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It’s Michelle here from FrugalityandFreedom.com, bringing you the latest #AusFIWeekly. Each edition is a handpicked selection of great financial independence links, news, and events from Australia and beyond.
I’m pleased to introduce this week’s guest curators: HisHerMoneyGuide. Take it away!
Hey everyone, we’re Alex and Ellie from HisHerMoneyGuide.com. We’re a pair of 30-somethings from Brisbane looking to FatFIRE before the age of 45. We blog weekly on how we’re combining highly frugal living with investing to reach our lifestyle goals – and we’re now over half way there. Come say hey back to us!
www.HisHerMoneyGuide.com
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Australian Links
Swapping Mindsets from Saving to Spending – HisHerMoneyGuide
“There’s a very real dichotomy between our living expenses today, and what we envisage as our future retirement spending … Today we’re talking about how we think we’ll shift our spending habits from extreme frugality to a FatFIRE, high income lifestyle.”
Growing Financial Independence – CaptainFI
“Growing your own food is also a lot of fun. When done right it doesn’t take much time at all, and planting your seeds can be just like buying your investments every fortnight; do it and then sit back and reap the benefits that just keep coming in time after time.”
How Debt Can Be Good – I Live Off Dividends
“One of the arguments used against debt is that debt reduces freedom because you are obligated to pay it. If you have an obligation, this reduces your freedom. However, just as in personal finance we look at both expenses and income so too when considering personal freedom we should look at both obligations to us and obligations from us.”
How to be a Wonderful Santa with Very Little Money – Burning Desire For Fire
“Fortunately, there are ways to deliver a magical Santa reveal every single year without ruining the family finances every December. The huge advantage that Christmas has over other, more mundane ’emergencies’ is that it happens at the same time every year.”
Australian Events
Adelaide: FI/RE & Mustachian Meetup – Sat 21 Dec 2pm, CBD
Want to meet Michelle in person? This is where you can do it!
Brisbane: Mustachians Australia – MMM Brisbane North and South Christmas Picnic – Sun 15 Dec 1pm, New Farm
Canberra: Playing with FIRE Community Screening + Discussion Panel – Wed 4 Dec 6pm, Bruce
Melbourne: FI Meetup Melbourne – Monthly Wed Night Meetup, Wed 18 Dec 6pm, CBD
Perth: Choose FI Perth – December Meetup, Sun 8 Dec 11am, Kings Park
Sydney: Mr Money Mustache Sydney Tribe – Christmas Picnic, Sat 7 Dec 12.30pm, Inner West
International Links
How Much Is Your Time Worth? – Wealthlenial (US)
“How much is your time worth? Like, really worth? In order to get the most out of life, we need to know what activities are worth focusing on, and which ones we can ignore or hire out … This has plenty of cascading effects into many other areas of life.”
12 Ways To Live More Sustainably / Frugally – Budgets Are Sexy (US)
“Caught a great list of 101 ways to live more sustainably, and while a lot of them were pretty common ones there were a few that got me to stop and ask myself if I could do better…”
Extreme Saver Wants to Skip Retirement So She Can Give Her Money Away – Fox Business (US)
“We have much bigger goals in mind, including philanthropy and helping other people, which is really motivating us to not stop working and continue to grow our wealth for the benefit of others.”
The Dark Side Of Retirement – Retirement Manifesto (US)
“For most of us, retirement is a time of life to look forward to. The land of milk and honey! For others, it’s not. Today, we’re going to look at some of the issues that bring out The Dark Side Of Retirement, and give you tips on how to mitigate the risk of these darker issues negatively impacting your retirement.”
Thanks for selecting this week’s links, Alex and Ellie! Follow their FIRE journey over at HisHerMoneyGuide.com
Do you fancy yourself as a guest curator? Got some other Australian events or favourite blogs to include? Get in touch.
Yours in pursuit of FI,
Michelle @ Frugality and Freedom
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5 comments
Hey, thanks for posting my Santa article.
I’m hoping that there’ll be something that just about everyone can take from it and use.
Merry Christmas and thanks again!
Yes, I like that Alex and Ellie posted this one as the “silly season” kicks off! Good post. Merry Christmas to you too!
Sorry but listing your own post? Come on. I really want to like this weekly newsletter but it doesn’t even feature any of the big sites. I’m sticking with feedly
Hi Raymond, thanks for taking the time to comment. I invite the guest curators to highlight one of their best posts for our readers to enjoy. The Australian FI Weekly aims to highlight the many diverse voices writing great content in our local FI community, including showcasing some lesser-known creators. We can’t link to all the wonderful posts and blogs out there, so think of AusFIWeekly as a complement to other sources, such as personal Feedly RSS subscriptions. Hope you find some new favourite bloggers from those posted here by our fortnightly guest curators and myself.
Thanks for the love!