-Written by Steph
It’s always nice to look back at the path that’s brought you to today. This post is a brief summary of the year by year process of the first half of our early retirement journey, detailing that slow, sucky process that everyone hates – the waiting time where your net worth increases are almost entirely from savings, and your investment returns are minimal. Luckily, it only lasts a few years! Here’s where we’ve come from so far… Continue reading
-Written by Steph
Given the current uptick in readership of our blog, along with the overall increased interest in financial independence and early retirement (FIRE), it seems timely to do a post that thoroughly describes the exact system we use in our pursuit. We’ve fine-tuned it over the years, and have come up with a strategy that allows us to build wealth quickly on average incomes and with minimal ongoing effort. Here it is! Continue reading
-Written by Steph
Our investments have been kicking ass this year, so here we are!
250,000 delicious white chocolate chip cookies, to match our $250,000 net worth. That is all.
-Written by Steph
Well, another arbitrary chunk of year has passed. Vancouver is currently buried in snow, which makes this an excellent time to hole up and do a life update.
Net Worth: $247,369
Latest cool (hot) place we’ve been:
Latest awesome hiding spot I found:
-Written by Cel
One of our local stations, Global News, has a segment called “Consumer Matters”. They were doing a piece about groceries, as food prices are expected to rise in Canada. One of their reporters found our blog and got in touch with us about starring in this piece.
The end result – we were on the 6 o’clock news today! Here is a link to the video (about 3 minutes long):
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