Quietly Saving
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I'm Weenie. In 2014, I came across the term FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early). I set up this blog, devised a plan, began to save more and invest.
I try to balance enjoying my life in the present while attempting to plan for the future. My plan is to be in a position to not have to work full-time (or at all) by 2025 (or 2024, depending on whether I want to do 'one more..
Quietly Saving
3w ago
This month saw me and my sister attending an uncle’s funeral – he’d died at the grand old age of 91. Although a sad affair, it was an opportunity to catch up with extended members of the family (first cousins). …
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Quietly Saving
1M ago
The other day, I got this: What rules did I break? Say what???! I wouldn’t know how to even begin to do any sort of ‘evading’ if someone was paying me to do so! All I do on my account …
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Quietly Saving
1M ago
January seemed like a long month though not in a bad way, as it was punctuated with several social outings with friends and colleagues, and a couple of enjoyably quiet weekends. One of my minor goals is to complete a …
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Quietly Saving
3M ago
Happy New Year! I was in the gym before 9am this morning – starting as I (hopefully) mean to go on, but I’m still a little jetlagged so am waking up at ridiculous hours. Hope you all had an enjoyable …
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Quietly Saving
3M ago
The following is just a mish-mash of recent thoughts/draft posts I’ve had, to make up an ‘all filler, no killer’ kind of final post for the year! Not-So-Glad Tidings Tis supposed to be the season to be jolly and all …
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Quietly Saving
4M ago
I mentioned at the end of my last post that I had family staying with me in November. As it was their half-term holidays, I took some time off work and had my niece and nephew for a few days …
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Quietly Saving
5M ago
Another month, another Prime Minister in charge. Let’s hope he’s in there long enough for Mrs Sunak to be choosing the wallpaper, so things can calm down a bit. A mostly uneventful month, with quiet weekends spent tidying up round …
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Quietly Saving
5M ago
A recent post on Monevator gave a review of Eat The Rich, a 3-parter on Netflix which documented some of the insane and crazy events in 2021 around the GameStop meme stock, events which momentarily shook the US hedge funds …
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Quietly Saving
6M ago
September was a month of mixed emotions – sadness and joy. Sadness I felt sadness over the death of her Majesty – I’ve always had a fondness for the Queen and needless to say, it brought back the raw grief …
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Quietly Saving
7M ago
I’ve not had a proper break from work in a while and my brain was in dire need of some R&R so I decided to use up some holidays this month. For the first few days, I had absolutely nothing …
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