Hi there! I am delighted to host the Festival of Frugality today, with some of the best posts from the past few weeks. Please remember to link back to the festival if you have been included, and if you would like to participate next week, you can submit your post HERE. The Mayan ruins of Tikal, Guatemala…. Read more
Dear Google, I love you! Please love me back!
Dear Google, I love you! Thank you for all that you have done for me over the years. I love my Gmail, couldn’t live without my maps or my calendar, and am even ready to start using Google+ if you would only love me back! I got pretty for you Over the past three… Read more
Obama-ize your life! A valuable lesson of time management
Ramit sent an email last week about how President Obama manages his time. Basically, since he has so many BIG decisions to make, to keep his decision-making abilities sharp, he makes no decisions about his daily life. Of course, everything is being taken care of, but he also only wears gray or… Read more
How to save money on currency exchange
As I am getting ready to move to Guatemala, I am also putting my financial life in order and planing to exchange a lot of currency before I go. My mum is lending me money for a couple of months, until I get my flat’s money, so that I can put a deposit on… Read more
Real Estate: How I sold my rental property… again!
It has been a tense week last week, mainly because of the sale of my studio flat in the suburbs of Paris. I had found a buyer back in June, and the legal contract took months (his lawyer’s fault) to write, so we eventually signed a sale at the beginning of August. You can think… Read more
Twitter experiment: How I doubled my Twitter followers in a week (and why I won’t do it again)
I have discovered Twitter in July, when I launched this blog. I was a bit dazzled at first and didn’t understand many things, like how to get my tweets noticed when everything was going so fast and there were so many people out there. What I grabbed first, was that if I wanted people to… Read more
Are you a good tenant? Lower your rent!
Are you a tenant? Have you paid your rent on time, not trashed the place, or had the police knock at your door at 3am for noise disturbance? Then you fit right in the category of good tenants. Congratulations! As a landlady, I have had my share of good and bad tenants. Luckily, they all… Read more
Understand the impact of money decisions with Planwise
Disclaimer: Today’s post is a guest post about Planwise, a tool that allows you to realize the impact of money decisions. It is FREE to use, and I am not making money by recommending it. Whether you are buying a home, a car, paying off debt or getting a raise at work, you can see how these changes in… Read more
France or Guatemala, three real-estate options
As Mo’ Money Mo’ Houses was thinking about buying property in the US,I was considering where to invest the flat money that I should receive in a couple of months. My sale will be definitive on Friday, so until now I am not making offers on anything, but my plans have shifted dramatically. You see,… Read more
How much are you ready to give to your job?
Mr and Mrs PoPs over at Planting our Pennies were talking last week about the guilt some people are feeling when quitting their jobs. I really can’t relate, as to me a job is what it is, a job. My boss is using me to do a job and I allow him to use me… Read more
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