The potential savings on your Swiss health insurance amounts to CHF 31'297 per decade. Here's how I choose the most frugal option.
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The potential savings on your Swiss health insurance amounts to CHF 31'297 per decade. Here's how I choose the most frugal option.
Continue readingIf you are looking for another even more frugal financial optimization than simple contract changes, then cutting your own hair might be for you. As well as the CHF 4'740 that comes with it in 10 years time.
Continue readingZak blocks bank transfers and payments exceeding CHF 5'000 per day and CHF 10'000 per week for security reasons. But there is a way to override these limits.
Continue readingThe ski season (and snowboarding, snowshoeing, or ski touring in sealskin) is just beginning in Switzerland. However, it is not the most frugal activity we know. Hence the idea to share our good tips :)
Continue readingeBill on Zak is delayed to early 2020 (instead of end of 2019). Here is my plan to overcome it.
Continue readingIf you too want to switch to the free Swiss bank Zak, here is a complete checklist to switch bank that could help you :)
Continue readingEver wondered what is frugalism? Here is the answer!
Continue readingAfter the creation of a common budget for our common couple expenses, I felt a need for simplification and a move to the next level in order to have a common vision, a single common bank account, and a single common YNAB budget. Here's how it happened :)
Continue readingIt's almost five years since we last reviewed our bank setup. With all the new products released in recent years (mainly related to new technologies), it was time to take a fresh look at what's the best Swiss bank for a frugal person in 2019.
Continue readingWhile our financial life followed its course with a common account and expenses split at the pro-rata of our salaries, we always had to manage unexpected invoices... So we decided to create a real budget with YNAB.
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