After reading a ton of blog posts about how you can’t time the market, and just as many stating how you can/should time the market (you mean like this one?), I decided it was time to dig a little deeper into this subject. This let me to think about opportunity cost (remember I’m currently holding on…
Opportunity cost
My investment strategy
It’s been a while since I’ve written about my investment strategy, so I thought it was time for a little update on that front, seeing that this is supposed to be a personal finance blog. – I realize that it has taken a bit of a slant towards the personal part, rather than the finance…
F*CK Capitalism
I came across this sign in a town close to where I live. It’s supposed to be a nice neighborhood too! 😉 The sign indicate that a new apartment complex is going to be build in the near future – it even says “climate friendly”. Apparently, someone did not approve of this message. This someone took…
Monthly Update #5 (January 2019) – The Return of Mr. Self-Pity
Since I started this blog back in September, the monthly updates has been my absolute favorite posts to write. They basically write themselves, right? So, what happened in January 2019? I have to be honest with you: I hate January. January is my least favorite month of the year. It’s cold, dark and summer and…
Lost & Found
So, last week I made a bold statement, and accused my wife of stealing my stones (No, not those! – But I like the way you think! 😛 )… It turned out that I still had them! They were tucked away in one of those moving boxes that you never get around to unpack (we…
The side hustle
If you’ve red The Story you know that I’m a saver. I like to save – but not just money – anything that can be accumulated. I’ve always been a bit of a collector, really. I’ve collected bottle caps, DVDs (before that, it was VHS tapes), stones (no you idiot, not the ones you find on…
My 3 Biggest Crowdlending Mistakes
I realize that the topic of my past mistakes has been a little over-represented on the blog lately, but this time I’m going to keep it a bit more relevant to the theme (of investing) 😉 I promise I’ll be done talking about my mistakes after this one (yeah, right). A couple of my friends…
Haunted by the past
Since I started my FIRE journey, I’ve become more and more aware of my past mistakes. I tell myself it’s a good thing, as this should help me avoid making more of them in the future. Every quarter, I’m painfully reminded of my past mistakes in an annoying physical form; Wrapped in cellophane in my…
The goals for 2019
When I started this blog back in September 2018, and wrote my first post I really didn’t have a clue what I was doing or where I was going (this is the honest truth!). I had read a lot of other FIRE blogs, and thought it would be a good idea, to create my own…
Monthly Update #4 (Year end!) – Goodbye 2018 – Hello 2019!
My first year on FIRE has come to an end! It’s time to look back on December 2018, and the year of 2018. I started my journey back in September, and it has certainly been an eventful few months! 3 (full) months on FIRE has really helped change my perspective on life (for the better)….