At the end of each year, I review my goals and plan the following year. And to keep me accountable, I publish them on this blog and follow them month after month.
I will do a single article for the review and the new goals this year. I think it is more digestible that way.
So, in this article, I will review my 2021 goals and their progress, what went well, and what did not go well. And then, I am going to show and explain my 2022 goals.
Recently, inflation has started to climb again, especially in the United States. And many investors are worried about what this will do to their investments.
So, I want to talk about what we should do to our investments when inflation rises and what assets classes perform best when prices increase.
Many people are wondering how much is our house costing us. But, it was difficult to answer that question before we lived inside for a while.
After one year spent in our house, I want to summarize all the fees we have paid. I am only going to compare what changed. For instance, we still pay about the same electricity as before, so this does not change. But heating is different, and we have to pay for water, for instance.
Hopefully, this will be useful for people wondering how much it costs to live in an owned house.
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2021 really flew by. I cannot believe it is already over! Overall, this was a weird year, with COVID and then the birth of my son. It did not look like any other year.
Nevertheless, December 2021 still felt a little like a usual end-of-year month. We had the (mostly) usual celebrations and the usual end-of-year bills.
Overall, it was a good month for us. So, let’s see the details of what happened in December 2021.
Living in Switzerland is expensive. There is no point denying that. However, it is not as expensive as many people think. There are many ways to save money each month on your budget in Switzerland.
People pay too much each month for most of their bills in Switzerland. It is because many people do not know they can pay less. Many people simply assume that they need to pay this amount and never try to optimize their budget.
Some households are also content with saving a tiny portion of their salary and not trying to save more. Finally, some people are simply falling into the trap of lifestyle inflation (very easy in Switzerland!). As long as their salary increases, they do not care too much about how their expenses increases!
But I believe people should always try to spend less when they can. When you can get the same quality for half the price, I do not see why you should pay more!
So in this article, we will look at 12 ways you can save money each month. The idea is to focus on recurring expenses to have savings for the long term.
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In the personal finance community, many people use the concept of Time Value of Money (TVM) to think about money. This concept helps you think about the value of money if it were invested.
I think it is an interesting concept worth talking about. However, we should be careful about using this concept because it leads some people to think too much about their expenses and understanding.
So, let’s see what the time value of money is and what we can do with it.
We recently became the parents of a cute son. Before he was born and in the first few months of his life, we had to purchase and prepare many things. We tried to avoid spending too much while still buying everything we needed for him.
Overall, we did a good job at keeping these expenses reasonable. And we also learned some things later on.
Overall, there are many things you can do to spend less for your newborn while not changing anything to his quality of life. In this article, I share our tips on how to save money with your newborn.
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I cannot believe it is already December. These last few months are flying by us very quickly. It is crazy how a child can change everything.
We are still slowly adapting to life with our son. He is growing nicely and changing very quickly. It was an interesting month to follow his growth.
Financially, we bought quite a few unusual things but did not go overboard either. So, we managed to save a sizeable portion of our income again.
Credit Cards are an important part of your personal finances. They are tools that you need to use to your advantage.
The problem is that it is easy to misuse credit cards. You need to have a good credit card strategy to take full advantage of credit cards.
Continue reading “The Best 2022 Credit Card Strategy: No Fees and Maximum Returns”
Retire Early The Simple Guide is now available as an ebook and hardcover! I wrote this book with Thomas Walke, another blogger in Switzerland.
Our book is about guiding the reader to their financial independence and possibly to their early retirement. Retire Early The Simple Guide is a general book applicable to most countries, but we primarily think about European countries.
This article discusses Retire Early: The Simple Guide in detail and how we wrote that book.
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