My parents got married in early 70s and moved in their current flat in 1974 I guess. Or it was 1973? Doesn’t matter. By income, we were a lower middle class family, even though at that time – and relative to the shitty neighborhood of Rome I grew up –
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March (and February) 2019 Personal Update
Hi RIP friends, as promised on my last financial update, here’s my personal update for last couple of months 🙂 Blog March has been a record month in terms of views and visitors! Wow, and I only published 2 posts! It helped that I got mentioned on RockStar Finance and
Read moreMarch (and February) 2019 Financial Update – 80% of something
Hi RIP friends, I think I’ve missed last month update, and I guess I also promised a January “personal” update, while I only shared my financials. In other words, I’m not sharing personal things since the beginning of 2019. Part of it is intentional: I’m in a delicate moment in my
Read moreETF List 2019 Part 2: World
Hi RIP friends, Welcome to ETF List Part 2 on World / International stocks. Here you can find part 1 on US, where I also introduced the doc and explained the content. TL;DR: I’m building a more detailed version of 2018’s ETF List, and it’s taking a lot of time
Read moreSILLY interview 1: with MustachianPost
Hi dear readers, welcome to my new unexpected (by myself), unscheduled and unplanned first episode of my new post series – that may die after just one episode – named SILLY Interviews! Silly stays for Start Intentional Living your Life, YOLO! And it’s of course an acronym I just made
Read moreETF List 2019 Part 1: USA
Hi RIP friends, I’m working on a new version of the somehow popular (but a bit outdated) 2018 ETF List spreadsheet. It was the output of a 3 persons brainstorming and async collaboration that happened in March-April 2018, during my investments’ spring cleaning. Spring is coming again, this year earlier
Read moreThat time when I made an ETF available on ICTAX
Hi Swiss RIP friends, You know how ETFs and taxes work together in Switzerland, don’t you? If you don’t, I’ve touched the topic in my ETF 101 post, more than a year and half ago. Go read it. See you later bye bye. The central point is that Switzerland doesn’t
Read moreJanuary 2019 Financial Update – back into the two commas club
Hi RIP friends, Welcome to my first Financial Update of 2019! Few things are going to change (as always). There are a lot of new readers around, and I’m lucky enough that many are contacting me for various reasons. I realized that I write my posts assuming that if you’re reading
Read moreWill I be comfortable withdrawing from principal in Early Retirement?
Hi RIP friends, FIRE math is easy, isn’t it? You work for a decade or two (or half), save a shit-ton of money, at least 50% of you income, accumulate accumulate accumulate, experience the good feeling of watching your bank account go up up up, invest invest invest to make
Read moreWhy I don’t like US Tipping rules
Hi RIP friends, I’m in US, visiting Hooliland this week. The weather is awesome even though it’s January. Spending free time biking among pelicans and squirrels is simply amazing. Among the (many) things I don’t like about US, there’s this one that I really, really hate: tips. In US, you tip
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