They say that the one thing you can't buy is time. But does financial independence and retiring early test that adage?

I had a genius early retirement idea. The plus points are overwhelming, but is Sally excited about it too, or is it her idea of hell?

How much it costs a couple to live a balanced early retirement - not frugal but not extravagant either.

Isn't it interesting how different people do different things? How about Mr Bo Dangle dropping his $30K emergency fund in to stock is March!

Last week, Sally asked me what I want to do? I don't think she meant it as a serious or deep question but I did have a real answer: I don't want to be boring...

A Rudyard Kipling poem begins: "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs...". During these Covid-19 times, keeping my head means sticki...

"I wonder where the FIRE folks are now?!" is what someone sarcastically Tweeted. What a shame that some seem to get a kick out of seeing other people's dream...

Our world seems to be in a tough space right now, so I hope everyone is complying with the restrictions in place where you live. In France, it's lockdown day...

Only a few words from me (David) today, which are to introduce Sally's first blog post. There are plenty of blogs written by fans of FIRE being read by peopl...

I didn't want to write about Covid-19, the new Coronavirus. I prefer to think about more positive things, even if that does sound a bit like burying my head ...

I always thought keeping a diary or a journal sounded pretty boring. Then, when I retired early, I started my blog, which turns out to be kind of similar to ...

I've just read Freedom is Groovy's post about Five Things Geoarbitrage Can Do to Improve Your Life. I can't argue with any of the five positives that Mr Groo...

Our February costs were going pretty well until I bought some ski touring gear. How much can some skis, binding, boots, poles and skins cost? The answer is €...

We've had friends to stay - one thing I've learned is that if you want visitors, move to a ski resort, you suddenly become much more popular. I'm sure they'r...

I couldn't be more pleased that I made the decision to retire early. The first three years have been great and I can't imagine stepping back to my old corpor...

Costs I suspect that after Christmas, most people hope for a less expensive January to get the finances back on track, an idea we seem to have completely ign...

Last week's post was about lifestyle even though I knew that meant it would get less reads - finance focused post are much more popular. Despite being less r...

Do Financial Independence and Retire Early blogs concentrate too much on the finance side of the equation? My instinct is that they do focus a lot on the fin...

What 2020 will bring is up to me. Maybe it was the same when I worked but it didn't always feel that way. I spent more time in the office than anywhere else ...

Before I retired, the calendar moving from one year to the next wasn't a source of excitement for me. Work was what I spent most of my waking hours doing and...