Moving again…

The blog though guys, chill, not me. (Although…I think, Tom has been driving me bonkers this quarantine season so who knows…). I should have done this ages ago! I started out this blog in what, 2009? I think? With a silly name on the free version of WordPress and within about 6 months I ended

Jellyfish!

Guys, I wish I had more time to write and I just dont. I just paid for the renewed hosting of this site at about $160CAD, it kind of hurt to pay… for a hobby I have only sporadically entertained in the last few years. Sigh. I’m in Australia at the moment exploring the sunny

Edward Bernays called it Propaganda

Felt like sharing this today;

So I finished my emergency fund, now what?

For the first time in my life I have reached my emergency fund goal. I actually reached it on Thursday, it’s been almost exactly five years since I started this journey on my blog. 6 years orso since I first started reading personal finance blogs and getting serious about fixing my finances permanently. It has

Why I don’t really blog anything useful anymore.

You’ve probably noticed this website is mainly a personal finance diary these days. When I was a young and eager (ha!) blogger I did at times try to write useful articles about things that I felt were relevant. Like how to cut down utility bills, get out of debt and other general personal finance stuff.

Nickel by Nickel 5.0

I got tired of my blog today. I didn’t make any backups. There was no coding magic: In a spontaneous series of events I spent 46 minutes searching through themes on WordPress until I found a simple-enough and customizable enough version of my tastes and Nickel by Nickel 4.0 no longer exists. I didn’t take

Changes

I don’t know why that video is so big. Anyway. So it’s been a while since I’ve written anything public. I feel like in the past year almost every post has started with that sentence. Yeah, oh well. I’m here. How have you been? I unbroke my blog, which is kind of cool. I wrote

Vacation on a Budget

Life is hectic. Finding ways to decompress is more important than ever before, and a vacation is one of the best ways to relax and recharge. That takes money, so unless you plan on winning the lottery (you shouldn’t), you need a savings plan. Here are few easy ideas to fund your next dream-trip. Set

Why blogging and many blogs piss me off, why your blog does or doesn’t suck (and mine does too) and why you should’t email me

Ever get angry and frustrated? Here’s some frustration that’s been building up for a while. This post may be a little inflammatory. I go through periods of not adding to my site at all and I will be the first to admit that THIS website, Nickel by Nickel (and the associated Twitter account) is primarily

Project Move – I’m leaving on a jetplane (maybe)

  You may have noticed I created a page in the bar above called Project Move. I’ve talked about this in previous posts and I touched on it in my last post about my feelings after graduating.  Going forward all posts related to Project Move will be summarized on the same-titled page. I’ve known for