{"id":34715,"date":"2025-07-31T10:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34715\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:34:20","slug":"to-retire-7-years-earlier-stop-buying-these-7-things-by-keith-weaver-jul-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34715\/","title":{"rendered":"To Retire 7 Years Earlier, Stop Buying These 7 Things | by Keith Weaver | Jul, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FINANCIAL FREEDOMHint: Your daily \u201ctreat\u201d might be costing you thousands.<a href=\"https:\/\/kweave.medium.com\/?source=post_page---byline--cd46d16fcf20---------------------------------------\" rel=\"noopener follow nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Keith Weaver\" class=\"m fd bx by bz cx\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1*63Sy_5IZs5QIr8tJnyD_IA@2x.jpeg\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" loading=\"lazy\" data-testid=\"authorPhoto\"\/><\/a>Zoom image will be displayed<img alt=\"\" class=\"bh fw pi c\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" loading=\"eager\" role=\"presentation\"\/>Credits: Author<\/p>\n<p id=\"10fe\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph pn po it pp b jw pq pr ps jz pt pu pv go pw px py gr pz qa qb gu qc qd qe qf hq bk\">At some point, many of us will have this moment: standing in a crowded subway car, or staring blankly at another calendar invite, quietly thinking:<\/p>\n<p id=\"f51b\" class=\"pn po qj pp b jw pq pr ps jz pt pu pv go pw px py gr pz qa qb gu qc qd qe qf hq bk\">\u201cI cannot do this for another 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"7c35\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph pn po it pp b jw pq pr ps jz pt pu pv go pw px py gr pz qa qb gu qc qd qe qf hq bk\">The traditional retirement timeline \u2014 work hard for 40+ years, then finally relax when your knees start to creak \u2014 isn\u2019t just outdated. It\u2019s broken. Especially when so many of us spend a large part of our lives working jobs we don\u2019t love, to buy things we don\u2019t need, just to impress people we don\u2019t even like.<\/p>\n<p id=\"df42\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph pn po it pp b jw pq pr ps jz pt pu pv go pw px py gr pz qa qb gu qc qd qe qf hq bk\">Here\u2019s the good news: You can retire years earlier than planned. That much we know, and there are countless people who already pulled the trigger on their early retirements.<\/p>\n<p id=\"839f\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph pn po it pp b jw pq pr ps jz pt pu pv go pw px py gr pz qa qb gu qc qd qe qf hq bk\">Here\u2019s the better news: You might already be spending the money that could make it happen.<\/p>\n<p id=\"d7b0\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph pn po it pp b jw pq pr ps jz pt pu pv go pw px py gr pz qa qb gu qc qd qe qf hq bk\">Well, not directly good news. But if it\u2019s something that you are spending, it means that no longer spending it will fast-track your early retirement efforts. That is the real good news.<\/p>\n<p id=\"99d1\" class=\"pw-post-body-paragraph pn po it pp b jw pq pr ps jz pt pu pv go pw px py gr pz qa qb gu qc qd qe qf hq bk\">By identifying a few key spending habits and replacing them with smarter alternatives, it\u2019s possible to save hundreds of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FINANCIAL FREEDOMHint: Your daily \u201ctreat\u201d might be costing you thousands.Zoom image will be displayedCredits: Author At some point,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-34715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}