Here is my personal list of interesting blogs about the early retirement concept and FIRE – Financial Independence Retire Early. The authors of these websites focus on proven ways leading to retiring early in your 30s and 40s to help you become financially independent to live life on your own terms.
The websites on the following list are my favorite blogs about financial freedom, road to wealth, having enough money to retire any time you want, early retirement in different parts of the world, becoming so wealthy that you do not have to work anymore, getting rich and starting your next new life, etc.
These blogs truly are the best of the best when it comes to early retirement and financial independence! I hope you will like them too.
Financial Samurai
Financial Samurai delves deeper into investing, real estate, retirement planning, career strategies, and more, so we can all achieve financial independence sooner, rather than later. As one of the modern-day pioneers of the FIRE movement since 2009, I want to help you achieve your financial goals so you can do more of what you want. Every article is written based off firsthand experience to provide the most helpful insights possible. I believe money matters are too important to be left up to pontification. If you want to read finance articles written by a 23-year finance veteran who practices what he writes you’ve come to the right place.
Written by Sam
Mr. Tako Escapes
I won’t live forever. That simple statement drives the decision to write this blog. This blog is primarily written for my sons to read and learn from (when they are old enough). I want my knowledge to live on. All other internet readers, you are most welcome here! There will be no falsehoods written here. No products will be sold here that I don’t use myself. Please read and learn what you can, but do your own due-diligence. Most financial advice is actually best at taking your money from you, very quietly, and without your noticing. I don’t want that to happen to my boys. I wish for my sons to achieve financial independence as soon as possible in their lives, and much of what will be written here is about how they can go about achieving it. If other internet readers can use this information to implement some good in their lives, I’m thrilled to help them. Help those who help themselves, I say. Financial independence is only just the beginning.
Written by Mr. Tako
Root Of Good
Through careful saving and planning, I managed to accumulate enough wealth to make me financially independent which allowed me to retire at age 33. When I retired in 2013 I expected to have fun, but not this much fun! I have a lovely wife that tried to retire early in 2015 but kept working part time for six more months until she joined me in early retirement in 2016. We live in Raleigh, North Carolina with our three generally wonderful children aged 5, 10, and 12. So what kind of stuff will you find on Root of Good? personal finance, financial independence, investing, having kids without breaking the bank, travel, money hacks and anything else that makes life more awesome!
Written by Justin
Retire by 40
I started Retire By 40 to keep track of my early retirement journey. It was a place to share my aspiration for Financial Independence. This was where I planned my exit strategy from the corporate world and our readers kept me accountable. I had to make a detailed plan and follow through. Eventually, I gave my notice and left the corporate world forever in July 2012. Wow, did it take just 2 years to achieve FIRE (financial independence retire early)? Not really. I had been saving and investing since I started working full time in 1996. My wife was also a huge part of the equation. She is frugal and fully supports this journey. She was pregnant when I told her I’m starting a blog – Retire By 40. Of course, she didn’t like that one bit. However, she got on board when I showed her that we could maintain our lifestyle without my engineering career. We tracked our cash flow and saved all my income from 2010 to 2012. Those 2 years gave us a chance to see if we could really survive with just one paycheck, our passive income, and my online income. We also reduced our annual expenses during that time and increased our net worth to 30x expense. The test run gave me the confidence to retire early from my engineering career. Mrs. RB40 is still working because she enjoys her job.
Written by Joe Udo
1,500 Days to Freedom
I’m a family guy living in Colorado with my wife and two young children. I studied biology and chemistry in college, but somehow turned into a software developer. I’m 39 41 and my goal is to retire in 1500 days at the age of 43. From as far back as I can remember, I liked to save and earn money. As a young child, my parents paid me the princely sum of USD2/week to mow the lawn, trim the hedges and pick up piles of dog logs. I loved it. Well, maybe not the part about the dogs. I hope to accomplish a couple things here at 1500days.com: Encourage and inspire others to abandon their consumer, spendaholic ways in favor of a more fulfilling existence. Our time on this blue-green, oblate spheroid is short. Let’s make the most of it. Learn. No matter how good you think you’re doing with an investment or saving money, someone is doing a better job. I look forward to interacting and learning from readers. If you have a good story or would like to guest post, I’m all ears.
