Thrift
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It’s late and we’re exhausted. It has not been a good week (John was attacked by a horrid dog, & it has been really awful at the hospital). But one of the bright spots in our months is the day we make our student loan repayment. Today was no different!
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Ah, bet you weren’t expecting this from me huh?! The last 3 years have been an exercise in resourcefulness & we found a treasure trove of free advice on various blogs! Now we just want to give something back. Right. So. Rosewater. In case you love rosewater for cooking & baking, or personal care but on…
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You know how it is. You go about the house getting on with chores when you hear a crash. What now, you ask yourself rushing towards the noise…
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Dining table, cups of tea gone cold, and lots of financial calculations. We were checking through our budget. “You will hate this, but we can’t buy them anything. Just no room.” I heard John say as I started at the calculator. We have found ourselves managing a very different mature student life than the one planned…
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“Djuknow what we need to focus more on?” John asked. “Hmm?” I looked up from my book, quite curious. “Cook from scratch as many weekday evenings as possible”, said John thumbing through a thoughtful Xmas gift. (I hate housework, and this idea sounded like more housework to me!) But we do cook from scratch, I protested. We…
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Our corporate lives were hectic. You must be expecting me to say how wonderful it is to slow down as a medical student, eh? Ha! No sir. I hate it. I would take high productivity, being on the road, deadlines, multiple projects on the go, & long working hours any day. On the plus side though this slow life (and…
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I used to have this Sunday afternoon ritual, if at home- a piece of dark chocolate truffle, freshly brewed espresso & catching up with my favourite blogs. While John and I were planning our mature student life we didn’t think I would have to let go of stuff like this. In any case, I would have reiterated,…
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Meet Joy Jar: A tradition we kickstarted to cope with the extremes of 2013. By mid-year we had already experienced a couple of fantastic highs and an awful lot of terrifying lows. So, we started to fill up this old sweetie jar with mementos of whatever made us happy this year – from Suravi’s first…
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(John) Rent or buy, looking for that perfect place is a headache of mammoth proportions. We wanted to rent, which had its own set of issues. Landlords with strange demands, houses with bullet holes in them, or a troll living in the cellar! All that time spent looking for properties online – I finally found Zoopla to be the most…
The Chatterjee-Woolmans 