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Funny Friday – Kids Edition

Funny Friday – Kids Edition

This is not connecting to this Funny Friday episode, so you can skip it if you want. Earlier this week I wrote about my relationship with Halloween and that finally, I accepted it. Then it passed by without a single sign. This year I have seen no decorations, except in a supermarket. No kids in costumes wandering the streets and no one rang our bell for trick-or-treating. I was surprised and still don’t know why. Maybe never will. This week…

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Money Map Of A Non-Budgeter

Money Map Of A Non-Budgeter

Two weeks ago I confessed that I am a non-budgeter. I tried multiple ways and failed miserably. When I tried to propagate the task of tracking our expenses in an app to my wife her instant question put things into different light. “If I do that and you will see everything in the app what would that change?”. My answer was simply “nothing”. This was the moment when I realized that through the years we half-consciously developed a system which…

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The Best Budget I Never Had

The Best Budget I Never Had

Do you even budget? I have a confession. I don’t budget. Or not really. I have tried. Multiple ways. And I am not trying anymore. Here lies the story which tells why. When you get… “financially confused”, start digging the internet and end up at personal finance blogs this is the first thing they “tell you”. -Do you have a budget? -Uhhmm… No. -What on earth, you should have one. Go, do it now. -Well, Ok… So I did and…

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The best investment advice I can give

The best investment advice I can give

Probably you read already my introductory post and guessed so far that I am not a superstar investor. Thus don’t expect me sharing my ultimate 2000% earner super-hot-handpicked-stock-portfolio or a user manual for how to grow magic beans properly. There are smarter and more skilled bloggers and advisors who can fill this void. To be honest until my thirties from the trinity of Earn-Save-Invest principle only the former two was obvious to me. Earn As a kid, I earned money doing…

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How I fell in love with hatchbacks

How I fell in love with hatchbacks

Yes, I will continue with the seemingly obligatory “car post”. Please don’t be disappointed if you were expecting some wisdom from the past, just read on. Before I start let me confess that I am not a “car guy”. It’s not that I don’t admire the engineering performance, a good design or a feeling, but I’m not that much into it. For me, a car is a metal (are they in these days?) box which brings me from point A…

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Three financial lessons I had to learn early on

Three financial lessons I had to learn early on

In these days when the internet is full of financial lessons, it is very hard to publish some original ones. As I stated on my introductory page repeating well-known facts is not amongst my goals so I will try to introduce you to a few new ones. From my first post, you could already know that I grew up in a little bit different economic environment than you in the US which provided me with some unique experiences. The three…

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Escaping the matrix

Escaping the matrix

Hi fellow FIREstarter, welcome to my corner of the internet! The title of this introductory post could have been “My journey” or something similar, but that would be boring. Like for many fellow thirtysomething millennials “The Matrix” movie made a huge impact on my young mindset so let this title be a salute. That was the first movie I have seen in cinema and I was shocked, inspired and disturbed with a lot of questions at the same time thus can…

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