when do I get my adult certificate?
You’ll notice it’s clearly not April, but hey, #lifehappens. Tax returns came and went, I had some surprise costs, and still managed to increase my net worth, woohoo! Given that I have about 5 months worth of pay still coming in I’m right on track to break over $50,000 net worth by the end of…
April has been a heck of a month filled with activity after activity. It brought with it a lot of change and challenges. It was as if life took the saying of “April Showers” a little too seriously and decided to squeeze in a year’s worth of waterworks into 2 weeks. BUT! I persevered and…
April was a heck of a month! I tracked every penny I spent this month to see the cost of living in China – and wow was it surprisingly low, even with some unplanned events. Life decided to really live up to the April Showers theme by a) dumping a Master’s degree application in it,…
April has been a heck of a month, being messy yet exciting in the way that only life can be. It’s made me think of this time last year, when I was in Rome with my sister, eating our body weight in pasta every day. It’s given me a renewed commitment to reaching FI to…
Stop me if you’ve heard this piece of financial advice before: “You should save 10% of your income.” It’s one of those general financial guidelines floating around out there most people (i.e. me) have heard of. I wouldn’t call it the worst piece of financial advice but it’s certainly not a good one. Spending 90%…
The days are longer, the sun is up before I am, and life is getting even better. I have a few self-improvement projects I have started half-way in March but want to properly track them in April. Here they are in no particular order: Track every penny I don’t use a budget right now because…
I used to do weekly wrapup posts but decided to keep the log for longer as the blog page was getting crowded. I’m also getting rid of Low Lights as part of my goal to reinforce positive thinking. When negative things pop up, I address them in the moment and move on. In the spirit…
I’m progressing nicely towards my goal of having over $50k in net worth by the end of this year. The numbers make it look like I’ll reach it in just a few months but there are taxes and exchange costs that will come out. Canada and China changed their tax rules recently and I’m very…