Resources

Useful resources and further reading - these are my FIRE favourites.

Facebook

• UKFIREHQ - a Facebook group for British FIRE investors, run by me and my pals.

Blogs

• Mr Money Mustache - the original blog that got me into all of this. Pete is big on embracing frugality and questioning whether our spendypants habits make us happy.
• Millennial Revolution - Kristy and Bryce are a young Canadian couple who retired early using FIRE and geo-arbitrage. Their blog contains a fair amount of travelogue amid the FIRE stuff.
• The Simple Path To Wealth - JL Collins was an early advocate of keeping things simple and just investing in a broad index fund.

Tools

• fireplanner.uk - my illustration tool to show how your savings and portfolio should go.
• Compound interest calculator - the basic tool for showing the effect of compounding on our savings.
• FIREcalc - portfolio test tool.

Books

• FIRE for Dummies - if the “for Dummies” format suits you as a method of learning, you’ll enjoy Jackie Cummings-Koski’s book.
• My books - prior to this blog I had written a couple of books on personal finance. FIRE in the UK is great to hand to someone to try to give them a bit of a practical financial education in under an hour.

Course

• Rebel Finance School - if reading this has your head in a whirl and you could do with a more measured series of lessons, Alan and Katie Donegan run a free annual course which spends ten weeks training you in money, debt, fixing your work pension, and investing. The format is a weekly 90 minute Zoom session followed by a weekly Q&A session, all is which is available on YouTube for catch-up.