If you’re daft enough to read this blog regularly, you’ll have heard me mention that I’ve been looking for a way to give to charity regularly, within my limited means (I study part-time) and without concentrating on one or a couple of causes to the exclusion of all others. I think we should donate either time…
If you take a look at my blogroll, you’ll see that not all the blogs I read are in English. This week I’d like to share with you a post from a Russian-language blog written by Anastasiya Milkova called O bogatstve, which translates literally as About wealth. It’s an excellent blog with a down-to-earth approach…
If you’re anything like me, you probably think you’re not really taken in by advertising. That’s what I usually think, but every now and then I’m jolted into thinking otherwise. Most recently, after a rare half-hour spent watching TV – I’m one of the few people who try to watch more TV rather than less…
Some people seem always to have had their heads screwed on properly where money’s concerned. For instance, Mr Money Mustache and the guy behind Brave New Life either retired or switched to part-time work in their 30s with their mortgages already paid off. I, on the other hand, am 35 and hoping to take out…
Here’s the thing. When I decided we should track our spending last month, I thought it was just to smooth out any rough edges, find anything we might be paying too much for. But it turns out our spending habits are terrible, and not at all what you’d expect from someone from blogs about being…
It’s 3 pm on a Wednesday and you’ve just got home. Your other half will be back soon too, with the children – you both work full-time – so you make a drink and a snack for all of you. You had a good lunch so you’re not hungry yet, but you’ll need plenty to…
So far I’ve talked a lot about money, but actually of the two things in the title of this post it’s time that’s more important. Money flows in and out, but time goes in one direction only, and there’s nothing you can do to change that (unless you’re going to get into some very weird…
You can easily be misinterpreted when you give advice or advocate a particular point of view, so I thought I’d clear up any confusion before it arises. That way I can refer people with queries here and won’t have to keep spending time explaining things (mwaaahahahaha!). This is what I’m NOT saying: That cheaper is…
One of the most important things I want to talk about on this blog is the trade-off between working time and free time. We all need money: as my salt-of-the-earth grandfather used to say, the only time you’ll ever not need to think about money is if you already have lots of it. The fact…
So what are those changes I’ve made in the last 18 months? In early April 2013 I’d decided to move to the Netherlands, and I’d found a house here, but I was still living in Switzerland. I didn’t want to stay there permanently: I’d moved there in 2011 to study. I decided I was willing…
