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Apartment progress: 30%; finally above ground!

Delays are normal in life. A train that’s delayed because the machinist overslept, bad weather causing you to get stuck in traffic and arrive late at work.
A lot of them are due to circumstance and you can’t do much about them. However, my apartment that only now has reached ground level clearly didn’t just have delays due to Force Majeure from Corona.

Startling Extra Costs To Get A Better Turnkey Apartment

While we are crawling closer to the delivery date of our baby girl (27 May), there is another delivery that is causing more headaches: my heavily delayed turnkey apartment.
Progress is being made of course, but at the current speed, I shouldn’t expect a delivery sooner than March 2022. Given these delays, I was startled when I recently received a mail about the fit and finish of my delayed turnkey apartment. My shock continued when I saw the standard finish and how much they charge for extras.

My Gamestop experience and how I gain(ed) from it

We can stay retarded longer than you can remain solvent” – some autist on r/WallStreetBets

Yes, I confess, I too had shares in GameStop (Ticker: GME). To tackle the elephant in the room, I bought 25 GameStop shares at 40 USD.

Quarterly Portfolio Report - growing stack of coins

Quarterly Portfolio Report – Q4 2020

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Total portfolio worth (all in)

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Total portfolio worth (Savings & Effects)

Here we are, at yet another year-end. This is the third time I close my portfolio; and how! What a ride. Corona had a huge impact on me personally but also on my financial situation and in a good way even!

My monthly Savings Rate report: December 2020

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December Savings Rate

December, the month of Christmas and New Years’. Lots of celebrations meaning some bigger expenses. This wasn’t any different this year even with corona. We just did it on our own and just handed over the gifts outside. We went a little wild with food but my income was higher so it balanced things out a little bit.