Carnival of Financial Independence, 12th edition

Time to go home

Good morning! After three months at RFI, the Carnival of Financial Independence is ready to travel, so let me know if you would like to host a future edition!   Welcome to the 11th edition of the Carnival of Financial Independence, a selection of the best articles related to Financial Independence this week. If you [...]

Friday recap, a new site and politeness

self portraits are always pretty weird...

Random life news Every time I go back to France, I am expected to be pretty much the same person I left months ago, and a year ago, and so on back to 2003 when I first left for a year. People go back to their routines, their jobs, their stressed lives, and I go [...]

Lessons learned from an investment gone wrong

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    As you may know by now, I enjoy high risk/reward investments as part of my investing strategies. Being young, healthy, and with a sought-after degree in business, I can still go back to work if the plan was all too risky, but so far, things have been going quite well. Except for that [...]

4 Mistakes I Made When I First Started Investing

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  When I was a kid, I had (and still do have) great parents who talked about a lot of interesting things, especially around the dinner table. Driving to school with dad was a real treat, as he’d teach me about all sorts of things, such as What is the Difference Between Protestants and Puritans [...]

A forced emergency fund

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Good morning! Want to listen to something new and fun today? OG and Average Joe just launched a brand new podcast called Stacking Benjamins, and chose the awesome Shannon of The Heavy Purse to present activities you can do to raise financially smart kids for this very first edition. Here’s the link on iTunes.   When [...]

Defining my dream, little guest house in Guatemala

Cancún, Mexico

Good morning! Today is usually the day for a Guatemalan life recap, so I am publishing a post I wrote back when I got there, about the reasons why I ended up there, hope you like it! Cancún, Mexico. I just flew in, and my dream house, on a little patch of land by a [...]

Carnival of Financial Independence, 11th edition

house guatemala

Welcome to the 11th edition of the Carnival of Financial Independence, a selection of the best articles related to Financial Independence this week. If you would like to be included next week, please submit your post via Blogger Carnivals The guidelines are: You can submit a post that was published during the last month The [...]

Friday recap, family and a scraped site

Anne's fort building kit

I have a big family, especially on my mother’s side. They are 7 siblings, and my grandmother also had 7 siblings who got at least 3 kids each. Even some cousins my age already have 3 or 4 kids. While I know my grandmother’s brothers and sisters and their respective children, my mum’s cousins, I [...]

The cost of living in Guatemala

Lake Atitlán, in beautiful Guatemala

I have been living in Guatemala for three years between 2004 and 2006, and in 2011 for 7 months in between extended European and US travel. This post is more based on my experience then than now because I have bought my house and this region of Northern Guatemala doesn’t have a lot to offer [...]

A change you need to know about

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Good morning! Today I have a guest post from William Cowie from over at Bite the Bullet Investing and Drop Dead Money *I need to know how people can find enough hours in the day to run multiple blogs!*. He also offers a free course on the basics of investing to anyone who didn’t think [...]

Cattle investment part III: they are all gone!

BF's ranch

  This is the third post about how I invested in cattle, this time a lighter read with pictures of how the last sale went, if you want to check what breeding cattle is about and the numbers of the past September sale, you can refer to those two posts.   It is a bittersweet [...]

Pauline’s jacket and life priorities

I have been reconnecting with friends last week and it was so good. My group of closest girlfriends always tries to get together when I am around and we spent a lovely day at the beach, catching up on life and creating new memories. While we were there, my friend’s husband said something like “Oh, [...]


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