Financesmiths recently wrote an article with the same title. Basically, he talked about 2 different groups of friends he hanged out with, and how different the topics revolved. Which is common for different groups of friends. When we are with certain groups of people, topics tend to revolve around certain things and issues and also,…
Justin from Root of Good recently published an article on how his family of 5 managed to live for under US$40,000 a year. Dave and I are followers of his blog and needless to say, we were extremely impressed on how they managed to achieve this, despite the fact that they have 3 kids (yes…
I chuckled as I was typing the heading. Isn’t this an oxymoron? If we could minimise the use of diapers, we would, won’t we? Regardless of adults or babies. Since Ally was born, other than her formula milk powder, the other thing that we probably spent more of is on her diapers. (Never mind that she’s…
Over the last couple of weeks, we have witnessed numerous mega sale events by various retailers, both online and brick and mortar stores. Remember Black Friday, and then there was that Christmas sales, and post-Christmas sales? And now, Chinese New Year sales… These sales just seem endless. Well in hindsight, sales seem to be the…
I have been thinking about this for a while, and I thought, well, just do it! So what is it exactly! Here it goes…. I am going to put myself on a clothing shopping ban for 2017. So what was the impetus behind this? Well, many of you have read how Dave and I tried…
Dave wrote a post the other day that made me think deeply about. The article, titled “Knowing your real hourly wage” resonated with many and was relatively well received by our readers. I wrote about “a dollar for utilitsation” previously, which discusses how we assign a dollar per ustilisation for usage of our stuff, mainly…
It has been slightly more than two months since Dave and I started this blog and we are extremely thrilled to have hit 1000 visitors and almost 3000 pageviews! Considering that we didn’t exactly actively go about publicising our blog (although Cromly did do a feature which brought in more traffic to this blog), this…
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…
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,…