Of recent days and months the Thought Police are out and about, questioning whether once you have achieved Financial Independence (FI) and chosen to Retire Early (RE), hence FIRE, you should never do anything at all that earns money, ever again. Really?? This post has been inspired by a great post I read recently by… Continue reading Retired or not Retired?
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Happy Birthday Cracking Retirement
It is Cracking Retirement’s 1st birthday. On the 18th September this blog turned 1. If I liken it to human development, it is at best a toddler, just learning how to make its voice heard and starting to walk unaided. As some of you may have noticed from my post earlier this week, I am in… Continue reading Happy Birthday Cracking Retirement
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
2017 Dream Big
2017 Dream Big. 2017 has started differently for me. It is my first New Year in the Southern Hemisphere. So it started 12 hours earlier than usual, given I am New Zealand rather than UK. The big bonus is, it is a lot warmer than Edinburgh, so that is a great start. We are on holiday, the… Continue reading 2017 Dream Big