Welcome to the Money Flamingo blog!
Money Flamingo is an Australian Financial Independence blog with a twist.
We’ve come up with our own approach to Financial Independence – Flamingo FI – which allows us to leave the rat race years earlier than we could if we followed the “traditional” path to FI.
This blog chronicles the final 1000 days of our journey to freedom.
We hope you’ll join us for the ride!
Project 1000: July 2020 – 198 Days to Freedom
We are getting close! Only 198 days left until the end of Project 1000! At this stage our numbers look quite promising. If things don’t go terribly pear-shaped over the…
Project 1000: June 2020 – 240 Days to Freedom
Welcome to our June update! The markets have continued to recover over the last month. As you will see below our nest egg (fuelled by our saving efforts) has done…
Project 1000: May 2020 – 261 Days to Freedom
Things are starting to look up! The markets have recovered somewhat over the last month and Australia has done a stellar job at containing the virus. Of course we are…
Project 1000: April 2020 – 289 Days to Freedom
Sorry to keep everyone waiting for our April update! I’ve received quite a few messages over the last couple of weeks from readers asking about an update, some even suggesting…
Project 1000: March 2020 – 331 Days to Freedom
Things have gotten interesting the last couple of weeks, haven’t they? The coronavirus is spreading across the globe and people are stockpiling toilet paper. When I turn on the news,…
Project 1000: February 2020 – 359 Days to Freedom
January was another solid month for us. Our Flamingo FI nest egg grew from 74.7% to 78.3% of its target size! I can really see how our nest egg is picking up speed now that we have a decent amount of investments…