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other blog: the everyday minimalist
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location: canada/usa
works: business consultant
net worth: ~$155,000 as of Dec 2011
eats: sashimi, tartiflette, pho
drinks: earl grey cream tea
gadgets: macbook pro 17", ipod touch (pda)
beauty: fb's list of toiletries/makeup
wants: roland rd700-gx piano
reads: ayn rand, tom stanley, sophie kinsella
watches: bones, mentalist, castle, top chef
wears: wrap dresses & necklaces
loves: minimalism, $$ management, traveling
hates: wearing shorts & being late for anything
About
I'm a 20-something year old who got out of $60,000 of debt in 18 months, earning $65,000 (gross) a year.
This is more of a lifestyle blog with hint of money talk, like a moneythropologist.
You can read more about me here in The FB Story, check out my favourite posts or you can send me a note if you have questions (please be nice).
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Come and visit my other blog The Everyday Minimalist which is all about achievable everyday minimalism, simplifying my life, living like a modern nomad.
Books Archive
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Lesson learned from “Madame Bovary”
Posted on February 4, 2016 | No CommentsTweet “Madame Bovary” written by Gustave Flaubert is a wonderful example of what happens to us when we get consumeritis. To get money she began selling her old gloves, her old hats, the old odds and ends, and she bargained rapaciously, her peasant blood standing […] -
Questioning Readers: What was/is the cost of tuition in your country?
Posted on November 17, 2010 | 36 CommentsTweet All this talk about student loans and tuition made me realize 2 things: We are all paying different amounts of tuition and getting different subsidies (if any) Outside of the States and even in Canada, tuition seems to be more affordable (seems being the […] -
Money and Marriages
Posted on August 16, 2010 | 15 CommentsTweet I read the “The History of Marriage” on the weekend, and started thinking about what she said about how marriage started. Essentially, the history behind marriage is that it was not created for love — it was created for political reasons, religion, family fortune, […] -
Recommendations
Posted on May 12, 2010 | 7 CommentsTweet 20 Books/Series I like(d) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde — Entrancing classic. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — Am a huge fan of detectives Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand — Beautiful philosophical book on Objectivism (read: hard […] -
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Theme Park coming to Universal Orlando in Spring 2010
Posted on January 24, 2010 | 10 CommentsTweet I am SO going. I am a huge Harry Potter fan (both movies and books), and this looks amazing. If BF can drag me to Dallas to see Southfork from the TV show “Dallas”, then I can drag him to Florida for a little […]