Month: July 2021

Hypocrisy and Manipulation – Is the FIRE Movement Corrupt?

More and more finfluencers are joining the Financial Independence Movement and many are in it to make money and get rich quickly. Is FIRE Community corrupt?

I started this blog just over three years ago to chronicle the last leg of our journey and share our approach to Financial Independence. In 2019 our first child was born and life got busy. When I went back to work in late 2019 I stopped reading other personal finance blogs. We had another baby, … Read more

Semi-FI Update – Q2/2021 – Coasting to Financial Independence

Our current (July 2021) progress on our Coasting FI (similar to Barista FIRE) journey from Flamingo FI to FIRE. We are now semi-retired and have stopped investing.

Where have the last three months gone? How is it July already? I feel like we are stuck in this Covid infinity loop with no end in sight. Anyway, it’s time for another quarterly update. I’ve broken the update up into three parts – a life update, a financial update, and a quick blog update. … Read more