Another relatively steady, but good, month on the dividend side of our investments. We purchased some RDSA (100 shares) and AH (150 shares in two batches) in November, plus ongoing DRIPs for about 10 different companies, which added anywhere between 1-4 shares each. We currently own 10.222 share[…]
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A journey of a Dutch Family with one kid to Financial Independence and Retire Early or "FIRE".
Savings Rate November 2016
November was an amazing month from a savings rate perspective. Mainly because of the 4 week payment period in combination with the final payment of Mr. CF previous employer. Because of this we actually had a record month when looking at[…]
Read moreReal Estate Report – November 2016
As promised in the post on our Real Estate investments, we will be posting monthly “Real Estate Reports” going forward which will be showing all the good, the bad and the ugly. Considering this is the first post, we will have[…]
Read moreBand-Aids
Have you every realized that we as humans are extremely good at not solving the core problem (i.e. the root cause), but rather stick Band-Aids on it? Band-Aids What make this really bad is that we do this with almost[…]
Read moreFIRED-UP Meeting – Antwerp Edition
As noted by Amber Tree Leaves earlier this week, we are planning another FIRED-UP meeting in early 2017. Considering the success of the last one (see some posts/comments here, here and here), we are really looking forward to continue with these[…]
Read moreHow do we calculate our Savings Rate?
We (Mr. and Mrs. CF) just finished our discussions and thoughts on how to calculate our Savings Rate going forward (and correct some older results). The outcome of how we calculate our Savings Rate is added in this new page[…]
Read moreReal Estate Investments – History, Yields, Risks and Strategies
Team CF is continuously discussing investment strategies, preferences and making compromises in all the final investments. Mr. CF prefers stocks combined with some crowdfunding, Mrs. CF favours real estate. It should then also be unsurprising that we have a very[…]
Read moreOctober 2016 Cheesy Index
As noted in September, the Cheesy Index got a bit of an overhaul to accommodate new knowledge about Dutch taxes. Because of this new information, we appeared to have signifcantly underestimated our Cheesy Index. Fortunately, nothing new this month, so we continue the slow but steady increase going[…]
Read moreOctober 2016 Dividend Update
October was a relatively steady month on the dividend front. We purchased some UNA (100 shares, in two batches of 50 shares to profit from the steady drop in stock price) this month and got lots of free money. October yielded a very respectable €545[…]
Read moreSavings Rate October 2016
A new month, a new Saving Rate overview! We’ve now already closed the 10th month of 2016. Time flies when your having fun! I’m actually secretly very curious how the total finances for 2016 are going to look. But let’s not[…]
Read moreCareer Switch
It’s official, Mr. CF is going to do a career switch (sorry, it’s not one yet that revolves around FIRE….)! Where my former career was primarily revolving around project engineering, project management and design management, it will change to cost[…]
Read moreFrugal-licious – Apple Pie
For those of you that have been here before, you probably know by now that we strive to eat very healthy, in an attempt to make sure we can really enjoy our FI for as long as possible, with as[…]
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