Do You Shield Your Children From Any Financial Worries Or Discussions? As a parent you want the best for your children and want to ensure they start off and continue on the best financial path. You look back at mistakes you’ve made and want to ensure your children don’t do the same. The thing is […]
June 2018 interesting reads
I don’t know about you but my reading these days is often centred around the internet. Whether that’s reading news articles or the latest posts from my favourite bloggers. And of course there’s the research and general information surfing I tend to do an awful lot of, just because. I thought I would share with […]
Daily Cold Showers And The Financial Independence Movement
The Correlation Between My Daily Cold Shower And People Seeking Financial Independence And Early Retirement (FIRE) You may have picked up a few hints that I can be a frugal weirdo when I want to. I’m the person who has talked about getting rid of toilet paper and using only washable cloths. I”m the female who’s […]
Things I won’t miss about work// Why I will retire early
Why I can’t wait to stop work and what I won’t miss about work When you are aiming to retire early you can spend hours thinking about what you want to retire to. But often the bulk of your thoughts are about what you want to retire from. Some early retirees enjoyed their work but not […]
2 month blog income report, why I earned -£482.53 and gained 5kg!
I don’t have ads so why do a blog income report? I told myself I wouldn’t do a monthly blog income report as many other bloggers do. After all I don’t generate any income because so far I haven’t monetised my website in any way. No ads, no affiliates, no sponsored posts. Not going to […]
Turning 50 – musings with champagne
In which I realise the kids are going to be okay If you didn’t know already, I recently turned 50, happy birthday me! I keep reading about people and their bucket lists: 30 things to do before you turn 30 Run a marathon a month in my 40th year (that’s my crazy cousin) 50 things […]
13 Financial Mistakes I Have Made And How You Can Learn From Them
We’ve all made financial mistakes but I’ve made some real crackers, find out what not to do! If you’ve read some of my posts you’ll know that Mr2p and I are on the cusp of having enough to retire early. Given that we will be retiring in our early 50’s you would be forgiven for thinking I […]
Money Mistakes I Make With My Children – And Why I Must Change
I Wish I Could Learn To Say No To My Daughters – And Not Make So Many Money Mistakes Sometimes I consider myself a lean, mean, money saving machine. I pat myself on the back for my money saving prowess and how I make our money stretch further to enable us to save more toward our […]
Where’s my FIREplace? A journey in finding our forever home
How to choose your forever home – when you have a whole country and a small budget! If you want to retire to another part of the country then how much money you have can be the deciding factor in where you end up. If you have plenty of money, you have many more choices, […]
Happy National Siblings Day!
A Sibling Connection Today I spoke to my brother. Nothing remarkable in that I know. What I enjoyed about that call is that my brother was asking for my help. With something he was upset about. He hadn’t slept much the night before as it was eating away at him. So he called his big […]