Living in the French-speaking Swiss countryside has many advantages, but also some disadvantages including flies and mosquitoes... This year, we decided to take measures and install (ourselves) mosquito nets - which allowed us to save large chunks of money.

"My shortest path to FIRE is the one that brings the most money in, and ensures the same level (or more) of freedom, meaning, and time with family as I have nowadays in 2018." This is the new guiding principle that I follow when I need to assess any new life opportunity.

Degiro is a player that seems to be here to stay amongst the discount brokers. As I keep a close eye on them, I asked my mate The Poor Swiss to share his Degiro experience with us today.

Three years ago, I started the #BSRI to track bloggers' savings rate and get inspired by the ones that manage to reach crazy figures every month. It's now time to review the 2017 final index!

It's been four years that I started to share with you my journey towards financial independence in order to inspire you. Let's celebrate (quickly) this birthday, before I take a wrting break for a few months...

After almost 4 years of blogging, I realized that some new readers didn't quite get what was the meaning of "being Mustachian". It was time to fix this situation.

Last week, I presented you experimentation's project with crypto-currencies. Being a rookie myself, I then had to face the first questions that any investor has to ask himself, namely: which portfolio to choose, which online brokerage platform to select, and how to buy/store concretely my first bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies?

The countdown to Christmas has begun, and we can feel the excitement in the MP family: the children are preparing their list, and we, parents, are preparing the brief for Santa Claus. We gave him "experience" gift ideas so that our kids don't only receive toys this year (that take up space and fall too quickly into oblivion).

So far, as a long-term investor, I forced myself to not hop on the volatile and risky train of cryptocurrencies. Then I decided to see this as a learning opportunity. I will therefore invest a maximum amount clearly defined from the start, and make a regular report of the evolution of my new portfolio of digital currencies.

A few years ago, I was buying an iPhone every 1 to 2 years, and a Mac laptop every 3 years. This represented a budget of CHF 130 per month... A too large amount that was only delaying our financial independence. So I set myself the goal to wait for 6 years before buying any new product from Apple.