Posts Tagged with "frugal"
The 100 Items Challenge revisited, it’s all about your Mindset
A long time ago I wrote about the 100 items challenge and as you might know it’s one of the things on my “Freedom list 2010″. In a nutshell it’s about getting rid of all your personal possessions save 100 items. Not only does this offer great potential to minimise clutter, it also lets you [...]
Continue reading...Zen and the increase of mileage
Monday, September 14, 2009
As you might now I ride a rather old motorcycle that’s not very fuel efficient (Roughly 42 miles per gallon if I converted it correctly. 18 km/l). As I was riding on the highway last Saturday my fuel ran out, thankfully I have a reserve in the tank so I switched to that. An additional [...]
Continue reading...The defective consumer says: Eat your vegetables
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Everywhere you look there are commercials, influencing us and trying to convince us to buy the next best thing out there. Where this used to work on a massive scale it’s now getting more and more personal with even directly addressed ads showing up on your doormat and tons of spam in your mail. Not [...]
Continue reading...Winning the lottery by being frugal
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Yesterday, the lottery in The Netherlands was up to a record breaking amount of money (€27 million) to be won and it was guaranteed to be won by someone. You can imagine the frenzy. People literally bought hundreds of tickets and were already spending the money in their head. You know how that goes. “I [...]
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