In our last blog post I wrote about our amazement of the positive development that has taken place in our finances since we embarked on our journey towards financial independence two and a half years ago. I mentioned that once we started paying attention to our spending as well as investing aggressively in low-cost index…

It´s hard to believe it´s been two years since I, Ms. Becoming FI, accidentally came across FIRE, the Financial Independence Retire Early-community. A discovery that was about to change our lives for good.I never really could accept that some 40 years of our lives, aside from a couple of weeks of vacation a year, would…

Due to the global coronavirus pandemic we have all had the opportunity to test our risk tolerance in the last couple of weeks. Some of us might have realised that our level of tolerance isn´t quite what we thought it should be, when the market was still making double-digits. What about Mr. Become FI and…

To listen to American Financial Independence podcasts might feel frustrating for someone living in Finland. The living and working conditions in the US are so different from those in Finland. And mostly Finnish conditions are not beneficial for those of us trying to reach financial independence. This is mainly because of lower wages, high taxation…

Mr. Becoming FI says that what really convinced him that Financial Independence would be feasible to us, a middle-class family with middle class income, was reading the Stock Series  by the legendary JL Collins, author of the highly praised book “The simple path to wealth”. Check it out in your local library and if they…

There is this famous line from the Forrest Gump movie: “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” Is that so?To ponder over this question was somehow how our journey towards Financial Independence  began almost one year ago.  To be frank in the beginning the “we” was only Ms. Becoming…