Woah! Long time no see people! Where have I been you might be asking? Well as the title and picture above have probably already given away, baby TFS has made a bit of an unexpected early appearance! So to say […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s my first day back at “proper” work today so thought it would be a good way to summarise how the first two weeks of semi-employment, self-employment, mini-FI, a little taste of freedom, or whatever you want to call […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello there! While we were on the subject of motivation the other day (and it’s good to know I’m not the only one), I got thinking about my goals list, and the fact that I haven’t done a goals update for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seeing as I did a 6 month review of our spending in January for the last half of 2014, which was very eye opening indeed, and forced us to really buck our ideas up and put in a few […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, I missed my blogiversary again this year, only by a few days a week and a few days though, rather than the few weeks I missed it by last year 🙂 Yes theFIREstarter blog is now 2 years old! What […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A close work friend of mine revealed he was “offered” redundancy today. It was a shock to both him and I, but deep down we (should) know this could happen to any of us at any time. Anyway we […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happynomics/Happinomics, or the economics of happiness, or as real economists like to call it: “the economics of subjective well-being“, is a very important topic to your average Firestarter, because ultimately that is what becoming financially independent via the route of frugality […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just a quick “re-blog” of an interesting article I stumbled upon on theatlantic.com: The Real Roots of Midlife Crisis It’s quite long so here is the tl;dr summary in bullet point form: There is a large body of research to show […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I came across an intriguing term the other day while on my internet travels: “Scanner”. Someone followed me on twitter which led me to their blog, so naturally I did one of the first things we all do which […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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