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
1M ago
As mentioned in my last post and as highly recommended by various commenters, I’ve been tracking all my spending. January was what I expected, but partway through February, I realised that there was definitely going to be variance between what …
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Quietly Saving
2M ago
I kind of ‘lost’ two weeks in January while I recovered from my surgery. The procedure went well; painkillers sent my head into woo-woo land and antihistamines I had to take to counter an allergy to antibiotics caused such drowsiness …
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Quietly Saving
3M ago
A week into 2024 and already, the boom we saw at the end of last year is beginning to fray a little around the edges. This is more or less how 2023 started so are we going to get more …
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Quietly Saving
3M ago
Happy New Year! I was in the gym on New Year’s Eve and out litter-picking on New Year’s Day morning – starting as I mean to go on! Anyway, let’s just get the numbers out of the way for 2023! …
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Quietly Saving
4M ago
The full December update will include my progress (or lack of!) over 2023, how I did versus my goals and if the Santa Rally continued until the end of the year. I’ll then be setting some new goals for 2024. …
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Quietly Saving
4M ago
November passed in the blink of an eye and for the first time in a long while, I experienced a few sleepless nights due to workload (and other things). However, I’m not one to dwell on negative stuff so I’ll …
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Quietly Saving
5M ago
Things haven’t been too jolly lately so I thought I’d do a light-hearted interim post to raise the mood, during these dark dreary days. So what do the below companies have in common, aside from being big US corporate behemoths? …
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Quietly Saving
5M ago
A blur of a month. Work continues to be really busy. I’ve now met my new boss and getting used to working with her. I have a load of holidays to use up before the end of the year and …
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Quietly Saving
6M ago
A bit late with this update – my head’s not been quite right as September was a month of quite extreme highs and lows. Highs Work gave us the day off to do the annual charity walk. 62 of us …
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Quietly Saving
7M ago
After a lovely relaxing holiday in August, I was brought back down to earth and reality not by my brimming work inbox but by an email from my current mortgage provider, reminding me that my fixed rate mortgage deal was …
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