Savings Report #25 - We're Almost There

This is a Saving Ninja savings report. Go to How To Track Your Savings to check out the Saving Ninja Super Spreadsheet. Please note that I split my expenses equally with my partner and the savings rate, house equity and house value represent my share only. The spreadsheet calculates my savings rate based off £12,000 worth of expenses per year, even though my expenses are actually Less Than 10k Per Year ....

August 6, 2020 · 5 min · SavingNinja

Employee Share Scheme: Which Option to Take?

When I start work at my new place in August, I’ll have only a week to decide what type of share options I’d like. This is a decision that I’ll have to stick with for 4 years! It’s also a decision that will see me earning huge amounts, or nothing at all. I’ve read through the share program and I’ve been left baffled, it’s super complicated. So, in this article I’ll work my way through the documentation, nothing will be omitted, and you guys can help me decide which option to choose....

July 20, 2020 · 11 min · SavingNinja

Savings Report #24 - Moving Country is Hard!

This is a Saving Ninja savings report. Go to How To Track Your Savings to check out the Saving Ninja Super Spreadsheet. Please note that I split my expenses equally with my partner and the savings rate, house equity and house value represent my share only. The spreadsheet calculates my savings rate based off £12,000 worth of expenses per year, even though my expenses are actually Less Than 10k Per Year ....

July 4, 2020 · 6 min · SavingNinja

Something Happened

The Ninja household is going to be changed forever. Something happened which was so unexpected, so alien, and yet so perfectly aligned to the current and future goals that I’ve mused about on this very blog. So, strap in and brace yourselves for…the news. One blustery morning 3 months ago I was contacted out of the blue by an internal recruiter for a certain company. Said company was one of those companies, you know, one of the companies that I’ve been training for ....

June 18, 2020 · 9 min · SavingNinja

The FIRE Movement Wasn't for Me

It’s about time I introduced myself. Mr SavingNinja has mentioned that I was going to do an introductory post and maybe some further posting, so here I am, Mrs SavingNinja. I have been with my husband since the beginning of his financial journey, and I’ll admit that sometimes I have been hard to convince and sometimes (in the beginning) I wasn’t fully onboard. Hey, Big Spender My mum is a ‘SpendyPants,’ a great big giant one....

June 8, 2020 · 8 min · MrsSavingNinja