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Beauty Case

Good morning RIP minions! Today we’ll take a look at the minimalist body care of a FI seeker. I told you about my last visit to Hooliland, didn’t I? Well, let’s take a look at my travel beauty case: What a big bag! It will surely be full of products!

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Big Spender

Hi RIP fellows, This post is about splurges. I’ve previously mentioned that I spend ~60K CHF per year, on track for the unambitious prize of the least frugal FIRE seeker of the world. So let’s show off how I burn my money by the thousands! Actually no, this is not

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Boredom

Hi RIPpers! Few days ago RIP Sr came to visit me in Switzerland for the weekend. It has been a nice August weekend, with very good weather (28 Celsius) and plenty of activities for him: swimming, e-biking, walking, barbecuing with a dozen of friends… he’s no more used to live at

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FU Number

Hi RIP friends! Today we have another post in The Principles series, where I: introduce fundamental philosophical/economical concepts. show my vision/interpretation of them. help you understand the subject from other points of view linking other online resources. describe my own strategies and other thoughts on the same topic. I’ve shown what is Financial Independence, why I

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Withdrawal Rate

Hi readers! Welcome to another post of The Principles series, where I: introduce fundamental philosophical/economical concepts. show my vision/interpretation of them. help you understand the subject from other points of view linking other online resources. describe my own strategies and other thoughts on the same topic. Today I’m going to talk

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Financial Freedom

Here I’m going to write my first post on a new series on Principles. I’m going to introduce concepts that are widely know to the Personal Finance community that you, my dear reader, may not be very familiar with. I’m going to talk about higher values and my philosophical and ethical approach to personal

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Random Inspirations from incidentalcomics

Every once in a while I’ll share inspirational post/picture/quotes, just for fun. To inaugurate the category here we have a cool picture from one of my favorites artists: Grant Snider. His blog is populated with these single collage pictures with a central topic and a small story around that, which is

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July 2016 Financial Update

Note: to get the most recent Financial Update take a look at the finances category of my blog 😉 Hi all, sadly July 2016 is over and summer here in Switzerland – I really love summer – is mostly gone. Anyway, as a (hopefully) regular routine for every end of the

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My Financial Story – Chapter 8 – Dream Jobs Left

This is the eighth and last chapter in my financial story series. In the previous chapter I showed you how I became rich moneywise. Here I’ll show you why I’d like to become rich timewise. July 2020 Update: the series is not over! You can read about the dark side of my Hooli experience on chapter

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My Net Worth

Today I’m going to take another small break before the “season finale” of my financial and professional story and I’ll introduce my Net Worth spreadsheet. September 2020 UPDATE: I wrote a series of posts about my Net Worth Spreadsheet which is more up to date than this old post. Check

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