when do I get my adult certificate?
You know the question “what would you do if you didn’t have to worry about money?” I want to find the answer to that while I’m young and able to act on it. I’m not aiming for the traditional idea of an idle retirement. I’m envisioning more of retirement from mandatory work into elective work. It’s being financially…
I had another post that spoke about why I will never own a car and mentioned that it is really expensive to have one. I didn’t dig into the finances on that one and based it more on my lifestyle needs. Here, I’m going to pull a hypothetical cost report together and also look at…
Took a month-long vacation in January (China, Vietnam, and Japan) and you can see the corresponding dip in my net worth haha. The tax forms from work are also late so there’s about $5000 extra in my Chinese bank account I didn’t factor into my calculations. Should be around $28k if we add in the…
Excluding material assets, my net worth is just over $25k. I’ll do a monthly net worth review of all my accounts as part of my financial goals for this year. I have a plan to retire before I hit 40* so this is as good a time as any to start tracking my progress. In…
Right out of teacher’s college I decided I wanted to teach in London. I was attracted by the culture, the proximity to the rest of Europe, and the chance to really challenge myself. Before I moved, I asked around online about the cost of living but no one really gave me concrete answers, but now…