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Category: Updates

Reports of our expenses, earnings, and net worth. You’ll find the evolution of our savings rate, what went well, what didn’t well, month by month. The goal is to share everything, with 100% transparency. You will also find some information about our travels. Follow my path to Financial Independence.

November 2020 – An uneventful yet expensive month

In November 2020, we managed to save 50% of our income. But due to COVID-19, it was a pretty boring month.

October 2020 – More COVID and quarantine

Find out all that happened to us and our finances in October 2020.

12 Things I Love about Switzerland – Beautiful Country

Find out the 12 things I love the most about living in Switzerland. I'm talking about mountains, lakes, cheese, and much more!

Third Year of Blogging – The Poor Swiss is 3 years old!

The Poor Swiss just turned 3 years old! Find out all that happened during the third year of blogging and what will happen in the future.

September 2020 – More furniture!

In September, we did not save as much as usual because we bought more furniture for the new house.

August 2020 – Vacations and Furnitures

In August 2020, we went for a nice vacation in Davos and started furniture shopping for the new house, but we still saved 32% of our income.

July 2020 – We are buying a house!

We have signed the contract to buy a house! In July 2020, we also managed to save 57% of our income! It was a great month!

June 2020 – Another month deep in taxes!

In June 2020, we spent a lot of money for our taxes! But we still managed to save 10% of our income, come find out exactly how we did that!

May 2020 – The revenge of the taxes!

Unfortunately, we did not save any money in May 2020. We had to pay a lot of taxes this month, come find out exactly what happened!

April 2020 – A month at home

In April 2020, we saved more than 75% of our income. Because of the isolation, we spend very little money this month at home.

March 2020 – COVID-19 comes to Europe

In March 2020, we saved 75% of our income and our net worth reached 275K! Find out exactly how we achieved that.

February 2020 – Quarantine and Quarter of a Million!

We saved 67% of our income in February 2020. I worked from home for two weeks because of our trip to China. And our net worth reached 250'000 CHF!