Financially Independent, Retired Early(ish) at 57.
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What’s top of my mind: Travel. So… on Saturday morning I was scrolling on the laptop and I suddenly decided to stop shilly-shallying about booking a trip to Borneo, so I did it. It’s just under 5K and I get to see orangutans and pygmy elephants! I get to see other things too, but they’re […]
I told the dogs that David30 was coming for dinner. Poppy and Scout immediately went to wait for him to arrive. Obviously, Jeffrey didn’t have the foggiest idea of what I was saying. What’s top of my mind: I’ve hit triple digits with this series! I’m not going to lie… I stole the idea for […]
I’ve written about the nitty gritties of the ‘No Spend Days’ chart HERE, way back in 2018, then HERE in the middle of 2020. That last one was funny because I was congratulating myself on an 18-week streak of silver weeks. I never dreamed I’d get to 61! For the TL;DR version: I have a […]
It turns out that when you’re living through 2 lockdowns and you’re not that fond of online shopping, you can really make a “No Spend Days” chart go crazy. For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, I keep track of my spending by using this chart. Every day that I don’t put my […]
I’ve had an emergency fund for the last 2 decades. When I left my husband 22 years ago with $60 cash in my hand and with 4 boys under 5 to support, the first thing I set myself to achieving was building a $1,000 ‘buffer zone’ (as I called it then) to provide some security […]
Shaolin Temple is famous for king fu and medicine. Kids start at 6, with 90% being Chinese. Also, around 90% are boys. 7K AUD a year is the fee to go to the school here. It’s not cheap. They are there from 7:20 am to 6pm. Domenic has a 12 year old son there, so […]
I joined a few TripaDeal groups on Facebook when I started booking all of these holidays. This one is the Terracotta Warriors tour. The China FB groupswere explicit about a couple of things. The flights from Australia get in REALLY late. The days are go!go!go! and the lunches and dinners are late. Blogless Sandy and […]
On Sunday, we gathered at Kate’s place for Dad’s 87th birthday. She made individual chocolate mousse pots insteadof a cake, because Dad was more likely to attempt to eat mousse. It was a lovely day. Both Kate and I are flying out of the country today, me to Africa and she to India, so we’ve […]
1.3 million people in Kyoto. It’s the second biggest city after Tokyo. And this morning, those people were COLD. It was strange day, weather wise… a very Melbourne day with all sorts of things going on. ”No matter what the weather is outside, inside is always sunny!” said Ben on the bus. As we passed […]
We only spent the morning here, before taking the afternoon to drive to Kyoto, but I could have easily spent longer here. It was fantastic. This is one of the iconic sights in the famous Kenrokuen Garden – the Kotoji Lantern. It has two legs instead of the usual one. This garden is one of […]
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