Money
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7 Killer Tips To Start The Year On The Right Foot
ORGANIZE IT The first step to empower yourself and make this year yours is to organize it by designing a planner of everything you want to do. You should think ahead in order to meet all the tasks you intend to do. Once you have listed them on your calendar/diary/journal, you will be able to schedule them (weekly for instance) and how many hours and days you will be spending your time with it. Of course, before starting to organize this year, you need to pick which areas of your life you want to upgrade and the new hobbies you aspire to learn. Everything, including small things like “saving more…
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Why I Started This Blog
More than a year ago I started writing posts on this blog. However, I wasn’t very sure of what I wanted to get out of it and also, how much I was going to enjoy it in the long term. After checking some of the first articles I made, I realized I had never created a post focused on the WHY of this site and of course, the reasons why I continued with it. If you read every one of my articles, it’s easy to understand the mission and the essence of the blog. However, the fact that I change topics occasionally can be misleading. The idea to open my…
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Lifestyle Inflation, A New Concept To Live By
The world changes all the time, our lives change and so does our vocabulary. Over the last decade, a good amount of terms have been born and have become a part of our culture and everyday life. There is a new concept that I have heard of recently and has been an eye-opener to me. I wanted to share this with you in today’s post. LIFESTYLE INFLATION What does lifestyle inflation refer to? The best example of lifestyle inflation is when someone gets a pay rise and buys a new car that, therefore, increases his monthly car expenses, to the point where that individual never gets…
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A drop dead bargain? You better not believe it!
Being self-aware of your materialistic habits can be a great help when it comes to valuing the amount of time and money we put in order to get the best deals. Some big brands have seen their names go big thanks to their limited edition of multiple discounted brand new items. With the excuse of them being just leftovers from the previous season, some of the most famous high-end brands seem to have a huge amount of products for less than half the price. Is there anything we are missing? Today in Chatswithmycat, I reveal one the reasons why some luxurious products are so cheap despite being extremely…
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The Ultimate Tip to Saving Money
Time per day per item And I don’t mean it’s time for you to buy your own materials and create garments. That’s a wonderful idea if you are good at it, but you would need years to master the skill. That being said, If you love creating your own clothes and items, please ignore this and use your skills to create a new wardrobe. At this point, you may have noticed that I always enjoy collecting ways of stopping my over-consuming habits and buying impulses. My current flat is exactly 3 minutes away from 2 different shopping centres and now that sales are coming, I am trying to prepare myself…
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The 7 Simple Factors That Helped Me Become Minimalist
Last year, I started reading some articles, and also did my own research about a certain movement. I knew the word “minimalism” was related to art and design. However, the minimalist lifestyle got my attention when I started to really understand it. The concept of living with less. It didn’t seem too appealing to me at first. I thought the term was related to wearing the same every day and not using any cosmetics at all, but I kept doing my research and ended up discovering that minimalism could be applied to every person in a different way. It’s true that in general, more minimal lifestyles deny excess and clutter.…
