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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.

Should We Stay, or Should We Go?

April 8, 2018
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Back in 2011 when we published a video of Charlie going through…
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Eight Months at Home, and the Road Calls!

March 22, 2018
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Would you believe it, we've been home in the UK now for eight months! Zagan's wheels rolled to a halt in his storage space up the road back in July 2017.
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Accidental Asset Class Diversification… Or Just a Mess…?

March 12, 2018
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Whenever I feel the urge to read blogs and books on financial independence, I'm struck by how much of a hodgepodge our passive income assets really are!
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I’m financially free in my mid-40s, but I’m missing work, why?

March 7, 2018
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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.
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Our Second Full Year of Financial Freedom – The Numbers

January 15, 2018
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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

January 2, 2018
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A few months back we were contacted by a nice chap called Tom…
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8 Working Hours Left to Go, Again

November 29, 2017
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I've one more working day to go and, in theory at least, I never…
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5 Week Countdown to Retirement Number 3

October 17, 2017
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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.

October 7, 2017
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Zagan the motorhome has been somewhat neglected of late while…
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