It’s time for my 2022 Personal Review – what a year it has been! First and foremost, Happy New Year to you all! Hopefully 2023 brings you health, happiness and prosperity. My 2021 review promised that the blog would become a priority for us again. Unfortunately, this hasn’t happened yet, due to the chaos of …
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2021 Personal Review – Mr Way
First and foremost, Happy New Year to you all! Hopefully 2022 brings you health, happiness and prosperity. It’s time for my 2021 Personal Review – so much has happened this year! Unfortunately, the blog has taken a back seat because we’ve had so much going on in our lives. Fingers crossed we’ll have more free …
Should We Rent Out Our Home?
With our impending move half way across the world, we’re trying to decide whether we should rent out our home! The advice of most friends and family is to keep the house and rent it out. Mr Way’s instinct is rather different with the temptation being to sell up and start afresh. We write this …
Decision Made
In our post Decision Time, we outlined the huge decision we've been facing in the last few weeks. Well, after many sleepless nights and much deliberation, we can now announce it's decision made...... We're moving to the Caribbean! In somewhere around 6 months time, we will be leaving our home for the last 7 years …
Decision Time
It has been a strange few weeks. We've slowly been settling into married life, while also settling Baby Way into the reality that he can now see other humans! Meanwhile, I've been becoming increasingly tired of my job. My boss is treating me really badly, and I miss being able to work from home. 3 …
2020 Personal Review – Mr Way
Well, what a year! It's finally time for my 2020 Personal Review, and boy has it been a crazy one. Nobody saw the global pandemic coming, but there have been so many other things going on in my life too! It has been pretty manic at times and hard to process everything that has happened. …
A Way to Less – One Year Blogging
Somehow, a whole year has passed since we started blogging on A Way to Less! We've learnt a lot in the last 12 months and our circumstances have changed quite significantly! Despite everything that has changed, we continue to make progress towards our FIRE numbers and keep making small improvements to our overall lifestyle. FIRE Progress Due …
Happy New Year!
2019 2019 has been a year to remember for us, with highlights including: Starting a blog in March!!! Getting engaged in July An incredible month-long trip to East AfricaFinding out we are expecting our first child, Baby Way , in July 2020 Booking a wedding venue for 2021 Clearly, 2019 has been more expensive than we would have liked! Despite …
All Change!
A Life Update and some BIG NEWS! Soo...we have exciting news! We got engaged!!!! After just less than 6 years of being together, Mr Way asked me to marry him and I said yes! So I’ll be asking for lots of frugal wedding advice from like minded FI enthusiasts!! Like everything else in our lives we will be looking at our wedding …
Sanity, Saving & Singing!
“A smile is a facelift in everyone’s price range” Tom Wilson Music teaching can be such a rewarding job. The privilege of introducing music to young children and witnessing the joy it brings them never fails to make me smile. Nothing can compare to the power of an assembly hall full of children singing a song they love, …