Mar 10, 2023·edited Mar 12, 2023Liked by Charlie Brown
Excellent points. This morning, I was thinking about the cost of connections of things.
The landline rang. I dutifully ignored it, knowing that only scammers and telemarketers call me there. That lead to the thought of, why do we have a landline?
We have a landline for the security system. Now that I work fully from home and my husband’s office is also at home, we are rarely away to set the alarm. So why do we have the alarm?
Having the monitored alarm gives us a better rate on home insurance. We must have insurance for the mortgage...
I'm so glad you shared this! I feel like I'm reading my own thoughts.
My husband and I are travelling now on a budget of €1400 a month and yes it's a challenge at times but we haven't missed out on anything. This week for example we were in Tuscany and had an amazing dinner out washed down by a bottle of Chianti. Bliss.
We also speak about what we want to do after the full time travel ends and how we now know that we don't need to earn x amount to lead a good, fulfilled life. We can earn less (or the find the right amount) and have more free time to do the fun stuff we want to do, such as travel! It's a balancing act and as U-Ming states, I'm sure it's a tremendously liberating experience!
I really enjoyed reading this. We did our budget a few years back and worked out we needed £34k per year to live the life we wanted to so we shoot for that and everything else is a holiday! It sounds small but we’ve done it for at least 7years, both working part time and tending to the gardens, allotment and the kids. ✨🌱❤️. We are loving our big dream and rejecting consumerism has been a HUGE part of that breakthrough. I sometimes drive our 8 year old car into the school car park with all the huge new range rovers surrounding me and think I’m making a political statement. There’s no shame here. ✨
American here---My first thought was that anyone who thinks 40k is an acceptable salary in the US does not know what things cost in this country. Kept reading, and guess what-- the author is not in the US, he is in a developing country where the exchange rate makes 40k into a lot more money than it is here. Is this a joke?
Being told I should be happy with an honestly awful salary that won't pay for a one bedroom apartment is useless and uncalled for.
Excellent points. This morning, I was thinking about the cost of connections of things.
The landline rang. I dutifully ignored it, knowing that only scammers and telemarketers call me there. That lead to the thought of, why do we have a landline?
We have a landline for the security system. Now that I work fully from home and my husband’s office is also at home, we are rarely away to set the alarm. So why do we have the alarm?
Having the monitored alarm gives us a better rate on home insurance. We must have insurance for the mortgage...
Oh, what a tangled financial web we live in.
I'm so glad you shared this! I feel like I'm reading my own thoughts.
My husband and I are travelling now on a budget of €1400 a month and yes it's a challenge at times but we haven't missed out on anything. This week for example we were in Tuscany and had an amazing dinner out washed down by a bottle of Chianti. Bliss.
We also speak about what we want to do after the full time travel ends and how we now know that we don't need to earn x amount to lead a good, fulfilled life. We can earn less (or the find the right amount) and have more free time to do the fun stuff we want to do, such as travel! It's a balancing act and as U-Ming states, I'm sure it's a tremendously liberating experience!
I really enjoyed reading this. We did our budget a few years back and worked out we needed £34k per year to live the life we wanted to so we shoot for that and everything else is a holiday! It sounds small but we’ve done it for at least 7years, both working part time and tending to the gardens, allotment and the kids. ✨🌱❤️. We are loving our big dream and rejecting consumerism has been a HUGE part of that breakthrough. I sometimes drive our 8 year old car into the school car park with all the huge new range rovers surrounding me and think I’m making a political statement. There’s no shame here. ✨
American here---My first thought was that anyone who thinks 40k is an acceptable salary in the US does not know what things cost in this country. Kept reading, and guess what-- the author is not in the US, he is in a developing country where the exchange rate makes 40k into a lot more money than it is here. Is this a joke?
Being told I should be happy with an honestly awful salary that won't pay for a one bedroom apartment is useless and uncalled for.