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March 11, 2022 earn more

Build a Better Future by Boosting Overlapping Skills

Do you deliberately grow your skills? Will you?.. I was reviewing my old notes when I stumbled on something shocking. It was a link I’d saved 10 years ago, when

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December 22, 2021 spend less

How to Find Free Books

Free books are everywhere – the Internet is your friend! Hi! I’m GL, and I’m a bibliophile. I used to have a two-books-a-week habit: I used to scoop up free

November 29, 2021 spend less

Cheap travel and you: a how-to guide

Cheap travel is achievable. What are the first things that come to mind when you hear the word “travel”? Do you imagine something along the lines of Hawaii, first-class flights,

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November 26, 2021 spend less

Is cheap dating possible?

Cheap dating is not an oxymoron. One of the most common questions I get when I describe my $1,200 monthly budget is “how you can afford dating?” For a lot

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November 19, 2021 invest the rest

How do you actually start saving money?

How do you actually start saving money? I used to devour everything related to personal finance right after the 2008 crash – mostly because I was broke as a joke

November 15, 2021 spend less

Life without a car, or how I’ve learned to embrace simplicity

Giving up a car is weird. There’s no way around it: car ownership is the rite of passage into adulthood, it’s a symbol of independence, and hell, there’s no better

November 12, 2021 FIRE life

Quebec City: the ideal retirement destination?

Quebec City is amazing. Twelve years ago, when I was just a temp warehouse worker in Reno, I couldn’t even imagine that someday I’d leave the US and move to