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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]