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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Cheesy Finance
A journey of a Dutch Family with one kid to Financial Independence and Retire Early or "FIRE".
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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November 2018 Dividend Update
The November 2018 Dividend Update is hopefully the last one with a (yet another!) YOY decrease! The effects of the dividend stock sale in 2017 are finally behind us. I’m very much looking forward to December, to be honest… November 2018[…]
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Should you buy a forest?
We had a discussion on slack the other day about air travel. As you all know, it’s one of the most polluting forms of travel. But also a fast way to get around and very convenient to cross big ponds.[…]
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Getting Rich by Using Other People’s Money
Today another guest post by reader Sander. He already reached FIRE and is currently enjoying his newly found time. We met a short while ago for lunch. Yes, this was one of those “let’s meet complete internet strangers for coffee”[…]
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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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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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Hacking the 4% rule!
You know you have awesome readers when you ask them for help and they respond in droves! Reader Cameron, who has been commenting since the early days of this blog, offered a post too. But this one might cause a[…]
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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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October 2018 Dividend Update
More boring stuff in this October 2018 Dividend Update. Yet again som more DRIP’s happened. However, we also bought some more dividend…….ETF’s? October 2018 Dividend Update No sale of shares this month, but we did buy some! Well not shares,[…]
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Where are the truly weird FIRE people?
Where are the truly weird FIRE people? Aren’t we all a bit weird to begin with? That being said, I definitely know one very weird FIRE guy: The Sloth! Still like the guy though. Now he decided to write a[…]
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Real Estate Report – October 2018
What better way to start a Monday morning than with the Real Estate Report – October 2018 edition?! We did some more maintenance, paid bills & got money from the insurance company. Life was good in October! Also, if you[…]
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