely and somewhat esoteric source this week – a book on the psychology of golf that a friend lent me. The book in...
View ArticleThoughts on nearly losing my sight in one eye
OK first of all I admit it… dramatic title alert! Seeing as we are encouraged as bloggers to do such things to get you reading our posts, I thought why not give it a whirl? The short story is though;...
View ArticleEarly Retirement, Early Mid-Life Crisis?
Just a quick “re-blog” of an interesting article I stumbled upon on theatlantic.com: The Real Roots of Midlife Crisis It’s quite long so here is the tl;dr summary in bullet point form: There is a...
View ArticleHappynomics and The End Of The World As We Know It
Happynomics/Happinomics, or the economics of happiness, or as real economists like to call it: “the economics of subjective well-being“, is a very important topic to your average Firestarter, because...
View ArticleCombining and Tracking Couple’s Finances, More Moneydashboard tips, plus free...
To run a tight financial ship in any relationship you both have to be transparent in what you are spending, have similar long term financial goals, and hopefully have the same level of frugality...
View Articlethe grass is always greener syndrome
Do you suffer from this? I certainly do! The grass is always greener syndrome, in case you have been living under a rock for most of your life, can be described simply as always wanting what someone...
View Articlemy first two weeks – the highs and lows of semi-employment
It’s my first day back at “proper” work today so thought it would be a good way to summarise how the first two weeks of semi-employment, self-employment, mini-FI, a little taste of freedom, or...
View Articlefebruary 2016 update – and then there were three
Woah! Long time no see people! Where have I been you might be asking? Well as the title and picture above have probably already given away, baby TFS has made a bit of an unexpected early appearance! So...
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