Downside to our new place: living with other people’s stuff. Upside: enjoying this spectacular view while I drink my morning coffee. Day one of apartment searching with our relocation consultant was pretty bleak. We arrived at a bad time of year and the rental market was thin. Most available rentals were being let as short
Moving
The Nomadic Family: Life on the Road with Kids
Could you be a nomadic family and live on the road full time? Mariza and Jorje are planning to, or are currently, heading out on the road to be a nomadic family. Anyone else? I’m fascinated by the nomadic family and have been following a few that I thought I would introduce you too. All
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Technology
I’ll pay you $100 to take my iPhone.
This was the subject line of the Craigslist ad Chris put up three days before our departure for the UK. In our haste to leave town, we’d let the issue of getting rid of our young iPhones languish at the bottom of our must-do list. Neither of us wanted to deal with it. It was
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Life
beautiful words on a minimalist life
I read this post at The Trephine the other week and couldn’t stop thinking about it. The story Jen told about herself, getting rid of it all until you can fit your things in your car, isn’t earth shattering to me. Probably not to you either if you’re reading this. But the way she writes
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moving overseas
the things we left behind
Life is full of beautiful coincidence. In 2003 I was sitting in a small waiting lounge in Frankfurt airport waiting to board a flight to Milan, Italy. I was travelling with a few dozen rowers as part of the Canadian National Team. I was in that no-sleep stupor you get from an overnight Trans-Atlantic flight
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Home
Our Move to Europe with Kids: What We Packed
What do you pack when you move to Europe? Our move to Europe forced us to make some even tougher decisions about our stuff and what to pack and keep. When my mother and father moved to Canada in the 60’s (the reverse of our move to Europe), they brought five suitcases and 22 boxes
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inspiration
Consumed: fighting clutter on the small screen
Getting my bearings and finding a home this week as we start our new life in the UK. I’m probably looking at rentals today. Hoping for a flat but am told most of them don’t allow children. Fingers crossed for a townhouse instead. I won’t be able to moderate comments until next week at the
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Finances
Debt Update: spending money like water
I’m either frantically packing, canceling our electricity or in-flight today. I won’t be able to moderate comments – hopefully back online next week. At the end of February our non-mortgage debt was down to $21,392 from $81,607 a year previous. I’ve written a lot about how we killed over $60,000 in debt so quickly. It