Today, I want to share with you the details of my monthly budget and the categories that I use. Inspiration comes from a question I received during a live interview with Fire Belgium. The categories I have different main purposes of monthly expenses. Some are for spending in that month, other are for pre paying … More My 12 budget categories
Tracking my progress to FI… and a garden update … More My Progress to FI – May 2020
Becoming FI has long been a dream of me. I guess it is the dream of a lot of people FiIRE enthousiasts. And yet, I do take a lot of actions that go against the FI journey logic. My steps in the other direction I take steps away from FI. To become FI, you should … More My version of the FIRE journey.
2020… I really like how you pronounce this and how grace full and peaceful it looks. For 2020, I have listed my personal objectives. None of these objectives is financial in nature and is not really mesaurable like a savings rate or an amberindex. Why do this? It all comes down to my focus on … More The 2020 objectives
2019 was a year on a one salary budget. … More Living on one salary
Since 8 months I now live on a single salary. It is not the typical FIRE one salary whereby one stops to work because they have reached certain financial milestones in their financial long term plan. This one salary family is enforced on me due to my divorce. I see this new reality as an opportunity to … More A new reality
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