When I travel, one of my favorite activities is to go shopping for food, and compare the cost of different items. I love a bargain, so usually I have my own pricelist in my head, and I know what is really cheap compared to home, and what is not. For example, tomatoes are around $0.25… Read more
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Spending on daily items, quality or price?
I like to think that the difference between being cheap and being frugal is you get to spend money on items that you will use regularly and get a longer lifespan out of, saving money over the long term. But there are products that last roughly the same, independently of their cost. Do you sometimes… Read more
$1000 giveaway! What are structured settlements?
I am very excited to co-host a HUGE giveaway today, check out at the end of the post how you can win entries by liking Reach Financial Independence’s FB page, subscribing to my RSS feed and many more! There is $1000 to win, yes, you read that right 🙂 If you are… Read more
The price of having a roommate
I have almost always lived with roommates and some of them were a pleasure to be around, while others were a real pain. With some we would make dinner together, or go out, and with other we wouldn’t talk for months. Obviously the first is nice while the later isn’t that great. When I moved… Read more
How much can you make renting your extra room?
According to Airbnb.com, a website that allows you to rent your extra room to travelers, the AVERAGE earning of people renting through them in NYC is $21,000 a year. Wow. On average of about 10,000 people. What would you do with an extra $21,000 every year, just like that? (check out my article about Airbnb… Read more
How I rented out my place on Airbnb
How I rented out my place on Airbnb I have lived in several flats for the past three years, one of them in Casablanca, Morocco, and the other one in Antigua Guatemala, a beautiful colonial town that is a UNESCO Heritage Site. Both those locations were desirable for tourists and when I looked up the possibility… Read more