You may have read about Bea Johnson and her family who managed to reduce their annual household rubbish to fit into a single glass jar, and a small one at that. Bea, who is the author of “Zero Waste Home”, is really inspiring and says that “Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot (and only in that order)” is the method she’s […]
Update on my journey to being debt-free
Back in August, we committed to tackling our debts by: Budgeting Making overpayments on our debts rather than just making the minimum payments, so that we could pay off everything in a maximum of 36 months As I said in my post “How on earth could we become debt-free?”, I worked out that we had €32,329.00 in consumer debt (credit […]
How on earth could we become debt-free?
My husband and I have read all the books about becoming financially free, played the Cashflow boardgame, invested in property, invested in the stockmarket, built up passive income, set up our own business and been entrepreneurial, and it’s been great, don’t get me wrong…. but we’re a long way from financial freedom. One thing we forgot when building up our […]
My journey to being debt-free and sustainable-ish begins
I’m starting this blog because I want accountability and also because I want to journal my journey to financial freedom and learning about zero waste and sustainability. Recently, I’ve been feeling a bit out of control mentally. The news is full of doom and gloom, what with war, corruption, natural disasters, global warming etc. etc. and I just wanted to […]