FIRE

The Rule of 300 is a quick and dirty shortcut to estimating how much money you’ll need saved to meet your income needs.

This month an investment manager tells us how he’s saved and invested his way to financial freedom by 40…

We meet an early retiree who hit the jackpot when hard work paid off big time…

He’s back not at it again

Is FIRE a middle-class game or can everyone have a go?

Some of today’s eccentrics will be tomorrow’s mainstream punters…

Three years in and TA has fallen off the FIRE wagon.

We check in on Jake, the Monevator reader who decamped to the East Anglia to regain control of life

A rapid fire rundown of how to calculate when you’ll achieve financial independence. The same plan could be adapted to any long-term financial goal.

Should older FIRE-ees stop preaching to a younger generation who cannot take this path?

Two years into FIRE and reality intervenes to make it a year to forget.

Mrs Accumulator reveals the unvarnished truth about FIRE and life with TA…

The lengths The Accumulator will go to just to avoid going back to work during a cost of living crisis. This is hardcore.

Kicking off our first interview with Monevator readers who’ve achieved financial independence…

Inflation is rampant and a convenient scapegoat is needed. I know, let’s blame early retirees!

The Accumulator celebrates his one-year FIRE anniversary

You retire and the stock market crashes. What should you do?

Why it’s risky to assume retirement spending declines as you age.

Does spending actually drop in retirement? Well, does it?

TA comes out of the water closest in this no-holes barred FIRE update.

The Accumulator is six months into FIRE. Has he lost the will to live yet? Or is that just his friends because he’s so unbearably chirpy now?

Save more. Suffer less.

Spend the day locked in the office dealing with BS? Or out on a bike riding in the sunshine? FIRE gives you the power to decide…

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

How to build an FI plan that copes with bill shock.

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

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

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

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

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

The Accumulator enters the promised land after many years of wandering the desert. But does he really like milk and honey?

The FIRE debate goes into its final round. Will TI and TA make up or go out in a blaze of grenade-lobbing glory? Does this question even need answering?

The Accumulator reacts to The Investor’s withering fire about FIRE. Meanwhile, TDM starts a peace and love movement to try and keep Monevator together.

The Investor rips into the FIRE community, The Accumulator and monks.

Our FIRE debate heats up as The Investor threatens The Accumulator with his elephant.

The Monevator team debate FIRE. Is it worth the pain? Is it more myth than reality? The Investor, The Accumulator and The Details Man make their case.

David Sawyer has sold thousands of copies of RESET since he first wrote about it for us. What has it taught him?

Status anxiety is the enemy of financial independence. Here’s some high-calibre ammo to help you FIRE back.

Brain food to sustain fellow FIRE travellers who are starting to flag.

Stuck in a rut? Want to change up your job, your finances – and most of all your future? Guest author David Sawyer has a few ideas…

As yet another would-be extreme early retiree has qualms about jumping off the end of the diving board, it’s worth considering why…

Finding it tough to reach financial independence? A fellow, weary traveller reaches out.