Reducing the discretionary spend – June 2021 results and overall year

June 2021 I'm a little later than I would normally be with this update as I was waiting for my final electricity bill to come in. I changed providers right near the end of June, and it took a couple of weeks for my previous provider to send through the finalised account. While the overall … Continue reading Reducing the discretionary spend – June 2021 results and overall year

Net worth update June 2021

On 25th June I posted this on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FIREforOneAus/status/1408172903447732224?s=20 I don't think I've ever seen anything in the media before about the mean net wealth of Australian adults (or maybe I've just never noticed/paid attention), but now that it's net worth update time for me, I'm pleased to see that I'm ahead of the curve, … Continue reading Net worth update June 2021

It’s my 2-year blogaversary!

It's hard to believe that I've been at this blogging thing for two years already. When I first decided to start a blog about my path to FIRE it was very much a bit of a suck-it-and-see exercise; a post on another blog, Australian Dividend Investor (sadly no longer being published), about why you should … Continue reading It’s my 2-year blogaversary!

Reducing the discretionary spend – March 2021 results

Well, only one category is in the black this month; the car category continues to be underspent due to reduced commuting. However, although there's a lot of red showing on my budget's Variance table (the one that shows me how much I'm over or under budget for each primary category), the amounts are relatively small … Continue reading Reducing the discretionary spend – March 2021 results