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Update on spending and frugality
Jul 02, 2021
April and May were good months. I did not spend a lot more than average even though I bought new hobby gear in May. I imagine the summer months to be more expensive as I would like to do other activities then, mainly some old hobbies I did before. Unfortunately those hobbies require stuff to be able to do them which requires me to buy it. Due to the hobbies being kind of new for me I had to buy new stuff and kind of went overboard.…
Imagine your ideal day
Mar 26, 2021
“Imagine your ideal day” is something I have read on multiple blogs and comes forward in a number of books. I found it hard to actually visualize it, I’m not even sure what I want to do let alone how it should be done. But during reading more books and putting my thought on markdown files for this blog I got more comfortable about thinking how I would like to do things.…
No buy February 2021
Mar 01, 2021
Rough start again this month. Got dragged into the meme stock GME and bought in at $240 and again at $95 to average it out. Seems to have lost around $600 right there. My personal spending is still zero for any goods. Did buy some craft beer but that is in my living costs. As the challenge is not about not buying anything, just physical and digital goods. I did start spending a lot of time on Reddit and Youtube, getting dragged into the news and negativity.…
No buy January 2021
Feb 01, 2021
Well let me start of by saying that I am happy I called it a “No Buy Year” instead of a “No Spend Year” as my cat claimed most of my budget this month. She had gotten sick in the first few days of the new year and had to spend some days at the vet and we had to give her antibiotics and pain suppressants for a few weeks. But due to not buying anything I had enough money to pays the bills immediately.…
First week of FLOSS
Jan 08, 2021
My start of the year To start clean and use FOSS as much as possible, I will reinstall my laptop with Arch on the 1st of January. You can see the programs what I will install here. I would like to switch to Parabola but my WiFi card and BIOS prevents me. I could order one from a Chinese web shop for under 20 Euros, flash my BIOS and cross my fingers but I am not read for that yet.…