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You are here: Home1 / Blog Posts2 / Inspiration3 / Financial Freedom

Financial freedom is amazing. It’s the freedom that comes with knowing all of your outgoings and bills are covered without you having to go to work.

Lots of folks reach financial independence when they retire, we reached it in 2015 when we were 43 years old.

Here we round up how we did it, and what we have learned from retiring early.

Financial Stress-Test: Early Retirement Cash Flow in a Pandemic

May 30, 2020
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Retiring early means we're 100% responsible for funding our lives. The coronavirus pandemic is stress-testing our ability to live this lifestyle.
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The Luck Which Helped Us Retire Aged 43

April 27, 2020
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We retired at 43, and we like to think there was no luck involved, but there was. This post looks at how we got lucky achieving financial freedom.
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The Decade That Changed Our Lives!

December 27, 2019
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This New Year will end in a zero, an even cleaner page than usual. It got us thinking about how much our lives have changed in this last decade.
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Into Our Fifth Year of Financial Independence

October 24, 2019
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Life and financial freedom lessons we've learned as a couple after retiring aged 43 and travelling Europe and North Africa by motorhome.
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Funding a Long-Term Motorhome Tour, Buying a Dream

August 29, 2019
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Ideas, hints and tips for funding (paying for or financing) a long-term motorhome or campervan tour of the UK or Europe or going full-time.
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Lessons Learned from 5 Years of Stock Market Investing

August 12, 2019
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Three years ago we wrote about how we were risking our money…
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Is Our Crazy Financial Freedom Experiment Working?

January 13, 2019
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With another year of financial freedom under our belts, we look at the headline figures from our spending and income in 2018.
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Early Retirement aged 43 – Chatting About 3 Years of Financial Freedom

November 26, 2018
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Ju and I effectively retired 3 years ago, aged 43. We made a…
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Into Our Fourth Year of Financial Freedom – The Story so Far

September 7, 2018
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Just over three years ago, a tenant moved into the house we'd…
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