The Challenge of Planning the Transition to FI
I’ve often written about how I try to make the best of the journey to financial independence by integrating my core values and related activities in my present. While all of this sounds lovely and wise, in practice it can get really challenging and even more so when it comes to planning the transition to […]
Practicing our FI Life
Whenever we take time off from work I like to think that we are practicing our FI life. What is our ideal lifestyle if work becomes optional for us? What is the right balance of activities that makes everyone in the family happiest and feeling fulfilled? I know I’m not the only one doing this […]
Talking openly about my Financial Independence Plan
For the first time, I talked openly with close friends about our plans to have the option to retire in our mid-thirties. I did highlight caveats and defined it as the fact that we are saving enough to technically create our own “retirement fund“ allowing us to be free to do whatever we want to […]
My First FinCon Experience : Thoughts and Emotions, So Many Emotions!
A little less than a year ago, I did a crazy thing. I bought a ticket to go to FinCon19 without any idea if I could or would attend. You see, I had just recently started interacting with the personal finance community on twitter and FinCon18 was going down and seemed amazing. I watched on […]
Mid-2019 Spending & Investments Review
With June already a full month behind us, it’s the perfect time for a mid-year review of the Modest Millionaires family progress in terms of spending and investments for 2019. Overview of our objectives for 2019 spending For 2019, in our 2018 spending & investment review we set a target level of annual spending of […]
The FIRE Drill Podcast Interview
That’s right, you will get to listen to me talk this week in a new episode on one of my favorite podcasts: FIRE Drill Podcast with J from Millennial Boss. I was pretty nervous about this. Nervous enough to postpone my interview several months after having been invited. Part of the reason to delay was […]
Playing with FIRE + International Financial Independence Awareness Day
As a Kickstarter perk, I got to watch the debut of the Playing with FIRE documentary. I actually watched it twice to really get my thoughts sorted on how it made me feel. Indeed, this is a movement I love dearly and I am happy that a more mainstream way of presenting it will become […]
2018 Spending & Investments Review
The past year was quite busy for our little family, as briefly described in our last article celebrating 2 years of blogging on ModestMillionaires. Let’s get into the financial side of 2018 with a detailed review of our spending and investments for that year. Overview of our spending This year we also celebrated the first […]
Mid-Year Progress for 2017
Here we are already in July, with half of the year 2017 behind us. This is an excellent time to do a mid-year review of the Modest Millionaires family progress in terms of spending for 2017. I will also use this as an opportunity to expose our spending for 2015 and 2016. Our expenses for […]
Why the Modest Millionaires are Reaching for Financial Independence
Many have questions with regards to our 2025 Plan for reaching financial independence at a young age. Indeed it is quite out of the ordinary to choose to live a more modest life in order to reach the financial freedom that will allow us to choose to work or not way before the average age […]
