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other blog: the everyday minimalist
talk to me: contact me here
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.
Guilt Archive
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Collecting: Hobby or Money Pit?
Posted on September 12, 2011 | 14 CommentsTweet I used to collect unicorns as a kid. No, not REAL unicorns, but anything with a unicorn on it. I didn’t want a normal real-live animal to collect likenesses of. No no. I wanted a UNICORN. Especially if it was purple. I had a […] -
Gifting and Society: The Guilt and the Cost
Posted on May 2, 2011 | 119 CommentsTweet I was watching an episode of Sex and the City the other day called “A Woman’s Right to Shoes“, when Carrie goes to her friend Kira’s child’s birthday party, has to take off her gorgeous silver Manolo Blahniks and place them by the door […] -
The Almost Purchase of the Facile Camp Shirt(s) a.k.a How I Curbed My Shopping Temptation!
Posted on November 29, 2010 | 49 CommentsTweet Just the other day I was reminded how far I’d come as a former shopaholic. I was (naturally) lusting after something I couldn’t have: a piece of clothing. Specifically, THIS piece of clothing from Anthropologie: The Facile Camp Shirt And it even comes in […] -
Don’t waste your time stressing about making more money
Posted on July 5, 2010 | 6 CommentsTweet “Time is money“…. right? But when you take it too far, you end up hearing conversations like: “I hate it when people are late even 5 minutes, because they’re wasting 5 minutes of my life, in which I could have been making X amount […] -
You’ve got the money, spend it!
Posted on March 31, 2010 | 24 CommentsTweet Do you hear that a lot from enablers around you? (Er… my tweets on Twitter are not to be included in this discussion) Roland @ Queer Cents wrote a nice piece on being Pressured to Spend, and here’s an excerpt: For my vacation this […]