Three months until the year end. Coming months I have plugged in several investors events in my calendar. Also some abroad. One of the events that interested me, was the presentation of Sam Hollanders. I did meet Sam personally during past VFB investors events and I was interested in his way of looking at companies […]
Recently the Belgian newspaper “Het Laatste Nieuws” HLN published an article “about how much money you need to save to maintain your life standards during your retirement. The roaring title of the article was ” 85x saving your salary- how do you do that?”. When I read an article from a journalist about personal finance, […]
Teaching kids financial literacy is something most parents don’t care about. They expect schools to take care of it. The blogpost today reflects on events that passed in our family during the past months. Several months ago our daughter asked 10 Euro for the purchase of 800 R$ Virtual Money in her game Bloxburg. At […]
Last year we wrote our Version 1 of our Financial Freedom Strategy. If you missed this blogpost, you can read it here by clicking the link below. My Gameplan Version 1 to Financial Freedom Today I want to update my gameplan version 1 to financial freedom to a Version 2.0. During the past year we […]
Today’s blog post is about a recent event that occured in our family life. The loyal followers of our blog know that last year in August we got married in South-America. If you missed the blog post, you can click the link below of the 9th September. New Lifetime Milestone : Married In that blog […]
In June, Belgian working employees receive their vacation money as an extra to their regular salary. So hurray the extra money comes in our bank account…what can we do with this extra money ? Let’s list the 5 things you can do with this extra money and reflect back what we did with it. 1. […]
On Saturday 5th of May, VFB organized his second event of Financial planning. Last year we did attend this event as well and wrote this blog post about our key learnings. VFB event – Financial Planning : what did we learn ? Last year around 100 people attended this event and this year even more […]
During the year 2018, we focus on visiting interesting tourist spots in Belgium. Recently we visit the Royal Greenhouses in Laeken, Brussels. We wrote the blogpost Belgium Must-See : Royal Greenhouses in Laeken about that visit On the 1st May we planned another day trip, a visit to the animal park Pairi Daiza in Brugelette. Here is […]
During the early 2000’s I owned an Apple store. I was one of the first Apple users in the late ’90s. Unfortunately I sold the business before the iPhone was launched. During that time frame I did meet a lot of creative entrepreneurs in the music, video and photography industry. Some of those entrepreneurs are […]
During the year 2018, we also focus on visiting interesting tourist spots in Belgium. On Sunday 22nd of April, we headed to Laeken in Brussels and visited this hot tourist spot. Every spring, the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken are open to the public for 3 weeks. This time from 21 April till 11 May 2018 […]