Blog Post of the Month – November 2018

The article with the most clicks on Firehub.eu in November appeared on the blog Financial Independence Ireland. The author’s father, “a strong believer in socialist protectionism”, comes up with some common objections to investing and saving. In this well-structured article, the blogger has a closer look at these objections and compares her situation with her brother’s. She also puts it in an Irish context (pension plans, taxes – and buying a round of drinks!) and gives us her personal version…

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Noemi

2018-12-03

Blog Post of the Month, Managing Money, Pension Plans, Real Estate

Please Welcome Our New Bloggers (November 2018)

Please Welcome Our New Bloggers (November 2018) Wow, it’s already the end of November – how did that happen? This month on FIREhub we’ve added quite a few new blogs, and we’re especially happy to welcome our first ever Macedonian and Estonian bloggers. It seems like the FIRE message is spreading to all corners of Europe. The only corner we’re missing is Iceland. Hello up there – any volunteers? Anyway, enough rambling. Here are the new blogs for November. Welcome…

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Emma

2018-11-30

New Blogs

Cheesy Finance in the Media by @CheesyFinance

Cheesy Finance in the Media? I say #fakenews! But the responses were fun to read 😉

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Cheesy Finance

2018-11-30

Interviews

WHY WOULD ANYONE WRITE A BLOG?!? by @TheEscapeART1ST

In this post, Barney from The Escape Artist shares his reasons for blogging and why he started his blog.

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Ms ZiYou

2018-11-09

Blogging

Announcing the Winners of Our 1st Birthday Competition!

Back a the start of October we launched a competition to celebrate FIREhub.eu’s 1st birthday. We asked you to tell us what you like about FIREhub and give us some suggestions on how we can improve and what new features you’d like to see. A big thank you to all of you who sent us suggestions. Today we’re happy to announce the winners, who will each get an FI book of their choice (drumroll please…). 1st Place: { in·deed·a·bly }…

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Emma

2018-11-07

Blogging Birthdays

Blog Post of the Month – October 2018: @TheIndeedably

Here at FIREhub.eu we checked our statistics and found that one article has received more clicks than any of the other articles we handpicked for you in October. The article of the month is “Lessons from retirement” and it appeared on the blog @indeedably. If you haven’t had the chance to read it, go for it. The author is a good observer and doesn’t skip the downsides of his experiences with early retirement.

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Noemi

2018-11-06

Blog Post of the Month

Please Welcome Our New Bloggers (October 2018)

We’re happy to announce that the gentle flow of new blogs being submitted to us has now become a tidal wave. We can hardly keep up with them all but we’re really happy to discover each new blog. Our community is growing guys! So from now on we’ll be welcoming our new bloggers once a month rather than once a quarter, otherwise these posts will just get stupidly long. This month we’ve reached a big milestone: 200 European FI blogs!…

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Emma

2018-11-01

New Blogs

Brit FI Rules OK

Clickbaity titles such as “10 ways to riches…” are annoying Mr. Fu Mon Chu. Do you also suffer from blogfatigue?

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Noemi

2018-10-20

Blogging

Happy Birthday FIREhub!

Yup, it’s hard to believe, but FIREhub is one year old. It really doesn’t feel like a whole year has passed since six of us gathered around a whiteboard during FIWE Extra 2017 and brainstormed about our big new idea for building a home for the European FI community. A lot has happened since then, and a lot continues to happen. We’ve put a lot of work into FIREhub but we’ve also had a lot of fun building it and…

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Emma

2018-10-05

Blogging Birthdays

WIRED FOR FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE? : AN IMMIGRANT’S STORY

Ken from The Humble Penny tells his story as a guest post on The Escape Artist.

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Ms ZiYou

2018-10-03

Interviews