2019 is drawing to a close, and as is the norm on the Total Balance blog (easy now hot shot, this is only the first full year of blogging!) it’s thus time to take a gander back at this years major events – good or bad! My wife asked me yesterday, if I had a…
Boy, was I wrong!
The Christmas paradox
When I was a kid, I used to love Christmas (which kid doesn’t?!). My parents divorced when I was very little, so I’ve always had two Christmas eves! One with my dad and his family, and one with my mom and her family. Some times I would get presents for 3 days straight (23-24-25), because…
Monthly Update #15 (November 2019) – The Pause
It’s December already! And this means it’s time to look at some numbers from the great month of November! This monthly update is a bit delayed, as I’ve been on “Pause” since the end of November, where we went on a holiday to Egypt (again!?) to catch some sun and some much needed Vitamin D….
A tribute to TEoW
Behind every (great) man is a great woman (rolling her eyes)… This is a tribute to my (eye rolling) wife. Because she doesn’t get enough credit for her hard work every day, taking care of our family. I figured it was only appropriate to use the voice of my alter ego to thank her properly….
Crowdestor gets a facelift and adds 2FA – yay!
Quick update from your friendly neighborhood Total Balance guy! Crowdestor announced last month that they were gonna give their website an overhaul, and it has now arrived. Why should you care, you ask? Well, I think it’s noteworthy when a young company decides to completely re-vamp their website and add extra security features at the…
Crowdlending platform (in)security check
On Oct 14, I received a disturbing E-mail from one of the Crowdlending platforms that I currently have investments with. This was the exact message: Kuetzal website was attacked this Sunday, it was successfully reflected by Kuetzal, but for security reasons, some passwords may be deleted. If you can’t sign in your account, please use “reset password”, or…
Monthly Update #14 (October 2019) – The Golden Shuffle
Here we go again! Another month blew by, and it’s thus time for another riveting financial update from yours truly! It has been quite an eventful month! I sold some stuff, bought some new shiny “stuff”, entered 3 new crowdlending platforms and exited 1 (actually planning to exit a few more). I also received my…
A lazy mans guide to budgeting
I know. It was bound to happen eventually, right? – “How to do x-y-z” is the most boring blog posts of them all. I do believe we even refer to them as “filler posts”. Something we use to fill the void between the good stuff, right? – But not this guy! I’m here to tell…
Crunching the numbers of Year One
Since I’ve now been on the path to FI for more than a year (and recently wrote a somewhat philosophical rant about my first year on FIRE) I thought I’d spend some more words, looking into how the numbers have progressed during that first year. I (somehow) managed to grow my Total Balance by more…
Monthly Update #13 (September 2019) – Business as usual
Another month, another update from yours truly! 😉 I threw out a little teaser in my “One year later” post, and promised that a little excitement was on the horizon for the coming months. Well, the excitement is still in the making, so it won’t be until next months update that I can reveal, what…