The end of June is coming close and past week the summer has started. During past week I read an interesting headline… When it comes to the take-home pay of the average worker, the United States barely cracks the top 10, trailing several of the European countries that tend to pop up on any number […]
May 2018 is behind us and my mom did travel again last month. She went this time to the Alsace region in France. Alsace is a historical region in northeastern France on the Rhine River plain. Bordering Germany and Switzerland, it has alternated between German and French control over the centuries and reflects a mix […]
In June, Belgian working employees receive their vacation money as an extra to their regular salary. So hurray the extra money comes in our bank account…what can we do with this extra money ? Let’s list the 5 things you can do with this extra money and reflect back what we did with it. 1. […]
Lovely Tuesday evening in London while writing a blog post…time to reflect and plan forward. Do you have a gameplan for your retirement finances ? In below graph you can see the current pension for the different employee types. If you have a business and you didn’t save money for your retirement, you are really […]
On Saturday 5th of May, VFB organized his second event of Financial planning. Last year we did attend this event as well and wrote this blog post about our key learnings. VFB event – Financial Planning : what did we learn ? Last year around 100 people attended this event and this year even more […]
May 2018 with lovely spring weather has arrived in Belgium but my mom decided to travel again. This time she picked the Italian riviera as her final destination. The featured picture for this blog post comes from the town Imperia in Italy. Imperia is a lovely coastal city on the Liguria coast between the French […]
During the early 2000’s I owned an Apple store. I was one of the first Apple users in the late ’90s. Unfortunately I sold the business before the iPhone was launched. During that time frame I did meet a lot of creative entrepreneurs in the music, video and photography industry. Some of those entrepreneurs are […]
Last weekend before school starts again. This time we are writing our blogpost from the city of London. Friday evening we started our city break weekend with our son and we did take the Eurostar from Lille, France. The blog post about this interesting city break weekend follows soon….We use a nice picture from our […]
On the 18th of March, we posted our interview summary blogpost with a Rich Dad Coach. The interview resulted from the 2 day Rich Dad Summit which took place in December last year. Here are the two blog posts of this event : Building A Foundation For Wealth – Rich Dad Summit Building A Foundation […]
April started great with a 2 week april Easter vacation for the kids and Mrs Dividencake and her son finally arriving in Belgium. This time for a new life as family. Easter is also the day where my mom gave the kids a treat with chocolate bunnies. Which one do you like most ? White, […]