Financial Independence, retire early and travel
You have been doing everything right, writing content frequently, promoting your blog on social media and other channels and yet you don’t have a lot of traffic. There are multiple sites that tell you tricks to increase blog traffic – some genuine others sham. You might have heard how writing longer posts and updating fresh…
To be honest, the movie was pathetic but the shooting location of Gerua song left us mesmerised by the beauty of Iceland. So much so, that we visited Iceland a couple of months later. If you are interested, you can have a look at our itinerary and our suggested itinerary here. In this post, we…
I recently read an article, If You Have Savings In Your 20s, You’re Doing Something Wrong. There can be nothing farther from the truth, yet reflect the reality prevalent today. The author essentially says that if you save money early in your 20s, then you are a boring person planning for his/her death. Saving money…
A lot of people in the FIRE community would tell you to get rid of credit card. Hell, even I wrote a post on how you should use cash instead of credit card to save more. But, let me be very clear, I use credit card and maximise my return. The key is to not…
A lot of my friends often ask me, how do I spot and book cheap flights and hotels. I have offered some tips to travel on a budget in a separate post, which covers aspects like when to travel, planning yourself vs agent and how to efficiently use a credit card, in this post I…
Financial independence or FIRE has become a buzzword these days. A lot of people want to retire early. In my first post, I have written about some of the reasons I want to retire early which might be valid for you too. In this post I want to write about some of the other reasons…
Now a days, there is great connectivity from India and because of competition airfare is cheap. There are a lot of amazing cheap destinations from India which you can cover with a budget of under Rs. 1 Lakh. Let us have a look at the 10 countries that you can travel with a budget of…
Apparently, a lot of people have great ideas but they just don’t know how to start a new blog. There are a lot of quick ways to start a blog. For starters you can go to www.blogspot.com and get a free public blog like yourname.blogspot.com. If you want a personalized domain like fireforty.com, then of…
A lot of my readers and friends have asked me how to save more. While I tell them to buy what you need not what you want, it seems like all things these days people want a quick actionable shortcut. Of course, things to understand with thumb rules and shortcuts is that there would be…
We watched the movie De de pyaar de yesterday. The movie is a good watch and is worth the money spent. However, being travel buffs my wife and I were more interested to know which resort or cottage was the shooting location for De de pyaar de. Of course, being the anxious soul that I…