Category: Retirement

1, 2, 3, RETIRE – Ready or not

For many people, retirement comes along whether you want it or not. However, recently some are choosing a different path. Some in the FIRE community (Financially Independent, Retire Early) are choosing to continue at work whether they are financially independent or not. I read an article recently by Monevator on why the FIRE acronym no… Continue reading 1, 2, 3, RETIRE – Ready or not

Top 3 Things For a Great Retirement

What are the top 3 things for a Great Retirement? I started writing a post about the Top 10 Things About Retirement, then it became 5 things, then I realised so many of the things needed several of the others, that the list boiled down to just 3 things. I started my retirement journey in… Continue reading Top 3 Things For a Great Retirement

2017 – Half Year Checkpoint

Goodness. 2017 is half over. How did that happen? Time for my 2017 Half Year Checkpoint. I started 2017 with some Big Dreams  and I reported progress at the end of March 2017 So how are we getting on now? Increase Net Worth by 10-11% Our net worth has increased by 4.64% for the half year. Not… Continue reading 2017 – Half Year Checkpoint

Edinburgh Rain

Edinburgh Rain. It is ‘summer’ here. Today it is the 29th June. We are 1 week after the longest day. It is 11:30am. I have the light on.  The rain is pouring down. This is the second day this week we have torrential rain. Basically it is horrible. On Tuesday it also rained until late afternoon.… Continue reading Edinburgh Rain

Our Drawdown Strategy

We are already retired, so maybe it’s a bit late to be talking about our Drawdown Strategy. But the answer is, if we had not had a Drawdown strategy then we would have been foolish to retire. Retirement Money Strategy When we did the initial sums for early retirement about 8-10 years ago, we had… Continue reading Our Drawdown Strategy