Taking a Sabbatical to test Coast FI
I’ve got some big news. As those on my newsletter found out last week, I will be taking a 1 year sabbatical to test Coast FI. After a rough September of juggling working full-time in my day job, uncertainty with our oldest’s school with the pandemic, a strike in our youngest’s daycare system and various […]
ModestMillionaires is 3 Years Old!
I’m so excited that my little blog is turning 3 years old today! If I would have known how much goodness documenting our journey towards financial independence would bring to my life I would have started it years before. 2019 on the blog: This was, by far, my most consistent year of writing. In 2017 […]
Questions to focus on enjoying the journey to Financial Independence
One of the main reasons I maintain this blog is to make sure I explore and document all my attempts to continue enjoying the journey on our path towards financial independence. I do not want to dedicate those years to solely focus on finding happiness once we would be able to quit our jobs, I […]
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 […]
Changes Ahead at Work
I received the news this week that a big change was imminent in my work organization: my current manager will be moving to another role. I’m normally not that worried about changes happening at work yet this one is different. During these last few years on our journey to reach financial independence, I’ve been focusing […]
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 […]
Accepting the Boring Parts of the Financial Independence Journey
It’s the third time I’ve checked the spreadsheet today, tweaking a few numbers here and there, but nope, not much of a difference on our timeline towards our financial independence. This usually hits during a more boring workday, or when I’m stuck in procrastination mode. Thankfully, with time, I’ve gotten much better at noticing and […]
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 […]
Blogging about our journey to FI in French and English
As some of you may have noticed, every article that I post comes out both in French and English. Indeed, before I even launched this website, I knew I would want it to be bilingual. There are a few reasons for this, some selfless but some others admittedly self-serving. First let me quickly lay […]
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 […]
