I had the good fortune of going to boarding school and the discipline I learned there helped to instill some lifelong habits vis a vis time management.
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Month: January 2017
Why Even Write About Inflation, Anyhow?
When I was living in Australia I witnessed a discussion between two professionals about how much money they thought they should accumulate before entering permanent retirement.
Grow enough vegetables to feed your family every day of the growing season
When planning this article, I started by asking myself such questions as “how many onions does a typical adult eat each season” and “how much margin do I need to allow for yield problems such as pest control, weeds, poor watering etc” and finally “what percentage of adults actually eat onions”. Needless to say it was a very calculator-heavy method of divining the required yield for a standard household garden, and at the end of the day totally unreliable because the vegetable needs would vary heavily depending on the individual dietary preferences of each member of the household.
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Make your groceries go 20% further using a home made stock recipe
Stock is one of the cornerstones of our civilisation, yet few households actually regularly make it part of their routine to create the stuff, preferring instead to harvest the supermarket shelves and pay up to $4 a litre for the privilege. Little attention has in fact been paid to the how much a regular stock habit can save you, as well as nourishing yourself and your family and making your grocery budget stretch further.
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