Hello dear readers, goodfolk, friends and future self! September 2021 is now a thing of the past, and thank God for that! What a terrible month it has been! Red numbers across the board. Luckily October is already proving to be a bit more merciful. I have been busy at work, at home (and other…
Monthly Update #37 (September 2021) – Dawn of the dead
Where is the housing market going(?) (A projection based on 30 years of data)
I found myself channeling my inner fortune teller today, and since I’ve been preparing for a remortgage for some time I thought I’d share my thoughts (and projections) on the process with you guys! (Oh geez, he’s lost it completely now!) Bear with me here 😉 – It’s going to get really interesting, I promise!
Three Years Later
In the words of Kermit the frog: Time is fun when you’re having flies! In other words, I’ve now been blogging for 3 years, and it has been a lot of fun (for the most part). One of the benefits of blogging (besides the therapeutical effects of writing) is that you can look back at…
Monthly Update #36 (August 2021) – Another Great Loss
Here we go again! Another month is history, and as the norm dictates it’s thus time to have a look at our finances in the Total Balance household. August 2021 was a(nother) red month in terms of stocks/ETF growth, but worst of all I had to bury another grandparent. My grandmother died at the age…
How much is enough(?)
I recently got this question from one of my co-workers, who is in his late forties, and I was surprised and a bit perplexed that he would ask this question. We often debate our pension returns in my office (among 4-5 close colleagues) and I love that this topic is not taboo in our office….
Monthly Update #35 (July 2021) – The Summer Slumper
Here we go again, folks! Another month is in the history books, and it’s thus time to look back at how our Total Balance has fared. We had 3 weeks off in July, and we spent the majority of it in Denmark, and luckily we were fairly lucky with the weather (you never know about…
Monthly Update #34 (June 2021) – The one without a proper title
June 2021 is a thing of the past, and as projected last month – it was indeed an expensive month! June is a major birthday month in my family (wife, mother and sister in law) and on top of that, I decided to purchase some new wheels for my wife’s car (2nd hand, of course!…
How to build a winning stock strategy(?)
A while ago I wrote a post about how your personality dictates your return and since I’ve recently embraced the roller coaster (the stock market), I decided to revisit it and write down some of my thoughts, on how to pick a stock strategy that matches your personality. Lets dig in!
Monthly Update #33 (May 2021) – Business as usual
Hello good people of the FIRE community! Another month has passed, and it’s thus time for another riveting update from yours truly. May was a relatively quiet month in the Total Balance household – hence the title of this update (business as usual).
Monthly Update #32 (April 2021) – Another round (of leverage)
Here we go again. Another monthly update (have you grown tired of them yet?) from yours truly. The month of April has been pretty eventful. Denmark is slowly beginning to open up from the winter lockdowns (please don’t let this become a returning thing!), and we’ve spent some time in our garden planting trees and…