No really, 2019 was the hottest year on record! We have never been this hot (and dry) and we loved every minute of it 🙂 I mean, it was HOT! Happy, Opportunity rich & Time rich. Who does not want[…]
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Category: Cheesy Index
2018 Financial Overview
Today I’m going to wrap the savings rate, cheesy index and our overall investment performance into one 2018 Financial Overview. For more details on the real estate, check out this post. The post on the dividends will be coming later[…]
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October 2018 Cheesy Index & Savings Rate
It’s been busy and interesting here at Cheesy central with posts on the 4% rule, weird people, work and FIRE in the Netherlands. Now it’s time to catch up on savings rates and the Cheesy Index. So today a report[…]
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September 2018 Cheesy Index & Savings Rate
All that talk about early retirement, FIRE meetups and more non-sense! Forgot to catch up on savings rates and the Cheesy Index. Hereby the September 2018 Cheesy Index & Savings Rate, including catch-up form the previous month(s). September 2018 Cheesy[…]
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July 2018 Cheesy Index
The July 2018 Cheesy Index update is another good one! We got the assessment/valuation of one of our investment properties and it was good. We updated some of the data and the impact on the percentage FIRE is very positive.[…]
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June 2018 Cheesy Index
The June 2018 Cheesy Index update is an interesting one. Firstly as we also included April and May. This was obviously because we were travelling and could no do much over the past months on the financials. I also quite[…]
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Some good news again during March. We were able to increase our wealth just a tiny bit. Our real estate helped out a lot, the March savings rate not really, but overall we did well. Here is the March 2018[…]
Read moreFebruary 2018 Cheesy Index
First off, thank you all for the well wishes on my post/tweets of quitting my job. The feedback, congratulations and tips/tricks for starting up a company are really appreciated! With all the excitement I almost forgot to write an update on the[…]
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We have been busy making some updates and modifications to the underlying calculations (and numbers) for the Cheesy Index, which will apply as per this January 2018 Cheesy Index. There were some significant changes implemented. This caused our target wealth[…]
Read moreDecember 2017 Cheesy Index
Well what better than to wrap up and summarize 2017 than with the Cheesy Index? In this December 2017 Cheesy Index post we will also look at the portfolio allocation and some random financial statistics, which also showed we were FI[…]
Read moreOctober and November 2017 Cheesy Index
Oops, just discovered that I never did the October 217 Cheesy Index. Ha, too busy writing all kinds of ethical stuff. To catch up here are the October and November 2017 Cheesy Index. October 2017 Cheesy Index Thanks to the great[…]
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September 2017 Cheesy Index
The September 2017 Cheesy Index was such a great thing to calculate! This as we already hit the yearly target, and we are only in October! September 2017 Cheesy Index Thanks to the low expenses for September and good investment[…]
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August 2017 Cheesy Index
The August 2017 Cheesy Index provided yet another positive month, but the (Dutch) stock market fluctuations did make a small dent. We did have a very good savings rate, dividend income and rental income, which helped us increase our net worth in August. August 2017[…]
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July 2017 Cheesy Index
The July 2017 Cheesy Index had yet another (very) positive month due to the reasonable savings rate and the good dividend income and rental income. We really cannot complain on the progress at all. Even the exchange rates stayed relatively[…]
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