Joy-Mari Cloete
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13 years ago @ Fabulously Broke in th... - The Art of Being …. ... · 0 replies · +1 points
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Estate agent: "So, where are you parked?"
Me: "Oh, right over here" and I point to the scooter
Estate agent: "Oh."
I'd much rather invest the hypothetical car payment in stocks and a retirement annuity...
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So I'm trying to spend more time without my phone and more time doing analogue reading, ie, reading books. I don't always take the phone with me when I drive somewhere. It helps that I do not carry a handbag. So it sometimes happen that I get sms messages hours later. And you know what? The world has not come crashing down. My Twittering has calmed down -- I used to send 20 tweets a day but I'm down to 20 tweets over a 1-month period. And I don't feel that I'm missing out on much substance either. There's still too much to read.
This is an excellent observation and I agree: "And the whole point of a discussion is not to get the answer instantly, but to figure it out through talking, what you think the answer is."
The bestest thing about my smartphone is the calendar function. I try to attend as many public lectures on various topics and I would definitely lose track of them without the phone's calender function.
13 years ago @ Fabulously Broke in th... - What have you eliminat... · 0 replies · +1 points
Ditto on shampoo, paper towels, and fabric softener.
14 years ago @ Fabulously Broke in th... - How to make saving mon... · 0 replies · +1 points
I'll supplement this with a retirement annuity in a bit and it's great that my government incentivises me to do this -- they refund 18% of the money I contribute towards the retirement annuity.