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Our local community of financial independence bloggers is growing in Australia. Reflecting on the year-that-was provides a solid grounding for making further progress towards future FI goals. Check out the…

I recently invited the Australian FI community to share a personal highlight from the past month. The journey to financial independence can feel long, so it’s important to acknowledge our wins along the way.

I was thrilled to be interviewed recently for the Life Outside The Maze blog, exploring how I’m creating freedom along my financial independence journey.

This week, I asked Twitter what you all wanted to know about housesitting. This handy travel hack has given me 85 nights of free accommodation nights this year – an estimated saving of US$2,975 at US$35 per night. Here are your questions, answered.

With only a week until FinCon19, I’m getting ready for the 8,624 mile journey from my current home in New Zealand to Washington DC. (Yes, I calculated it). I went…

I’m sure I’m not alone when I say: I love a list. I also love discovering new posts, podcasts and news from the ever-expanding finance blogger universe. With these powers…

I was excited to have my first ever guest post published recently, on one of my favourite new blogs: The Fioneers. Want to skip ahead? Read my guest post here.…

I was asked to join the panel for Experian’s regular Twitter #CreditChat this week, on one of my favourite topics: travel savings tips. The hour-long conversation had 920 tweets from…

This May, I put my food budget on lockdown to take on the Live Below The Line charity challenge. Participants eat on $2 per day for 5 days – experiencing…

As you know, an Emergency Fund is a key component of good financial management – a stash of money set aside to deal with the inevitable costly emergencies that come…