We have just purchased our first compact LCD projector, the iSival 720P projector, model MP720B1. The demo we saw on Youtube removed most of our doubts that it would work for us. Since I teach public and private courses and one can never be too sure about the projectors on site, I wanted a projector [...]
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We recently spent three months living in Mazatlán Mexico as an experiment in living away from home. We’ve previously written about our goals, the cost of living, and running our businesses from a remote office, and even how to maintain a house from 4600 km away, but what would it take for you to do [...]
We recently spent three months living in Mazatlán Mexico as an experiment in living away from home. We’ve previously written about our goals, the cost of living, and running our businesses from a remote office, but what happens when something goes wrong back home? Our housesitter sent us this photo of our second-storey ceiling crumbling [...]
We recently spent three months living in Mazatlán Mexico as an experiment in living away from home. We’ve previously written about our goals and the cost of living, but we could never leave Canada if we couldn’t keep our businesses running. We’ve written before about our impressions of Tim Ferriss’ The Four-Hour Work Week. In this [...]
Summerside PE offers quite a low cost of living, and for the time being, any other place we try to live will need to compare favorably on basic living expenses. For our purposes, “basic living expenses” includes housing, taxes, insurance, food, electricity, heating or cooling, and communications. Put differently, we need to be warm, dry, [...]
Every few years our personal goals change. In the early 2000s, we wanted to work on our businesses rather than work in them, in the style of the e-Myth. In the mid-2000s, we wanted to shorten our path to retirement, which prompted us to move from Toronto to Dauphin, Manitoba. By 2008 we started to [...]
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 [...]
If you want to try PhoneTag.com’s voicemail-to-email service, Rogers Wireless will force you to remove their voicemail service from your account, which could cost you more!
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 [...]
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