For the past three months, I’ve been pretty inactive on my blog or any social media. Personally I haven’t taken a plane since March 2020. The world is a different place where travel, tourism and life has been impacted forever as long as there’s no vaccine available to protect ourselves. Why I’m Taking A Break […]
The past weeks have been quiet on our blog. When it’s quite on our blog, remember…I am working on something BIG !! Since January 2020, we have been working on the startup of our new company Dividend Cake. Today I am informing you about the progress of our new startup. Why are we starting a […]
The New Year brings us all a fresh start – a clean slate – a new chapter of our life waiting to be lived out. A new year holds great promise for everyone. This is finally the new year that we will focus on a major breakthrough… this is the year that we focus on […]
Christmas and New Year were perfect times to relax and focus on 2020 objectives write up. The year 2020 kicked off quickly with the normal life rhythm of school for the kids and business objectives at work. This means also a lot of business travel. The first trip in 2020 was a business trip to […]
One of the 2019 Travel objectives is our honeymoon that we delayed for several reasons and years now. At the time that you read this blogpost, myself and Mrs Dividendcake are enjoying our honeymoon in one of the following islands. The only travel booking condition that Mrs Dividendcake has given to me, was “Please book […]
Vacation time has arrived…the family is now in the Corsica Isle. We rented a vacation house on Airbnb close to the beach. Take a look at how beautiful Corsica is. Vacation time is the time where I can grab a couple of books for reading. I don’t like reading all the time in one book. […]
This week I am in the USA and the way Americans manage money always strikes me. They use credit cards to pay their bills, they have credit scores for debt, etc… On the 13th of June, I read this article on the website of World Economic Forum 1. A quarter of Americans have no retirement […]
In the beginning of May, I went to Budapest for a European bloggers conference about personal finance and financial freedom. As I didn’t have the time to discover the city, I decided to make another trip to this beautiful city. Budapest, Hungary’s capital, is bisected by the River Danube. Its 19th-century Chain Bridge connects the […]
The elections campaign is in full speed in Belgium. And we only hear one message “let the rich people pay more taxes !”. One party talks about a wealth repository (with even your wine and books collection, how crazy can it get?) and the other party wants more than 12 billion ADDITIONAL taxes. In today’s […]
Investing money starts with informing yourself and learning how others do it. Two years ago I did meet a couple (Let’s call them Robert & Emma) at a bloggers meetup in Holland. This couple retired at the age of 30+ years old. Now this couple organizes yearly an event with the name FIWE (Financially Independent […]