Letting a bill go without paying: Webhosting, system inflexibility and my own stupidity.

I started this blog as a wordpress.com monstrosity back in 2009. It officially became NickelbyNickel in 2010. For a while I just ran the free blog but eventually I thought, well, I want to join the big leagues so with a lot of struggling I managed to switch to a selfhosted blog. At the time,

Spammy outreach spammers

As part of InboxZero day (see my previous post), I often find myself clicking through emails of advertisers and other people I’ve communicated with. I’d like to share this gem with you all, enjoy!

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

I sold my house!

Purchased in 2008, and much blood, sweat & tears later it’s finally over. I am relieved to walk away free.

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