I’d be a horrible sugar daddy! No really. I’ve always been frugal, but the journey to FIRE really has made me worse. Can you imagine me as a sugar daddy? Yes, that was a trick question 😉 I’d be a[…]
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Category: Life
Deprivation: the best thing you can do in 2019!
You know I’m having a hard time without beer when the title of the first post of this year is as follows. Deprivation: the best thing you can do in 2019! Neah, just kidding, or am I? But before we[…]
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2019: The Year Without a Beer!
I like a challenge, especially when your friends and folks on Twitter call you crazy. So, here we go. 2019: The Year Without a Beer! 2019: The Year Without a Beer! Ever since I saw a documentary about alcohol earlier[…]
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Happy Holidays to all you Money Nerds
Happy Holidays to all you Money Nerds! May your excel sheets be great, your stomach be stuffed and may your 2019 be (financially) successful and healthy. Happy Holidays to all you Money Nerds! From me an Mrs CF, happy holidays![…]
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Complaining
Rule number 1 in blogging, never talk about politics, religion or the environment. You can never win and it’s really easy to alienate your readers. So what am I going to do today… Exactly, I’m going to rant about complaining,[…]
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Rich the F-You Garden Gnome
Dear readers, I like to introduce to you Rich the F-You garden gnome. Rich is a grumpy old garden gnome with an attitude. Rich also like money & investing, he likes gardens, he likes travelling and he is a big fan[…]
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Cheesy Finance in the Media
Last week I got an note from a writer at the large Dutch new outlet Nu.nl. In that comment I got the question to do an interview for an article about FIRE. It didn’t take me long to say yes![…]
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Financial Independence Europe Podcast
If you want to hear me try to squeeze 2 hours into 30 minutes, you got to check this out! You might need to play this at 0.5x speed 😉 Financial Independence Europe Podcast A while back I got the[…]
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Virtual vs Reality
Virtual vs Reality: the life of a blogger that wants to meet people, because, well being lonely sucks. How my life was enriched by many (non-) bloggers! Virtual vs Reality It was more than 2 years ago already that we had[…]
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I need help!
If you think I’m crazy as a doorknob with all my talk about buying castles, yachts and islands, you are probably correct. But I do not need help with being a bit off, sorry about that. But I do need[…]
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10 Secrets to becoming wealthy!
Are you ready for the 10 Secrets to becoming wealthy! Now pay very close attention and note everything down very carefully. Otherwise you might not get there! 10 Secrets to becoming wealthy! Ok, just to be clear, if you got here[…]
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The Church of FIRE
I’m a disciple of the Church of FIRE. I stick to its 10 commandments and rarely sin. Some say we are a cult, some say we are crazy & doomed, but we have faith in money! Oh, and our holy[…]
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Random Musings
Just came back from ZwolCon 2018. From what? It was a meeting with other bloggers and non-bloggers in a café in the beautiful city of Zwolle. It was great fun, as per usual, to see friends and make new ones.[…]
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Lonely
Suddenly it hit me. I know what I’m missing now that I’m no longer employed. I need people around me, I need to be able to talk and share ideas, right now I’m lonely! Lonely Let me start to note[…]
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