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Discover how personal vulnerability to financial BS can affect your financial security

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The Accumulator celebrates his one-year FIRE anniversary

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On the plateau

Passive investing is all excitement at the start, but then you hit a plateau and there’s nothing do but keep at it.

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This guide to personal finance for immigrants is by The Learner from Team Monevator. Come back every Monday for another fresh perspective. A new adventure? Relocating for work? I recently moved to the UK, too, from Australia. That meant rebooting my financial life. Moving country is a huge job and so I’ve prepared the following [...]

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Three months in, is The Accumulator bathing in FI bliss or cracking up with existential angst?

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How to set your children up to be financially free in the future.

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Personal finance is at heart a language, that you can pick up like any other…

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Covid restrictions were easing, and I was mildly thrilled to be in the garden of some dear friends – a couple I’ve known for decades. Thanks to lockdown building works, their house had grown since I’d last seen them. So had their twin boys. But my friends still had some personal growth to do. They’ve [...]

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The best person to ensure your mortgage is always paid is staring at you from the mirror…

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The Accumulator’s seven year FIRE journey condensed into seven minutes (ish).

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The Accumulator sets alight the torch of freedom and goes full FIRE. TLDR: he’s left work for good.

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Money is stored energy

I’ve thought about money so long this way I assumed everybody did.

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If you’re ever assailed by doubts in the night then this post is for you.

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The Accumulator shares his financial origin story and the trauma that put him on the path to FI.

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Don’t waste money buying expensive gifts

You can give your credit card a break by giving less expensive presents, but there’s a catch – they need to *mean* more…

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What if FIRE doesn’t work?

The Accumulator rolls out his battle plan to keep the faith when he goes full FIRE.

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