I’m going to start a new series called “how do they do it?”. It features various interviews and explores how people change their lives for the better, financially anyways. The first interview today is with Liz. Liz is a 29[…]
Read more
Cheesy Finance
A journey of a Dutch Family with one kid to Financial Independence and Retire Early or "FIRE".
Rich, stuck and bored
Needless to say that 2020 is an interesting year. It’s the first year we are rich, stuck and bored all at the same time. Let me elaborate. Rich Albeit we are not FIRE (close though), and we are not millionaires[…]
Read more
Death & Taxes
It’s been relatively quiet here lately, which has a very good reason: Death & Taxes. Recently my dad has passed away after being ill for a short period of time. It’s been a roller coaster ride, which ended with a[…]
Read more
Going Dutch (Part II)
As noted earlier, Cheesy Finance is going Dutch! No, don’t worry, I won’t stop writing in English. But I have added a bit of Dutch content to our blog in the last few months. Just to help out our fellow Dutchies[…]
Read more
Getting Rich Blogging
Getting Rich Blogging, many of us bloggers would love to get rich blogging. Nothing beats some “passive” income, right? Most people have the idea that you start a blog and money flows is. I was hoping for that too, but[…]
Read more
How long does €1.000.000 last?
I bet you have the same question as I do on occasion. How long does €1.000.000 last? Oh, you don’t. Never mind… Anyhow, there are obviously multiple ways of looking at this. Including the use of many variables, as to[…]
Read more
Funding your ideal lifestyle
Funding your ideal lifestyle, how? Before you can answer that question, you need to ask “what is your ideal lifestyle”? Once you know what the could be, you can figure out how much you need to fund it. That brings[…]
Read more
Going Dutch
Please don’t fall off your chair (or whatever you are sitting on), because Cheesy Finance is going Dutch! I know quite a few people that are not that great at English. For them this blog is a bridge too far[…]
Read more
Mauled to death by a bear
Hi, Dr Doom here today. I still think we are going to be mauled to death by a bear…..market. If you’d think this whole corona business through carefully. And you really don’t need a PhD for this either! You have[…]
Read more
Life is too short to be sitting in an office
Life is too short to be sitting in an office. There are many people which consider this to be a correct statement. However, there are only very few people that actually take it seriously and do something about it. Introducing[…]
Read more
Barista FIRE it is!
I think I have figured it out (well, for us at least). I think I know what we need to do. The best balance in life is one of compromises. A little bit of both sides, combining the good and[…]
Read more
Looking at the bright side
Warning, the is not a financial post and filled with positive items. I’m only going to be looking at the bright side today. Read at your own risk and discretion, it might enhance your (long) weekend. Side effect might include[…]
Read more
Blondes are Better Investors
Mrs CF is the avid reader in our household. However, sometimes Mr CF also reads a book. Yep, unpopular opinion, but I don’t really like reading books. Something with being an old millennial that never had the ability to focus.[…]
Read more
Castles, Corona and Chaos
What shall I write about today? Let’s go with Castles, Corona and Chaos. Where our overall portfolio had another all-time high in February, at time of writing we are now down to May 2019 levels. Could have been worse, I[…]
Read more