This January I embarked on an Uber Frugal Month with Mrs. Frugalwoods. You basically cut out or down on all unnecessary spending. I’m very happy this coincided with my new low carb, high fat diet. It made me not even want to eat out which is unheard of. Continue reading “The Results of an Uber Frugal Month”
Category: Hobbies
I Accidentally Became a Financial Advisor
A few financial bloggers that I read regularly have mentioned how in retirement you will most likely accidentally earn money. As an early retiree you’ll have 30+ years of health and energy ahead of you instead of 5 or less. I never quite believed it, but I did just accidentally stumbled onto a side hustle while I am still working, which makes me think they might be onto something. Continue reading “I Accidentally Became a Financial Advisor”
Frugality and Weight Management Part II
Something strange has happened. I was reading through my previous posts to see to help reminisce about the year and what I’ve accomplished and I read my post about “Frugality and Weight Management” and how it seemed they went hand in hand. I started laughing while reading it because I felt so differently now. Continue reading “Frugality and Weight Management Part II”
Dietary Musings
I went on a bit of an information binge the other way. We were stuck inside during what was supposed to be a previously unseen snowstorm that caused our Governor to order the transit system to close. I was working from home, but becoming a little starved for new information. So I started watching a few of the documentaries that I had in my Netflix queue. First I watched Food Inc, then Forks Over Knives and then Vegucated. I had unknowingly picked an almost perfect sequence of documentaries. Continue reading “Dietary Musings”
Frugality and Weight Management
Interestingly I have found that frugality and weight management seem to go hand in hand. My original motivation to decreasing my time spent at restaurants and bars in NYC was because I wanted to stop paying people to serve me: to pour my drinks, cook my food and literally wait on me hand and foot. Instead I’ve sought to do it myself to save money until I am rich enough to pay people to do my bidding as MMM implies. So my partner and I eat and drink at home and we buy and make food and drinks ourselves. Continue reading “Frugality and Weight Management”
My Vice: Eating Out
I had three main aspects of my New York life that I let eat away at my hard earned cash:
1. NYC Rent (already addressed with our move)
2. Fancy Foreign Beaches
3. Eating and Drinking Out
Today I’ll tackle #3: Enjoying food and drink outside of my home. Unfortunately I’ve never been someone who enjoys cooking. I’ve been told that for others cooking helps them relax. Others claim that cooking and baking is fun in the same way chemistry lab can be fun – mixing different things together to see what you can create. I’ve never felt that way. Cooking to me has always felt like a waste of time simply because of two facts: That I eat really quickly and that I am not a good cook. Seeing all the time I spend cooking what turns out to be a mediocre product that I gobble up in a few minutes is quite unsatisfying. I’m left with a full, but not happy stomach and a kitchen full of dishes.