My net worth and monthly expense, or not.
Many personal finance blogs, especially the ones that would like to talk about their path to FIRE or any other personal financial goal, offer a monthly update of the person, or household, expense and...
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4 rules when using cryptocurrencies
I have planned a series of articles about earning money with cryptocurrencies but first it might be needed to remain some basic rules when you start using, managing and investing cryptocurrencies. Whatever you use...
I made 1000CHF by selling secondhand stuff
There are many time in life where you will end up with stuff you don’t need anymore. You bought something that you end up not using, you want to get rid of stuff before...
Password managers and authentication tools
You have heard it probably many time: you must use a unique password (and if possible several different email addresses or at least email alias) for all your online accounts. As each password must...
Best free banking services with debit cards
How much do you spend for your bank account(s) and credit card(s) in Switzerland? Probably too much. Since I have a bank account, I was 14 year old, thus it wasn’t technically a bank,...
My favorite communication tools
As explained in the Introduction part 6 – Extra Life Under Control, I have witnessed the web evolving from 1.0, 2.0 and now 3.0. While we are at the hedge of Web3.0, the come...
Introduction part 9 – Family changed my life
A couple of years passed since I learn about this FIRE movement (see my previous post) and faster than I can prepare it, I moved from my 2 rooms apartment not so close to...
Introduction part 8 – My failed introduction to FIRE
I’m not inventing anything here, everything I briefly suggested in my previous post exist already for years, many blogs and books document these life styles already. I discovered the FIRE movement some years ago...
Introduction part 7 – Living your extra life the way you want
In the previous chapter of the introduction, Introduction part 6 – Extra Life Under Control, I suggest that you might want to free up some of your time by using software and services that...
Introduction part 6 – Extra Life Under Control
I was born and grow up under the era where internet was born. Later called Web 1.0. Then I was a student growing up and learning a lot during the Web 2.0 revolution. Today...