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.

I’m financially free in my mid-40s, but I’m missing work, why?

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We're into our third year of financial freedom now, aged 45, and I'm finding my thoughts increasingly drawn towards returning back to full time work.

Our Second Full Year of Financial Freedom – The Numbers

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We've just completed the second full year of our strange life…
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Our 30 Year Retirement – Inspiring folks via the BBC

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A few months back we were contacted by a nice chap called Tom…

8 Working Hours Left to Go, Again

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I've one more working day to go and, in theory at least, I never…

5 Week Countdown to Retirement Number 3

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Our lives are more than a bit weird you know. In 5 weeks (give…
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Our break from motorhome life.

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Zagan the motorhome has been somewhat neglected of late while…
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Stepping Back into The Matrix, a Letter from Dusseldorf

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So, I'm back in, albeit temporarily. Life at the moment is pretty weird, as it would be for someone stepping back into The Matrix I guess?

Email to a Never-Before Self-Investor

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Following beers with friends the conversation turned to investing. The currently invest in a fund. I sent this email to them the following morning.
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Early Retirement Ethical Arguments

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I welcome constructive criticism, and here I've run through some of the ethical arguments I've come across against early retirement.