And why a good life doesn’t require winning the lottery anyway — Did you know the UK government gives two people one million pounds every single month for investing in their Premium Bond scheme? I keep my emergency fund in Premium Bonds and I win most months (there are 5 million other cash prizes given each month from £25). For reasons I…

Or what watching flamenco three times in three days has done to my soul — The first time you have sex has nothing over the first time you experience Flamenco, as I discovered back in 2015 when I popped my F-cherry. This week, my parents-in-law joined my husband and me in Jerez in southern Spain. I’m here for a month to reconnect, recharge and work…

Homeownership is not the only blueprint for this big adventure we call life — Want to make people deeply uncomfortable? There are many ways (people get uncomfortable for the weirdest reasons), but my party trick is to tell them I used to own a house, but now I don’t. Not because I had it taken away from me, not because I am moving somewhere…

Might be time to change it up — You know you’ve got a good comedian on your hands when a nearly 4-decade-old sketch rings as true today as it did then. And you know you have an insidious, generation-spanning problem when something 4 decades old rings as true today as it did then. Enter George Carlin, one of…

There’s so much more to “good deals” than the ticket price — Most minimalists and simple living advocates hate on Black Friday and with good reason —it doesn’t exactly shine a good light on our relationship with stuff. But you don’t need to be reminded about that again this Black Friday. Instead, I’m here to spill the beans on something else. The…

Repeat after me — you do not need a VR headset to live the Good Life — My technological setup has barely changed since 2003. One laptop, set of headphones, phone, Kindle, bluetooth travel speaker (both relatively new additions) and a Fitbit. That’s it. I’ve run a 6-figure business on this setup. I graduated from University, achieved my version of financial independence, traveled the world, became a…

It’s not a declutter-once-and-go situation — It’s one thing to declutter, it’s entirely another to maintain a lifestyle of owning and doing less for nearly a decade. So how do you keep on the path without deviating back into a consumer-driven existence? How do you resist the urge to spend (because believe me, it’s always there)? …

When it comes to paying for services, why are household chores always last on the list? — Do you think paying for a cleaner is only for fancy rich people? What about childcare? Window cleaning? Cooking? A study has revealed that most of us don’t — and won’t — pay for what is generally considered “women’s work” — basically home-centric chores and childcare. And yet, the same…

It’s not just because I’m a hypocrite — If Airbnb bans me, this article will be why. But I’ve got to write it. Airbnb’s rap sheet is as long as their Ts and Cs. They push up housing prices for locals. They facilitate the switch of long to short-term rentals (in my home town there are currently just…