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Category: Monthly updates

Monthly updates

Monthly Update #18 (February 2020) – Bloodbath

  • By That Guy
  • Mar 7,2020
  •  ♦ 4

Update #18 is about to go down, which means I’ve now been doing these for 18 months! Of all the updates this has by far been my LEAST favorite one to do. But even though life has its ups and downs the show must go on 🙂 2019 ended on a high note for the…

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Monthly Update #17 (January 2020) – The Domino Effect

  • By That Guy
  • Feb 3,2020
  •  ♦ 4

The first month of 2020 is already over, guys – and thank God for that. January is usually my least favorite month of the year (long and cold), and this year was no exception. There’s really no easy way to say it! What a shitty month. Lets wrap this one up quickly, so we can…

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Monthly Update #16 (December 2019) – Miracles & Obstacles

  • By That Guy
  • Jan 2,2020
  •  ♦ 9

It’s 2020 already! Happy New year, everybody! Time flies, when you’re counting pennies! It’s 2019 no more, and this is thus the final Monthly Update of 2019! The month of December saw no records broken (besides maybe the one for how much sugar one guy can eat within 1 month – yikes!) Christmas was indeed…

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Monthly Update #15 (November 2019) – The Pause

  • By That Guy
  • Dec 8,2019
  •  ♦ 5

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….

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Monthly Update #14 (October 2019) – The Golden Shuffle

  • By That Guy
  • Nov 3,2019
  •  ♦ 10

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…

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Monthly Update #13 (September 2019) – Business as usual

  • By That Guy
  • Oct 1,2019
  •  ♦ 3

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…

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Monthly Update #12 (August 2019) – Goodbye Summer, hello September!

  • By That Guy
  • Sep 4,2019
  •  ♦ 9

Welcome to my Monthly update #12. The 1-year anniversary month of the Total Balance blog has arrived! I wrote my first post on totalbalance.blog on the 25th of September 2018! So, I will save the birthday celebrations for another 25 days (give or take). This is a monthly update, so let’s focus on the month…

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Monthly Update #11 (July 2019) – The vanishing

  • By That Guy
  • Aug 5,2019
  •  ♦ 5

Another month has blown by, and it’s thus time for another riveting update from yours truly. My trusty mascot, Russel the LEGO guy has unfortunately gone AWOL. My daughter claims she doesn’t know anything about it, but it’s quite obvious who’s to blame for his vanishing (unless CatZilla ate him…)! Anyway, I’ve brought on his…

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Monthly Update #10 (June 2019) – Robbing the bank!

  • By That Guy
  • Jul 2,2019
  •  ♦ 6

June has flown by, and it’s thus time to look back at another record-breaking month. – Not in terms of my finances though, but the heat is breaking all sorts of records, frying the Europeans to a crisp these days! It’s been so hot (even in Denmark) that my faithful buddy, Russel the LEGO mascot,…

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Monthly Update #9 (May 2019) – Taking the plunge!

  • By That Guy
  • Jun 1,2019
  •  ♦ 13

Another month in the Total Balance household has flown by! As per the standard; it’s thus time for another riveting update, on my quest towards Financial Independence. I’m joined today by my trustworthy friend, Russel the Total Balance mascot, who in the spirit of this months headline is Taking the plunge (into a pool! –…

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