For the bulk of our FI journey, the Minimalist in the City household is predominantly a dual income one. We have budgeted and managed our expenses such that we are able to live off one income, saving and investing the other income stream thus far. Our savings rate is higher than 50% and our lifestyle is…
200 days has passed since our FI declaration in October 2017 and life has never been better. Technically, it also means that we are 800 days away from our FI target. We have yet to establish concrete plans as to what we will be doing once we reach that point but with sufficient FU money in…
December is the month that we hosted a baby shower for our son, Ashton. I’m also clearing most of my annual leaves so as to take a breather from work and also spend some quality time with the family.
2017 is coming to an end and as we welcome the New Year, I thought it would be good to consolidate some of our thoughts for the year, and some of the key takeaways that we will bring with us to 2018. Health In terms of my health, i went for a health checkup earlier…
THE BIG PLAN Exactly 5 years ago, I came out with a big plan to aggressively save a considerable portion of our combined income to invest and grow our stock portfolio with a focus on dividend stocks. The objective is to have enough dividends generated from our stock portfolio to cover our annual expenses in…
Justin from Root of Good recently published an article on how his family of 5 managed to live for under US$40,000 a year. Dave and I are followers of his blog and needless to say, we were extremely impressed on how they managed to achieve this, despite the fact that they have 3 kids (yes…
We started on this blog somewhere in September 2016 and we managed to garner quite a bit of followers since then (we are currently top of the list in Google search if you type in “minimalist in the city” which we think is quite an achievement as our blog is relatively new). As for the…
