It was a grey and rainy day in 2014 when Katie Donegan’s husband Alan asked her what she ‘really wanted from life’. Katie, who was 29 at the time, had never given it much thought. But this simple question sparked a new shared goal in their lives: to retire as soon as possible.
Alan had discovered a community of extreme savers online whose sole focus was to leave behind the world of work as early as they could.
The couple began a journey of extreme budgeting and in 2019 retired from work at ages 35 and 40. Since then, they have spent
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