How Expensive is Living in Sweden?

Before moving to Sweden everyone told me how expensive it would be to live here. Even fellow bloggers scoffed at the prospect of the _Saving_Ninja moving to Sweden!? The country with one of the highest income tax and VAT rates in the world! I wouldn’t be able to call myself the SavingNinja for much longer, they said. When I first arrived here, I found it hard to swallow the insanely high food prices, it seemed everything that we usually bought back in the UK was at least 3 times as expensive, sometimes even more than that....

September 17, 2021 · 12 min · SavingNinja

Savings Report #38 - Becoming a Book Author

Click here to see all of my past Savings Reports and view my interactive net worth chart Go to How To Track Your Savings to check out the Saving Ninja Super Spreadsheet. The markets rebounded a little this month earning my portfolio a 2.33% gain across the board. I’m in slightly uncharted territory right now as my net worth and invested amount goals for the year were 250k and 200k. I flew past those figures already and there are still 4 months left of 2021!...

September 6, 2021 · 4 min · SavingNinja

Savings Report #37 - Swedish Road Trip

Click here to see all of my past Savings Reports and view my interactive net worth chart Go to How To Track Your Savings to check out the Saving Ninja Super Spreadsheet. Another month, another slow upward climb of my finances. My pre-pension pot is growing quite nicely, almost at that special £100k figure. Although it sucks that £60k of that is in a UK ISA which would be subject to 30% capital gains tax if I ever withdrew it whilst living in Sweden....

August 5, 2021 · 5 min · SavingNinja

Savings Report #36 - 3 Years of Savings

Click here to see all of my past Savings Reports and view my interactive net worth chart Go to How To Track Your Savings to check out the Saving Ninja Super Spreadsheet. This is my 36th Savings Report. I’ve been writing to you, every month, for 3 years in a row. Crazy, right? Let’s use this anniversary to take a trip down memory lane… I posted my first Savings Report in 2018 at 27 years old with £24,954 in total investments, ****£14,154 in my pension and £10,800 in my pre-pension accounts....

July 2, 2021 · 6 min · SavingNinja

Savings Report #35 - I'm Turning into a Spendy Pants

Click here to see all of my past Savings Reports and view my interactive net worth chart Go to How To Track Your Savings to check out the Saving Ninja Super Spreadsheet. Hello guys! This is the latest I’ve posted a monthly update in almost 3 years. Sorry about that. I’ve been experiencing some site outages due to going above 100% CPU on my free Google Cloud hosting tier. This started randomly happening so I was reluctant to upgrade to the standard tier....

June 12, 2021 · 8 min · SavingNinja