In the week of the 18th of December we spend the week in Pennsylvania, USA for business, my last business travel of the year 2018. At that moment, I had no real plans for Christmas celebration. A colleague gave me the idea to spend the Christmas weekend in the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Düsseldorf is a city […]
When it comes to buying vs. renting a house, there is always a passionate debate about which makes the most financial sense. Recently I read in an Investors Facebook group an interesting calculation making the comparison between buying a house or renting and investing. The author Jim S. made a comparison between buying a house […]
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 […]
On the 14th of February of the year 2017, we launched our blog. I did chose Valentine’s day as my official launch day as it would be a day that I always remember. Today we are launching our new restyled homepage. Many people ask me why the name DividendCake. Dividend Cake is a contamination […]
Recently I read on the blog website of ThePoorSwiss his reflection on “Emergency Fund – Do you really need one ?“. As a married couple, he has build up an emergency fund of around 13.000 Euro. His strategy is to reduce this emergency fund going forward. In the FIRE bloggers community there is lot of […]
In our 2018 Financial and Travel Objectives blog post, we jotted down on nr 3″Plan and relax two weeks somewhere in the world with the family for a SUMMER vacation”. During the year, after paying ourselves first in our investment portfolio, we set aside month after month vacation money (Layer 3 in our Financial Strategy – […]
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 […]
On June 10th, it was Happy Father’s day. A day where I reflected on the three things I want to teach our kids. Read the blogpost if you missed it. Happy Father’s Day : The Three Things I want to teach our kids During our summer vacation I realized there is ONE IMPORTANT VALUE that […]
Today it is a relaxing sunny morning in the Tuscan hills close to Pieve Fosciana. The family is still sleeping and relaxing from a long day yesterday at Florence, Italy. At 7.30 AM we headed to the city. A 2.15 hour drive from where our vacation house is located. Since my parking ticket in Lucca […]
Vacation time has arrived…the family is now in Tuscany in Italy. We rented a vacation house with a pool and jacuzzi. Take a look at our current vacation house in the mountains close to Lucca. Vacation time is the time where I can grab a couple of books for reading. I don’t like reading all […]