FI Score Test (FIST): Where are you on the journey?
(no. 021) Straight to the Point [FIST] = Financial Independence Score Test / FI Score Test. FISc = FI Score – a number to help track your progress towards …
FI Checkpoint 1.0 Voting Results: This is why I blog
(no. 020) Straight to the Point Results from the FI Checkpoint Test (1.0). Sharing the knowledge of FIRE now even more important. FIST (Financial Independence Score Test), aka FI …
FI Checkpoint: Where are you on the journey?
(no. 019) Straight to the Point A progress tracker on your way to FI. I scored 225 points out of 1000. I am currently at checkpoint 8 out of …
FI is NOT about Perfection: Financial Slip-Ups Are Okay!
(no. 014) The Benefit of Ignorance Lesson 1 – Ignorance helps to numb past mistakes made at the time, but hindsight will not make you feel better about. …
Purchase of Added Pension: Worth It?
(no. 012) What Is It? For many public sector workers and I imagine private company pension schemes as well, there would be the option to ‘purchase added pension’. This …
Paying for Financial Advice: Eliminating a £200k Tax Bill
(no. 009) Disclaimer I don’t write a disclaimer for every post because it is in my “About” section and on the bottom of my “Home” page. However, for this …
Live It, Don’t Preach It: Getting Your Partner to Embrace FI
(no. 008) Contain Your Excitement If you’re still hanging around here, then perhaps you’re mildly intrigued by the possibilities of FI or dare I say, even excited. If you’re …
Net Worth – To Share or Not To Share?
(no. 005) Where are my numbers already? I have deliberately put off completing my FI-Ometer because I’ve been thinking carefully about whether or not I should share our net …
Living Optimistically Through FI
(no. 004) Hope to Live Tomorrow I often hear people say what’s the point of all this. I could end up dying the next day and haven’t even enjoyed …
Our FI Plan
(no. 003) Our Overall Plan The diagram below shows our overall plan (*note that technically, the state and work pension is not until infinity). As you can see, as …