Brit Couple Retire Before 40, Still Debating Vitamins & Marvel

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•Katie and Alan Donegan retired early in 2019 at ages 35 and 40 after running separate businesses and starting investments in 2015.
•Alan described his 20s as 'a bit of a mess' with multiple jobs before settling into entrepreneurship consulting by 28.
•They advised young adults to embrace compounding, avoid aggressive expense cutting like skipping weddings, and resist lifestyle inflation.
•The couple emphasizes maintaining multiple saving accounts, pursuing lifelong learning, and focusing on health with vitamins and sleep improvements.

Katie and Alan Donegan, the UK's nomadic duo who heroically called it quits in 2019 at 35 and 40, showed us young hustlers there’s life beyond the rat race. Starting their savings in 2015, Alan’s 'messy 20s' included binge-job-hopping and an entrepreneurship consulting stint from age 28. They preach the gospel of compounding—apparently the impatient million-dollar dream needs patience and compound interest as your overeager but loyal sidekick. Alan warns against crossword-level expense cutting like skipping weddings to save pennies, while Katie preaches against lifestyle inflation, because apparently owning a bigger house is the financial equivalent of a prestige tattoo. Together, they recommend juggling four separate accounts by purpose, lifelong learning beyond the soul-crushing university bubble, and their newest revelation: health hacks like vitamins and eye masks. Oh, and Marvel for happiness. Because nothing says financial independence like arm wrestling your neighbor and binge-watching superheroes.

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Retiring before 40 while debating vitamins, grocery spends, and Marvel obsession? Congrats, you're officially a financially independent adulting paradox.

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