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!
BOOOOM! We are done! 0 days to Freedom! (Project 1000)
We’ve done it!!! 🙂 Exciting news – after almost 5 years chasing Flamingo FI we have officially crossed the finish line and achieved our goal!
Project 1000: September 2020 – 135 Days to Freedom
We are getting so close! As you’ll see below we got so so close to hitting our Flamingo FI goal last month. But at the time of writing in early…
Project 1000: August 2020 – 177 Days to Freedom
Another month, another update. Time seems to fly at the moment. Only 177 days left until the end of Project 1000! Our numbers continue to look good. But as I…
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…