• Dublin Castle, Ireland

    Tips for Making Your Money Last Longer in Europe

    A holiday to Europe is most people’s idea of heaven – but in a continent as economically powerful as the Eurozone, prices are sure to test your bank. Here are five useful tips for making your money last longer in Europe. Research There are plenty of useful tools out there which will help to give you a better understanding of average prices in any region of Europe you’re intending to travel to. These will generally provide you with the average cost of living in most places – which will help you to discover what sort of prices you might expect to be paying on your travels. Doing background research means…

  • Best Books to Help Improve Your Life

    Best Books To Help Improve Your Life

    The Best Books To Help Improve Your Life Since Peter and I work full time, we don’t always get to travel everyday. In the down time that we have either by commuting, staying at home, waiting in a queue among others, we find other ways to improve ourselves and occupy our time by reading books. I used to start out by doing book reviews on my other blog – which involved me writing a review about each and every book I read. However, not all the books I’ve read before are actually helpful to my life – some of them were just read to create a different world for myself…

  • Earning Passive Income for Basic Needs

    Money Challenge Earning Passive Income for Basic Needs

    As part of our financial independence goal, I kind of challenged myself to think more and more about how to earn more streams of passive and portfolio income so in the case that our earned income dries up, we’d have something to fall back on. The more I thought about it, the more it made sense, but the only problem was executing it. So, in order to keep me accountable for our goal of becoming truly Financially Independent, and in the event that we won’t have earned income, here’s a challenge: a money challenge earning passive income for basic needs. Earning Passive Income for Basic Needs If you’re frugal and plan to retire early…

  • The Happiness Fund

    The Happiness Fund

    They say that money does not buy happiness - but what if it does, if only for a little while? What if you're at your wit's end and you just want something to take you out of your small spiral of sadness? A little bit of comfort, a little bit of sanity? Does it justify spending money?