Mr. FightToFIRE

Ditching Active Funds Account For New Competitive Interactive Brokers Account

After 6 years and 1 month or 2243 days, I finally ended it. I ditched my actively managed portfolio at Beobank. While the performance was decent, it was nowhere near as good as my own portfolio nor even the performance of the popular All-world tracker VWCE.

My monthly Savings Rate report: October 2021

October Savings Rate

With October passed, we are well into the last part of the year. It means I’m getting closer to my trip abroad and thus the first flight with our daughter.

Best Belgian Grocery store: Colruyt vs Lidl

Cheapest Supermarket in Belgium (2026): Colruyt vs Lidl vs Aldi

A question that comes back frequently with my readers and people, in general, is how they can save money on groceries. Food and water are essential to survive, so it's hard to imagine saving money on this. But it's possible! I will go over two big grocery stores (at the moment), Colruyt and Lidl, and compare a selection of their products.

Apartment progress: 50%; rough construction finally finished!

An update was long overdue, but until mid-August not much had really changed as they were still busy with rough construction. Because they continued working during the yearly Belgian construction leave, the construction company finished rough construction on the heavily delayed schedule.

My monthly Savings Rate report: September 2021

September Savings Rate

My September reached an extreme expense level. And it’s all due to one thing: plane tickets. I recently wrote about why we decided to buy plane tickets at arguably the most expensive period to fly, especially international. Because of this major purchase, my expenses skyrocketed and made me go negative for the first time since I started blogging. But, it’s not the only thing that pushed me over the edge.