I enjoy telling our story to my colleagues, friends, and even acquaintances—it makes for a great ice breaker. Recently I led a short session at the XP Days Benelux Conference, designed for people in my particular niche of the software industry called “Extreme Personal Finance”, in which I introduced a group of about 75 people [...]
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The 30-second version Keeping your job costs you money and time. You probably don’t consider these costs when you think about how much money you earn. Most people’s “true” hourly rate is half what they think it is. Your “true” hourly rate also represents how long you have to work to earn $1. Expressing the [...]
I have started reading The Four-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss. When I’d read descriptions and reviews of the book, I formed the opinion that I already intuitively understood many of the principles at work, particularly as regards his steps of elimination and automation. Reading it confirmed what I’d suspected: I had already used these [...]
I had started to write this post as “Saving money at the Farmer’s Market*.” But then I realized that I don’t actually believe in saving money at the farmer’s market: if something looks good or we know we need it, we buy it. We came back from our very first market trip saying, “Well, I [...]
OK, so enough people have been asking me, “How’s the PEI diet going?” that I should probably publicly reiterate, we’re in the very preliminary stages of evaluating the diet, not going whole hog, so to speak. I describe our current eating style as the, “Oh hey, if we were only eating PEI food, this would [...]
We’ve been watching the series 100 Mile Challenge on the Food Network and of course, we’ve always tried to eat as much local food as we can. Remember how we decided to take on a raw food diet a couple of years ago? (Of course, we were assisted by the fact that our oven was [...]
We’ll be disconnecting the internet in a few minutes (the furniture is long gone, so I’m sitting on the floor while Joe naps with cats on a towel) so this will be the last post from Dauphin! In 90 minutes, we’ll catch the little commuter plane to Winnipeg and spend a couple of nights there [...]
The Summerside PEI home (more about the house itself later) will be house #10 for us. Even though we’ll go back down to only owning 9 when we sell the one we currently live in, 10 is a nice little milestone for us. When we envisioned the Dauphin experiment 5 years ago, we didn’t expect [...]
Not to say that we didn’t research the move to Summerside fully before taking the plunge, but now that we’ve decided to go for it, here’s just some of what else we’ve learned about our new town that makes us super excited to move: Island Fair Trade Coffee Co. – On the off chance we [...]
. . . Harder still to make noise.” ~ Page/Robertson My new favourite lyrics. Forgive me for saying too much or too little as I challenge myself to live up to them. It’s a delicate balance.
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