Written by Carl
❐ INTERESTING ARTICLES:
Early Retirement Extreme
www.EarlyRetirementExtreme.com
My greatest claim to fame and overall impact on the world is probably this blog and the ideas behind ERE. Before that I used to be a nuclear astrophysicist, but in reality I’ve done many other different and (to me) interesting things and my aim is to continue this way of life for the rest of my life. Never getting bored. ERE is much much more than just ‘retiring extremely early’ by ‘sacrificing tourism and expensive restaurants’. It is effectively a philosophy of living. Now, you can read a summary on the wiki; a much longer version in the book; or you can try to piece things together from the blog, but the short story is that ERE is a set of values and principles that gives me—as well as you, if so desired—the freedom and opportunity to live an interesting and resilient life.
Written by Jacob
Get Rich Slowly
I was born and raised in Canby, Oregon. As was my father before me. As was his father before him. I attended Canby Union High School before spending four years at college in Salem, where I attended Willamette University. I earned a bachelor of arts in psychology with a minor in English (writing emphasis). I also took a lot of public speaking classes. Naturally, after I graduated I couldn’t find a job. I went to work for my Dad, selling custom boxes for the family business. I hated it. You’ll notice that none of this has anything to do with money. I have no formal training in the world of finance. I’m not an accountant. I’m not a licensed stockbroker. I’m not a certified financial planner. I’m just a regular guy who has learned about money through the school of hard knocks.
Written by J. D. Roth
Mr. Money Mustache
Mr Money Mustache is a thirtysomething* retiree who now writes about how we can all live a frugal yet Badass life of leisure. My (former) wife and I studied engineering and computer science in Canada, then worked in standard tech-industry cubicle jobs in various locations throughout the late ’90s and early 2000s. Then we retired from real work way back in 2005 in order to start a family. This was achieved not through luck or amazing skill, but simply by living a lifestyle about 50% less expensive than most of our peers and investing the surplus in very boring conservative Vanguard index funds and a rental house or two. This blog was born in 2011 out of exasperation. Six years into this early retirement, life was going well and our little boy was growing up nicely. But many of my friends and former coworkers remained broke, constantly complaining about how hard middle-class life is these days, and how much they would like to be able to afford to lose at least one of their six-figure salaries so someone could stay home with the kids.
Written by Mr. Money Mustache
JL Collins
This blog launched in June 2011 simply as a way to archive this information for my daughter. It has grown into an international readership and has become one of the most highly respected blogs in the world of Financial Independence. I have been called The Godfather of FI. No one is more amazed than I. In 2013 I created the annual Chautauqua retreat with the goal of going to cool places, to hang out with cool people and discuss cool stuff. So far, these have been held in Ecuador, England, Greece and Portugal. I am the author of The Simple Path to Wealth. It has sold over 400,000 copies and has been published in Korean, Japanese and German. Deals are signed to publish it in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Russia, Poland, Spain, Brazil and in Arabic. My second book, How I Lost Money in Real Estate Before it was Fashionable, is due out in October 2021.
Written by JL Collins
Early Retirement Now
In the large spectrum of existing Early Retirement blogs, where is my niche? I hope that people will enjoy my views on everything financial. Sometimes I read other blogs and we have something intelligent and new to say, but by posting in the comments section, not many people will get to see it. I like to create a permanent record, share our views with a hopefully larger audience, and get feedback and suggestions for our journey to Early Retirement. I retired from my finance job in June 2018 after a nice, productive 10-year run. Right after leaving my job, we went on a 20+ country trip around the world and we’re now settling down in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, just outside of Vancouver, Washington.
Written by Karsten
❐ INTERESTING ARTICLES:
Hedging Against Inflation and Monetary Policy Risk
tsr – Think Save Retire
This blog is about getting personal and thinking about money in a goal-oriented way. We share stories about how to achieve financial independence and gain freedom and control to live the lifestyle you design. Building wealth isn’t nearly as difficult as you might think. In fact you can find the tried and true methods in a lot of different places on the internet. However, the world of investing and personal finance can be very confusing. With so many different terms, and abstract concepts, it can get overwhelming if you don’t have someone to show you the ropes. Our goal is to break down the concepts into plain English so that anyone can be confident that they have the tools to build wealth and live their life outside of the rat race.
