Retired At 32? How We Achieved Financial Independence

The FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) movement is picking up steam, and I’m proud to say we are amongst its newest members. Three years ago, at the age of 29, we hit our first financial goal of being mortgage free. It was without-a-doubt a happy moment, but it didn’t take long for the realization to set in that by focusing exclusively on paying off the mortgage, we consequently really fell behind on investing for our retirement. That was the big trade-off we...