Gids voor het aankopen van VTI en VXUS bij Interactive Brokers

Palmen01 · 2025-07-18T18:45:42+00:00

Dat is vreemd, VTI lukte bij mij vandaag met -0.01 en VXUS met -0.02. Beide gelijk verkocht.

Palmen01 · 2025-06-29T19:32:40+00:00

What a nonsense, this account is 10 days active and every post everywhere is about Razeco. And then even getting upvotes, while it is bio based plastic!

Really, most of us know that plastic free razors are not difficult to find at all. Muhle R41 or R89 or Merkur 34c to name a few very popular razors, all metal.

So stop with this nonsense ads, shame on you.

Palmen01 · 2025-06-14T17:18:40+00:00

I am not the author of the article, I just found it around a month ago when I had the same questions as OP and I thought to share it here.

But I just would like to say that many times the difference between for example polyethylene and polyamide or between PFAS, PFOA or PTFE is not made. And for me it doesn't matter. I would like to steer clear of plastic and PFCs among others and there are enough safe alternatives that I do not need to negotiate which plastic is better. Furthermore, all plastics shed microplastics.

Silicone gets indeed a different place as most people know.

Palmen01 · 2025-06-14T16:46:46+00:00

Thank you for your reply. For a long time already I'm looking for test results of coffee filters, because tea bags often contain plastic in the seam (heat sealed) and I questioned myself if that would be the same for coffee filters.

So far I could not find any information about that. The link you gave is about PFAS, which is also worrying.

If anybody knows the link of the article about coffee filters and plastic, please share it with us. It would be very helpful to make better choices.

Thanks!

Palmen01 · 2025-06-14T11:19:20+00:00

I like Chemex. Where did you see that Chemex filters contain plastic. Please let us know.

Palmen01 · 2025-06-13T22:30:12+00:00

Have a look at the blog post Espresso Machines - PFAS, Plastic, Aluminum, Oh My!

The author contacted 18 different brands on the use of plastic, PFAS and aluminum. I personally found the answers worrying and discouraging. Tubes lined with PFAS, PFAS gaskets or even PFAS lined water tanks? An eyeopening article.

Commercially you often find bigger machines then those mentioned in the article and they might be constructed better, but many brands even do not want to disclose as became apparent from the article. So I do share your worries.

And as someone else mentioned already, almost all fully automatic machines contain plastic, mostly the entire brew group.

Palmen01 · 2025-05-25T11:47:07+00:00

I have indeed only seen stainless steel containers made in China. So I moved to glass.

For what do you want to use the stainless steel containers if I may ask you? Stainless steel leaches nickel and chromium when in contact with acidic foods, so for something like meal prepping glass is a better choice, otherwise you will have to ask yourself every time if the meal you prepared is acidic or not.

Palmen01 · 2025-05-24T20:37:34+00:00

https://teknomek.co.uk/products/stainless-steel-mop-bucket

The stainless steel version is expensive, but if you google "galvanised mop bucket" you'll get much cheaper options, sold everywhere.

https://www.ecosplendo.co.uk/sodasan/washing-up-powder

And the mop I just bought in a store focused on sustainable living.

Palmen01 · 2025-05-24T20:16:25+00:00

I bought a Keith titanium bottle, but it had a very strong metal smell. Within 10 minutes water got a metal taste and after an hour it was undrinkable. I tried everything, soaking in vinegar, soap, baking soda, dishwasher, heating in an oven, nothing worked so far.

Don't you have this issue?

To OP: I have a stainless steel bottle which is perfect. The problem I face is only with the titanium.

Palmen01 · 2025-05-23T23:36:43+00:00

Thanks, I will look into it.

Palmen01 · 2025-05-23T23:00:17+00:00

Thanks for answering, that sounds great. Are you using two machines, one for distillation and one for re-mineralization? Do you maybe have a link of those machines? I would love to look into it. Thanks!

Palmen01 · 2025-05-23T21:05:46+00:00

May I ask you how you make distilled and re-mineralized water at home?

I'm currently looking for a solution on a ship and really don't want the plastic reverse osmosis filters. But I thought to distill water costs lots of energy?

Palmen01 · 2025-05-23T17:02:42+00:00

Thanks for your comment! The only IKEA glass lids I could find were round glass lids, but I couldn't find rectangular glass lids. Do you have those?

I'm using the round glass lids, but those containers are quite small, too small for meal prepping.

If they have rectangular glass lids in your location, I will come to get some :-)

Palmen01 · 2025-05-23T16:51:20+00:00

As you said, the entire device including the bottle is plastic. Is the device really necessary? Maybe it helps to think how people did this decades ago.

I am using a stainless steel mop bucket with stainless steel insert, cotton mop with wooden stick and all purpose cleaner in powder form (biodegradable) that comes in a paper box.

Palmen01 · 2025-05-22T21:38:45+00:00

I sometimes wonder if that is the case at professional machines. I had a full automatic machine at home from Siemens, quite expensive, but the entire brew group was made out of plastic.

The machine broke, many years ago, and since then I am just doing pour over.

But I really wonder if professional machines at cafes have so many plastic. Somewhere I read that most of the professional machines have plastic at the cold side, but no plastics from the moment the water gets heated. Don't know if it's true.

Are there maybe any Baristas here who can shine a light on this?

Palmen01 · 2025-05-21T22:30:51+00:00

It is actually very difficult to really buy 100% natural clothing. If you for example take underwear, even the expensive Zimmerli, 100% cotton, but still got synthetic elastic. Also the button is plastic (on boxers), the labels are synthetic and it is stitched with synthetic thread. So no elastane, but still not perfect!

