A Dutch Financial Independence Blog
A journey of a Dutch Family with one kid to Financial Independence and Retire Early or "FIRE".
We are not perfect, will Mrs. CF is of course (yup, I’m in need of brownie points), but I’m certainly not. Ignoring (many) mistakes on a personal level, which mostly don’t involve financial issues, financial mistakes were definitely made too.[…]
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Dividends, those little paychecks that companies send you just for owning their shares. Lovely isn’t it? Here is the update of all those little paychecks for July. Here is the July 2018 Dividend Update. July 2018 Dividend Update In an[…]
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Below is a breakdown of the July 2018 Savings Rate. It’s our first month with the new “normal”, e.g. being on one income. How did we do? July Finances Where did we spent our money on in July? Well, here[…]
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Not to long ago we looked at if you should buy a holiday home? That was not such a great idea. Let’s think outside the box, could you make money with a boat? In short, should you buy a yacht?[…]
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This Real Estate Report – July 2018 edition is a catch up from the last few months. Regular readers will know that we were travelling through Europe. If you are new (or interested), you can check the various travel posts here,[…]
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After writing part 1 & 2 earlier, it’s time to sit down and write this 9 Week Road Trip Report – Part 3. In between finishing the rather long to-do list…. Anyhow, we start this overview in southern Italy, go[…]
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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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Should you buy a holiday home? This is a question that we reviewed several times during and after our epic road trip. Albeit we quickly came to the conclusion that you shouldn’t. In most cases at least, let me explain.[…]
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Hello Folks, got some exciting news today! We have scheduled another FIRE meetup, but one that is specifically focussing on real estate investing. In short, get ready for Utrecht Real Estate Con! Utrecht Real Estate Con We noticed that a[…]
Read moreWhat I like about dividend investing is that once you have selected a few good companies, the rest is relatively easy. Yes, you need to keep an eye on your investments, and check how the companies are doing. But the[…]
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