After having spent two weekends on this website, one reading up the blogs and one on reading the forum, I am now ready to register and post.
I am Dutch, I am an aspiring mustachian but not completely there yet. Some mustachian stats to get to know me:
- second hand car, fully paid, but a bicycle as well (hey, I am Dutch, I should have two, but that is not mustachian I think...)
- 1/3 of the mortgage paid off in the last 3 years, hope to clear the mortgage in 4 or 5 more years
- Living on 60% of pay, currently all savings go to the mortgage. Working full time.
- Some shares as part of previous mortgage which included shares, which seemed like a good idea in 1998. They have only started to recover since last year. No active investment plans until mortgage is paid off.
- My house is way to big for me, but I love it and will not part with it, my home is truly my castle. No facepunches please :-) I can split it and rent out one half should this become required in the future, or as part of my early retirement planning.
I am happy to have found this blog and forum. Despite the fact that most of my friends and family are frugal and sensible with money, no-one is aspiring to stop working before the regular pension age. With current regulations I would have to work until I am almost 69, I want to stop working at 57, which is in 9 years time, earlier is not possible I think, which does not mean I will not try...