As most of our readers would know, we just move to our new place about a month ago and we are still trying to settle down in this new estate. We are exploring our new neighborhood and discovered that there are some very nice scenic park connectors just in front of our door steps (not literally…
In a previous post, I wrote about how many pairs of shoes we would possibly need. Having said that, I went shopping a couple of weeks back, and purchased 2 new pairs of shoes. What was the rationale behind the shopping (spree)? Actually, these are replacement shoes. I bought a new pair of nude heels…
I came across an article in Raising Savers the other day, which discusses the definition of wealth. These are the definitions which she managed to googled. Webster’s dictionary defines “wealthy” as people who have an abundance of material possessions. Wikipedia discusses wealth in the United States as a measurement of net worth, which is the sum of all…
The hot question that a lot of people might be asking themselves is “How much money do you need to retire?” or “What is the magic number to retirement?”. Basically, it just refers to “How much money you need to not have to work again for the rest of your life“. A lot of financial…
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/81/37/18/813718787fa3587ef116242b1f6ab7ed.jpg The Cromly feature that was published last week had generally generated pretty positive feedback, and we are glad to have had the opportunity to share our minimalist home with others, who might be interested to create one for themselves, and also, to spread the awareness of minimalism as a lifestyle choice. There were however,…
Committing to stupendous long term mortgage is becoming a norm in Singapore. From the outset, Singapore has one of the highest rates of home ownership in the world so it is not exactly surprising that a higher proportion of young and married couples are slapped with mortgage loans. For many of us, mortgage is probably…
Cromly has done a feature on our home and we are glad that the article turn up really well. About a month ago, the interior designer that we engaged for our home remodelling project contacted us and let us know that Cromly wanted to feature us in their “House tour” series. For those of you…
With Christmas not too far away (well in 1.5 months time), I toyed with the idea of getting a Christmas tree. In fact, I had already selected the model and tree I want (the great thing about the internet, you can find whatever you want) and even sent the picture to Dave. The tree was…
I have been shopping online for the longest since. Amazon, ebay, taobao, gmarket, Redmart, you name it. I have shopped on both international sites as well as local sites. International sites simply because I could only get those products on those sites, and they are not available locally. Local sites mainly for grocery shopping, and…
One of the basis of minimalism is to live minimally, with the essentials. Stocking up of stuff doesn’t seem to go in line with minimalism. Is that really the case? Personally I think it depends.