The pain you feel today is the strength you’ll feel tomorrow

‘Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn Oh yes! Another fitness post! you either love them or hate them 🙂 I have been very well disciplined so far with my workouts and I have completed my "perfect workout" plan by combining cardio, strength training and active …

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Matched Betting Update 20th – 26th March 2018

I'm finding it a lot easier to keep track of Mr Fire's Matched Betting now I'm doing it essentially a month behind. It means I can ask him the necessary questions I have to!   20th March Bet Type Profit Bookie Exchange £0.00 21th March Bet Type Profit Bookie Exchange £0.00 Mondays and Tuesdays were …

Are side hustles one big scam?

“Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.” ― P. Sainath I often read through FI blogs and literally become green with envy (ok so not literally) with how much they make with side hustles. I remember when I was working (wow I really get to say that now!) I would search the internet googling …

Monthly Catch up March to April 2018

“An investment in self-development pays the highest dividends.” ― Debasish Mridha March was a busy month for us in the LMF household. The snow featured alot more than we thought it would (translated as I had a few days off to "deal" with the snow) plus we had a two week half term. Lets see how …

Why I’d rather stand in traffic (than monitor mine)

I must admit, Its hard not to compare my blog to others. Mr Fire has the mentality of "if everyone else can do, then why cant I" I started this blog to keep track of my very scattered, disorganized brain. Its no secret that I don't know much about finance at the moment, so my …

Do you have the ShopFloor money Mentality?

"You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed" Will Smith. Mr Fire and myself had one of our "normal not normal" conversations about our childhoods and how they differed. Neither one of …

Investing in me: If cardio was cash

“An investment in self-development pays the highest dividends.” ― Debasish Mridha To finish my blog title, if cardio was cash then I would be making a pretty decent amount  of money as since my last post  I have been working my little but off hitting the cardio four times a week and I am actually beginning to …

Matched Betting Update 13th – 19th March 2018

The Cheltenham festival was a great source of excitement and despair. Mr Fire couldn't get the time off to complete the offers (of which there were plenty) He did manage to take advantage of them over the weekend though! 13th March Bet Type Profit Bookie Exchange £0.00 Dutch £0.00 Bet Stars Marathon Betfred A rather …

Starting my own Fire from the ground up

“A personal budget is a manifestation of your decision to grab your finances by the balls” ― Money Tree Man I'd admit it, I wasn't excited at all about sorting out my personal finances. Why? Well I do have a sort of love/hate relationship with money, which I'm sure I will talk about in a future …

Matched Betting Update 6th March – 12th March

Its a lot more complicated to log Mr Fire's Matched Betting than it was my own so this may be a weekly feature that is doomed from the start especially as this post should have been up yesterday! Since Mr Fire is not using a spreadsheet he is filling in Oddsmonkey profit tracker and I'm …