Written by Steve & Courtney Adcock
MAD Fientist
Since you’ve found your way here, you probably realize that achieving financial independence is possible. Now, you’re so excited about what your life will be like after you leave your full-time job, you want to get there as quickly as you can. You’ve come to the right place. By analyzing the tax code and looking at personal finance through the lens of early financial independence, I develop advanced strategies, spreadsheets, and software tools to help you retire even earlier. Most personal-finance advice is geared towards people retiring in their 60s or later and doesn’t apply to those of us pursuing early retirement. This site is focused specifically on providing advice and innovative tax-avoidance methods for people planning to break away from full-time employment very early in life. To get an idea of what goes on around here and to learn more about my story, here is the best place to start.
Written by The Mad Fientist
The Fioneers
First, a little bit about ourselves. We are in our thirties, both work for mission-driven nonprofit organizations, and we love talking about money. We also love all types of adventure, whether it’s exploring a new country, learning a new language, or exploring the great outdoors. We have a goal to travel to 100 countries together before we get too old to travel. We’ve visited eight countries so far, but we hope to have more time to do that once we’re financially independent location independent. Simply put, we like to dream big. We started the Fioneers as a way to track our journey to financial independence. If there’s anything we have learned so far, Financial independence has many definitions.
Written by Jess & Corey
Physician on FIRE
A personal finance website created to inform and inspire both physicians and our patients with insightful writing from a physician who has attained financial independence and the ability to retire early. The site has a triple aim to leave visitors enlightened, educated, and entertained. PhysicianOnFIRE.com is a web log a.k.a. blog site dedicated to the discussion of issues pertaining to personal finance, early retirement, medicine, and miscellany. I will post new material every week as long as I have something to say, and readers to read. The seeds for the blog were planted in my mind in 2014, I formulated a specific plan in 2015, and created the website with my first post on January 9, 2016. I typically publish several blog posts a week, including a popular Sunday Best round up post every weekend.
Written by Leif
Minafi
Minafi is a place to read about minimalism, mindfulness, financial independence and explore their growing intersection in everyday life. As for who this site is for — it’s for people like me. Those who are Millennials or older who are seeing their parents retire and are starting to wonder if they’ll be working until that same age. My goal is to explore this question through the lens of smart financial decisions, living with less and always keeping an open mind. As for where ‘Minafi’ comes from, it’s a combination of two areas I love Minimalism + Financial Independence.
Written by Adam
My Road to Wealth and Freedom
www.MyRoadToWealthAndFreedom.com
Welcome to My Road to Wealth and Freedom. While I write under the online name Gen X Investor, I can assure you all that I’m actually a real person and not just some kind of online bot or what have you. In a former life I was an avid scuba diver. Nowadays I’m a husband and father of two small children (so no more shark diving). For the past 10 years, I’ve been diligently saving and investing to escape the rat race and one day achieve my goal of financial freedom. I spend a lot of my time researching ways to build long term wealth so that my family can have a secure and stable financial future. To that end, you’ll see how I invest in a collection of income generating assets that have proven track records for building long term wealth. This website is definitely NOT about any get rich quick gimmicks. My hope is that YOU will draw inspiration from my story and my ultimate goal of financial freedom. I want to show people that by simply applying a few tried and true personal finance rules that an average person can achieve financial freedom.
Written by Gen X Investor
Our Next Life
Our Next Life is written by Tanja Hester, author of Wallet Activism: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Change and Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way. She retired at the end of 2017 at the age of 38 along with her husband Mark Bunge, who was 41. Our Next Life is a place where I’ve sparked thought and discussion since 2015, when we were deep into our savings journey toward early retirement, and that often means looking hard at the numbers and money, but then delving deeply into the aspects of early retirement that aren’t strictly financial — what we dream about in retirement, how we define ourselves post-career, how we’re healthier (but not magically cured) after ditching the job stress (and what we do for health care!), what we actually miss about work, the new anxiety that could arise when there’s no steady paycheck coming in — the stickier issues that sometimes get overlooked while plotting out retirement income or savings rates.
Written by Tanja Hester
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NOTE: If you happen to know any other blogs about early retirement, financial independence and the FIRE movement which have high quality content, please kindly CONTACT me to me know. I would love to add them into my list. Thanks!
