Mr. FightToFIRE

Freelancer Market Volatility: How to Stay Calm When Both Go Wrong

Freelancer market volatility hits differently when your pipeline is also uncertain. An honest look at how I handle both as a Belgian IT freelancer.

Portfolio Update 2026: We Crossed €1 Million. Most of It Is Bricks.

*Looks at last portfolio report, sees Q4 2021* Oops, a lot has changed since then... The last time I published a proper portfolio update, we were still talking about Covid, I was still an employee, the renovation hadn't started, and my daughter was a few months old. That was late 2021. It is now June 2026.

Never too young to invest

I received an interesting newsletter recently from a(n) (online) bank I'm a customer with. According to a Febelfin survey of 1000 young people between 16 and 30 years old, it appears that over 1/5th of them started investing, including a quarter of them during the corona crisis.

Should You Invest in a Garage Box in Belgium? (2026 Update)

This post was originally published in September 2020. The core logic of garage box investing still holds, but a lot has changed since then: registration duties, the EV revolution, mobility policy, and the interest rate environment all look different in 2026. I’ve rewritten this from scratch using current, sourced data.