Reaching financial independence with savings, hard work and simple living
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
