Monkey Master
Confused about dryer sheets
- Joined
- Jun 15, 2013
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Hello,
I'm currently 33 and live in Sydney, Australia with my wife and son. We both work full-time but have decided to change our lives by retiring at 35 so we can spend more time as a family and focus more on volunteering work.
We've always been quite careful with money and had been saving to buy a house in Sydney. And then we realised, we took the problem the other way round. We could already have a house somewhere else for much cheaper. The only reason we are staying in Sydney was for our jobs.
So now we plan to quit our jobs, buy a small country house, grow our own food, contribute to causes we believe in and live off our savings account. The good thing about Australia at the moment is that we can get a 4.7% savings rate (used to be higher).
We'll have a safety net but given that we really don't spend a lot, except of rent, we are on track to reach our goal. We even gave our life changing experience a name (Monkeyism) in order to explain it to our friends and family who can't understand what we a going through.
Thanks for reading!
I'm currently 33 and live in Sydney, Australia with my wife and son. We both work full-time but have decided to change our lives by retiring at 35 so we can spend more time as a family and focus more on volunteering work.
We've always been quite careful with money and had been saving to buy a house in Sydney. And then we realised, we took the problem the other way round. We could already have a house somewhere else for much cheaper. The only reason we are staying in Sydney was for our jobs.
So now we plan to quit our jobs, buy a small country house, grow our own food, contribute to causes we believe in and live off our savings account. The good thing about Australia at the moment is that we can get a 4.7% savings rate (used to be higher).
We'll have a safety net but given that we really don't spend a lot, except of rent, we are on track to reach our goal. We even gave our life changing experience a name (Monkeyism) in order to explain it to our friends and family who can't understand what we a going through.
Thanks for reading!