2025 Wrap up
Happy holidays! I hope everyone enjoyed their breaks and spent time with their families. 2025 was a great year in terms of the stock market. Just about everything was up! On the blogging front, it …
FIRE
FIRE = Financial Independence Retire Early
A large part of this website is about financial independence retire early (FIRE) and our FIRE journey. Topics include – What does financial independence retire early mean, How to achieve financial independence retire early, Lessons learned during our FIRE journey.
Let’s talk about FIRE!
Would You Take $2 Million for 60-hour Work Weeks? Answering Life’s Toughest Money Dilemmas
The other day, we were playing That Escalated Quickly, in which one player would pick a question card, the other players would pick out a number card from 1 to 10 and come up with …
Early Retirement Q&A with Dividend Daddy
The financial independence retire early (FIRE) community is a very supportive and tight-knit one. Because the community is made up of folks who have different backgrounds and different ages, it’s very diverse (not just Caucasian …
Avoiding 25 big investment & retirement mistakes
Before I started blogging, I used to read many different personal finance and investing blogs. Over the years, some of these blogs have disappeared or changed ownership. One blog that is still around that I …
DIY Wealth Canada Podcast: Mark Seed on FIWOOT, Withdrawal Strategies, and More
I have followed Mark Seed’s blog, My Own Advisor, for many years. The two of us happen to share very similar investing philosophies. Therefore, it’s not a surprise that Mark and I often discuss investing, …
Reconsidering RRIF utilization in early retirement
As you get closer to retirement, you most likely will spend more and more time crunching numbers and doing retirement income planning. I previously wrote about how to convert RRSP to RRIF and the rules …
Early retirement planning – steps we are doing and planning to do
Earlier this year, I wrote about stepping away from full-time work at the end of 2026 or early 2027. The idea is to either retire early and focus on my hobbies and passions, or transition …