I’m Taking a Break
Just a quick not to let you know I’m taking a break. Sadly, not a vacation, but a surgery.
The Problems of #GirlMaths
I recently heard about #girlmaths, and it doesn’t make me happy. It involves specious calculations to reduce the cost of clothes/shoes/accessories to free…
Life Worth Living Project, Friendship, Wealth
Change is Good or Better
A change of wind. The Australasian Sketcher February 11, 1882 by Alfred May & Alfred Martin Ebsworth, via State Library Victoria As it turns out June 2023 sucked. It sucked ...
More on Labour Exchange
Aside from redeveloping the new look site, I’ve been thinking about labour exchange again. In Holistic Personal Finance, I posited a direct relationship between time, money and health. Creating an ...
Life Worth Living Project, Beauty, Friendship, Wealth, Wisdom
More Morning Routine
I’m not sure whether it’s because this is already an unusual year, but I’ve been thinking about more about my morning routine. Perhaps because there’s been so little else to ...
Friendship, Haiku, Pleasure, Wealth, Wisdom
The Smell of Wood Smoke
The other day, a rare for this year sunny day, we took Clever girl for one of our longer weekend walks around the neighbourhood. There was a beautiful blue sky, ...
Friendship, Haiku, Pleasure, Wealth, Wisdom
Christmas is coming
I saw my first Christmas decorations recently, and I suddenly realised Christmas is coming. It came as quite a surprise – even though I’ve just done my quarterly plan, (or ...
There’s been a Data Breach!
“There’s been a Data Breach!” (please imagine the grizzled voice of Taggart’s Detective Chief Inspector Burke). Here in Australia, we’ve recently endured a data breach or two (that we know ...
Inflation and You
I’ve been watching the inflation rate with interest. And the local commercial tv stations running around like headless chickens talking about how disastrous inflation is and how we’re all ruined, ...
Time, Time, Time!
Did you ever wonder how it is that time seemed to last forever when you were young but now you’re old it’s gone before you know it? Well, your not ...
Money, Time, Health
As far as I am concerned, there are three aspects to wealth: money, time and health. As I say in Holistic Personal Finance, the value of money comes from the ...
Revisiting Just-in-Time Delivery
The concept of just-in-time delivery is essentially having ZERO stock on hand, ordering it when when you need it. In 2015, when I was long-term unemployed, I wrote a post ...
Small Business Saturday
I recently heard about Small Business Saturday. It’s an event in November taking place between the Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales to encourage people to shop locally. This year ...
Time and Tide Wait for No One
Time and tide bring to mind the story of King Canute commanding the tide to be still. But tide is also an Old English word, meaning a period of time, ...
Thankful and Grateful
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on ...
Developments in my Lifetime
I had a gut ache the other day. And what with there not really being a pill you can take for gut aches… Assuming I could be bothered getting out ...
Dating Spending Plan
I heard on the news the other morning that the divorce rate in Australia (and presumably other contries) has skyrocketed. The going theory is that we’ve spent so much time ...
The Cost of Money
Wealth is worth more than the cost of money. Wealth is an abundance of something, whether that’s time, money or physical wellbeing. And the relationship between them is illustrated below. ...
Product Price v Quality
First island windows in Melbourne ...
Is the Old or New Normal Better For You?
It’s been a while since we went into lockdown, and restrictions are finally easing. We can eat out, go shopping and send our kids to school. Politicians have “won” the ...
How to Set up a Giving Programme
About a hundred years ago (February 2020), I suggested we think about setting up a giving programme. What with the Covid-19 pandemic, a great deal has changed since then, and ...
Friendship, Haiku, Pleasure, Wealth
In Memoriam Maidenbelle Snow Lily (2004 – 2020)
Wealthy is as Wealthy Does
There’s a proverb of sorts, Beauty is as Beauty does And according to Walt Disney (video has sound) at any rate, it means being kind and doing something nice for ...
Wisdom, Beauty, Life Worth Living Project, Wealth
The Pleasure and Pain of Healthy Habits
My last Transplant Clinic appointment was less pleasant than I’d hoped, and now I’m back to contemplating the nature of choice and healthy habits. And complacency. It seems that after ...
The What, Why, and How of Pleasure
When times get tough, one of the first expenses cut is pleasure. In the face of all other considerations, it becomes frivolous and wasteful. And yet, without pleasure, life can ...