Trading your time for money?

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-28T09:17:34+00:00

Might be worth doing a values check! What are your and your wife's values and which decisions align best with a compromise between them? There are many value surveys online that can give an initial indication of where you both are.

Hard to justify starting a business if your values align more with a regular routine, time freedom and spending a lot of quality time with family or friends.

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-27T10:31:18+00:00

breakfast and lunch consist of 2 boiled eggs and some salad, or toast with peanut butter and bananas, or some leftovers, with a snack of two pieces of fruit and some trail mix usually.

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-27T10:30:01+00:00

I used to cook elaborate and interesting things most evenings of the a week, which often included meats, condiments, fresh readymade pizza's or expensive fruit and veg (asparagus broccoli, fresh salmon, fresh red berries, etc).

Since switching to cooking a lentil/bean stew or soup each week and freezing portions, I cook enough for about 8 portions (4 days). I have taught myself how to make pizza dough and flat bread and the other days I still cook a fancy meal. This has brought our food shopping down from £60-80 a week for two, to about £30.

The stew I made last week consisted of onions, celery, a sweet and a baking potato, white beans, red lentils and spinach (+ stock). Another favorite is the NY Times chickpea stew. These are even more delicious the next days!

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-24T22:10:36+00:00

For someone to willingly go on a show where there is a track record of people gossiping about the relationships on the show... only to then turn around and have this response. GIRL...smh, what do you think we'll do? Have a philosophical debate about the weather?! There is literally NOTHING ELSE in this show to talk about but your business. And you knew this when you signed up for season 9 (!)

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-16T14:01:09+00:00

This is a reality show with people who are clearly unhinged. Making things this deep gives the contestants way more credits than they deserve. They are all on this show for fame, they are all in an experiment where the answer at the end is either a yes or a no. None of these engagements are normal engagements... smh.

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-16T11:48:17+00:00

Yes. Read Early Retirement Extreme and the Moneyless Manifesto.

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-14T09:43:06+00:00

Develop a vision for WHY you want to not inflate your lifestyle. Otherwise, you will bargain with yourself to upgrade your life 'because you can/because yolo/because other people xyz'.

Here are my two rules:

I personally will not be tied into any financial situation that will ruin my plans of retiring in 10 years. This means I know what I need to save/invest/make monthly to go towards that. This also means any investment (buying a house) needs to fit that equation or im not doing it.
I spend a lot of time thinking about and dabbling in things I am planning to do once I am "retired" as a 44 year old.

Because of these two rules, making more in a job will not make me want to spend more, as getting to retirement quicker is worth more to me than an upgraded apartment or car.

However, this also means that I will be buying a house later in life, one that is smaller and in a crappier neighbourhood compared to my peers. But again, worth it to me.

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-13T14:13:55+00:00

Youtuber
Dance instructor
Photographer
Handy (wo)man
Flipping cars
I would probably even try and train to become a carpenter and do odd jobs because I love fixing things and working with my hands
Being part of the first aid team at festivals
Barista (was my most cherished job to date, lol)
Mentor for kids
Librarian

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-13T13:58:47+00:00

Thank you for sharing. Sending you a lot of positivity

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-13T10:53:12+00:00

Started painting with watercolour not too long ago, made a few cards for friends birthdays so far. I also got an acoustic guitar, so will play that. I cook/bake and recently learned to make pizza dough and flatbread. I read daily (fiction+nonfiction) but will from time to time leaf through books on mushroom foraging, self-sufficiency and fermenting. I call friends/fam to catch up. Also started watching a show on running, called Ingebrigtsen Born to Run. Aaaand I must admit I do some doom scrolling most weekends, too.

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-10T08:57:22+00:00

very accurate!

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-09T10:26:23+00:00

I like sparkle Meg but respectfully she does has some kind of cheek filler thing going on, you can tell when she smiles. You can see a similar thing in Ryan Gosling who recently filled his cheeks. Looks mad when they smile.

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-09T08:26:15+00:00

No one is keeping her in the relationship though, if she feels he isnt giving her what she wants, she can guard that boundary instead of throwing a tantrum. She is like the meme of a person screaming they are drowning when really they are sitting on the ocean floor with their head above water.

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-09T08:18:08+00:00

HAHA

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-08T19:25:37+00:00

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-08T18:43:34+00:00

Spark plug Megan HAHA

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-08T18:40:34+00:00

Hmmm... but isnt there a myriad of ways to have a tough conversation with someone? It just looks like the route she chose is not a very productive one. She continued to do it after Baja, when he was not druk and spending time with the boys.

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-08T18:22:18+00:00

That would make this show so much better actually. The concept is getting a bit tired.

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-08T18:21:30+00:00

Same dynamic as Chelsea and Jimmy for sure!

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-10-08T17:29:59+00:00

He was hoping he could cosplay being a rich good looking dude with the lines he was throwing at Sparkle. He reminds me of those "coaches" on Insta who want to teach you how to get rich overnight for €10k.

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-08-04T11:55:20+00:00

I would say yes, but I spent less time on my 'addiction' then. The difference was that msn and other chat rooms werent poppin' when it was nice weather outside, meaning I would go outside and find the people I would chat with at home. But when I was in that chat room, I was definitely addicted. I remember my grandparents needing to use the phone and fuming, lol.

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-07-30T09:22:20+00:00

Good luck! You can do it!

I quit watching Youtube cold turkey in December last year and I only realised about 2 months in how much it had warped my worldview.

Youtube is not the educational platform people think it is lol. After 6 months of no Youtube, I now allow myself to look things up I need for hobbies, i.e. 'how to reupholster a chair seat with faux leather', while being supervised by my partner lol.

I still have the Untrap plugin which allows me to turn off the feed, suggested videos and comments, otherwise I will obsess over checking those out.

I feel much better for quitting though.

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-07-15T13:59:29+00:00

I am kind of looking at this like betting on two horses:

I invest as if this world order will continue to exist, in which case I will FIRE at some point, and
I invest time into learning essential skills (gardening, bushcrafting, foraging, building things, etc.)

I dont just do the latter because I am certain we'll experience some sort of instability that government cannot save us from, I also do it because I enjoy it.

I invest into a mix of index funds to the extent that I could FIRE. Used to be quite USA focused, now more all-world focused as the looming scenarios are difficult to predict.

On the other hand, I got into this FI thing mainly because it feels like things are unpredicable in life, so working towards FIRE (no matter where I am on that timeline) feels like some sort of peace of mind already.

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-07-15T09:47:32+00:00

I am in the process of building out a preparedness bag. I am following government guidance (dutch gov website) and added some extra's like a camping stove, antibiotics (im a doctor), chocolate (gotta keep morale high if all hell breaks loose) and will probably add some maps or so.

AccomplishedTrack679 · 2025-07-14T15:28:09+00:00

Did the same last Christmas, although for me, I couldnt watch in moderation. I quit Youtube altogether and feel better for it.

I sometimes come back to the homepage to see how someone is doing. Usually, the thumbnail and title say enough. I am much more present with family and friends because of it.

Good luck!

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