MY JOURNEY TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM AND EARLY RETIREMENT
Pursuing financial independence is a lot of fun. I really enjoy tracking my savings rate and making my monthly reports to see how my net worth is growing – and I am thrilled by the thought of not having to work for the rest of my life! Pursuing financial independence is also a lot of […]
This is a guest post from Eric Rosenberg, a finance writer at Personal Profitability, InvestmentZen, and other personal finance, technology, and travel publications. His sites are featured in my latest post on the fastest growing personal finance blogs of 2017. While I’ve never paid a cent of interest on a credit card or carried a […]
Friends, I hope you have all had a great past month! After a month of summer vacation, I am now back at work. I could easily have used a few more months though! Good thing we are heading for early retirement 🙂 What happened in July? In July, I enjoyed a long-awaited vacation with house […]
Three months ago I did a study on the best personal finance blogs of 2017Â using the personal finance blog list from the Rockstar Directory covering more than 1,000 blogs. I gathered/scraped all sorts of data for all of the blogs to determine which of them were most popular. This post turned out to generate lots […]
Since I started my journey towards financial independence and early retirement last year (and this blog shortly after), I have managed to save $1,928 each month by making significant changes to how I spend and think about money. I have managed to increase my savings rate (the share of my take-home income that I put […]
Friends, I hope you are having a great start to the summer (or winter if you live in the Southern Hemisphere)! I have had a relaxing month and have started to settle in to the new apartment with fewer things to do and lower costs for new furniture etc., which means that I am back on […]
Some of the most frequent questions I get are related to how I invest my money. Actually, it is really simple and below I’ll share my thoughts on how you could invest your own money. My attitude towards investing I’ll be honest with you. I am not particularly fond of reading long investor reports or […]
Hello Frengers, I hope you have all had a great May and start on June! I have been super busy, and you have probably noticed that the activity on the blog has suffered slightly because of that. Not only has the blog suffered, but my monthly savings rate is a disaster for the second month […]
Last week, I was approached by Jade Preston who wanted to contribute with a post on the P2P lending scene in 2017. As I have been writing a bit about P2P lending already, I decided that I would go ahead and give this whole ‘contributed posting’ a shot 🙂 The article below has been contributed by […]
Bummer! April has been the worst month on my financial independence journey (yes, I changed the name from “financial freedom journey” to “financial independence journey” as it is more used in the PF community). It is fun how I in February wrote an article about why you don’t need things and now have spent more […]