No, we’re not in Summerside yet, but we consider it a mini-victory to have left Dauphin at all after the massive snow storm that canceled our flight out of town. Mere hours after I wrote the “we’re outta here” post, the snow and wind were just too much for the little prop plane we take [...]
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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 [...]
After about 21 months, we have decided to enter the next chapter of our lives by ending the Dauphin experiment. We have purchased a house in lovely Summerside, PEI, Canada, and plan to move there next month. From today, we live only three more weeks in Dauphin, and of that, we spend a week on [...]
I just saw this “Take Out Menu Organizer” from Thinkgeek. I wonder whether the people who make this even realize that a place like Dauphin exists. *sigh* (Our take out menu organizer, by the way, is the magnet that holds the most recent Pizza Hut flyer on the fridge.) And you wonder why we drink [...]
1. RETIRED – when you wake up, you have the freedom to decide that you don’t want to get out of bed because whether or not you do anything, the bills are still paid through your passive sources of income. 2. RICH – when you wake up, you have the freedom to do anything you [...]
There was a great post on Treehugger recently that I’ve bookmarked for more serious contemplation. Although they may be neither popular, nor well known, there are alternatives to the two major housing options of “buy” vs. “rent.” It seems like every day I personally vacillate between wanting to live in a Parisian apartment overlooking local [...]
…it’s not the reason you might think. Certainly, if I could avoid paying taxes, I would do so; however, this is not the primary reason I would rather live someplace tax-free. My primary reason has to do with the unnecessary and stunning complexity of the tax rules. Today I encountered a particularly delightful example. Consider [...]
Sarah forwarded me an instant classic diagram, which I tried to reproduce here, but couldn’t, for WordPress-related reasons I don’t understand. Look at the diagram if you want to understand any of the foregoing. I have experienced both in horrid detail and all its glory, respectively. Our last dwelling in Toronto was, we believe, the last [...]
Free Money Finance posted the 10 most hated money-saving tips according to the comments he’s received over the years, writing over 700 tips. These aren’t necessarily earth-shatteringly new strategies, but that’s not the point of this list. The point is, these are the common-sense tips to which people claim to be decidedly immune. Do check [...]
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