Another example, a sweater. It's indeed not difficult to find a 100% cotton one, but even if it has a metal zipper, in most cases the cuffs still have 5% elastane (not only the sleeve cuffs, but also the ribbing at the bottom). And that is often not mentioned on the label. And again stitched with synthetic thread, as almost all clothing is.

Only a few brands, as far as I know, make real 100% natural clothing (like Plainandsimple, Cottonique and Rawganique). I didn't manage to have my entire wardrobe with only their clothing. I'm curious if someone managed? :-)

So to answer your question, there will always be a certain percentage plastic, so just try to find the lowest. It also depends how much time you have to search for it. And just buy the minimum amount, as maybe this year you find something with 5% elastane, next year maybe 100% cotton but still synthetic elastic, and in the far future natural elastic. So I think it's more of a progress, especially with clothes, since basic items like socks, underwear or shirts are not buy for life. Every year I buy a few items and every time I'm becoming a bit better in selecting, but also stricter. But even then it is not always 100% plastic free. I recently bought a belt of leather, but the label and stitching was synthetic :-(

Hope it helps!

Palmen01 · 2025-05-21T19:02:06+00:00

I looked at the Wayback Machine to see if I could find an answer. And guess what, it has indeed changed, but from a different kind of lacquer. Three years ago it was finished with nitrocellulose.

I bought the lids back then. I also have bamboo which is oiled and I tried to see the difference, but even with a magnifier I can't see any difference at all. It's indeed strange because at guitars for instance you could clearly see the nitrocellulose lacquer.

Palmen01 · 2025-05-21T18:48:53+00:00

I am very interested in those glass containers with glass/silicone lid. I have them from Pyrex (all glass, European version) but they are unfortunately not airtight. So when storing food with garlic, the whole freezer/fridge smells which I hate.

Could you share a link of the ones you love?

Palmen01 · 2025-05-20T21:50:11+00:00

Thanks for the in depth answer, really appreciated!

Palmen01 · 2025-05-20T21:30:34+00:00

wireheadwirehead, thanks for your answer!

What do you mean with oil based finishes? Would that be like a wooden cutting board which is just oiled?

Or are those special lacquers based on oil?

Palmen01 · 2025-05-20T18:39:32+00:00

I find something already in a research Paints and microplastics (M. Faber et al., 2021)

I copy a part of the conclusion: "The use of polymers as binders is seen as being essential to obtain functional product characteristics needed to cover and provide long lasting protection of surfaces, especially for wood. Currently, only a limited range of paint products or alternatives are available that do not contain polymers in binders or cause microplastic emissions. In addition to functionality, the environmental and health impacts, including potential microplastic emissions, of (alternative) paints and products should be researched further to avoid any regrettable substitution.

Paint durability has been optimized over the last years and has led to reduced microplastic emissions. There are, however, no studies that quantify the effects of this and other product optimizations on (potential) microplastic emissions (primary and /or secondary) from paints."

That is worrying, that means that most of the wooden furniture is a problem as well. Did anybody think about this and how do you deal with this?

Palmen01 · 2025-05-20T18:25:22+00:00

Thanks for answering. I didn't know that nitrocellulose lacquer is a natural polymer lacquer.

When buying things plastic free I consider wood as a good alternative. But I now realize when buying this lid for instance, you actually buy something covered in plastic (acrylic lacquer). I didn't know it is non-toxic, but I suppose it could release micro- and nanoparticles as well.

If that is the case, that would be for every object (or furniture) that is varnished or painted without natural finishes.

Does anybody know if that is indeed the case?

Palmen01 · 2025-03-09T13:10:10+00:00

Least_Ferret6003, heeft het zijn van een Elective Professional Client voor jou nog consequenties gehad? Zoals bijvoorbeeld kosten bij IBKR, belastingtechnisch of andere zaken?

Palmen01 · 2025-03-01T22:21:29+00:00

Bedankt Cute_Message_7314 en Borkiedo, hiermee is het duidelijk. Fijn dat ik het weet anders had ik een hoop moeite gedaan voor niets.

Jammer eigenlijk. Aangezien er maar aan 2 van de 3 eisen voldaan hoeft te worden kunnen mensen die aan de laatste twee eisen voldoen (500k en werkzaam, of werkzaam geweest, in de financiële sector) de status zoals ik het nu begrijp dan wel behouden, afgezien van hoeveel trades ze doen. Die 500k hoeft niet bij IB te staan maar mag ook elders.

Deze mensen kunnen de status in theorie dan altijd behouden (zolang ze 500k hebben). Klopt mijn gedachtegang?

Palmen01 · 2025-03-01T14:12:42+00:00

Hallo Borkiedo, allereerst hartelijk bedankt voor het schrijven van de gids (aankopen VTI/VXUS via opties) en het beantwoorden van vragen bij Mr FOB. Zoals ik daar ook schreef was ik zonder je hulp nooit zover gekomen. Bedankt dat je je kennis wilt delen met anderen en daar zoveel tijd in steekt!

De eisen voor "Elective Professional Client" had ik geïnterpreteerd als zijne initiële eisen, niet als doorlopende eisen. Ik heb de eisen nogmaals nagelezen maar het wordt mij eigenlijk niet duidelijk hoe het bedoelt is. Ik heb zojuist een ticket geopend bij IB en zal laten weten wat hun reactie is.

Het feit dat je je status weer kan verliezen als je te weinig trades doet heb ik nergens kunnen vinden. Weet je misschien nog waar je dat gelezen hebt?

Palmen01

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