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Archive for February, 2008

living on one income - the single life

I find it amusing when you see calculators designed to justify one parent in a family staying at home. Not because that’s not a worthy goal if it suits you, but because they are about how you can live on one income. And I live on one income. But that’s because I’m single.
Now, I’m assuming [...]

not sustaining my dream lifestyle is ok

I was writing yesterday about the salary that I’d need to support my preferred lifestyle, and it came out to be an extremely large number. This number is larger than I have the means or inclination to earn.
I could use this information to motivate me to earn more money, but more than tripling my gross [...]

how much do i need to earn? reverse engineering my ideal salary

The other day, Catherine Shaffer @ Wisebread asked if six figures was really that much. This inspired me to work out what income it would take to sustain my semi-ideal young professional lifestyle.
For the purposes of this, we’ll imagine that I am living in my existing house, and that the only things that I want [...]

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