For the first time in several years, we are not writing our annual financial report from a foreign destination or on our way to the airport, but in our lovely apartment, as travel continues to be banned.
2020 was not a bad year financially. We finished the year with a net worth of $550,120, which is an increase of $87,567 from last year. Our savings rate for the year was 69%.
We recently thought that it’d be a good idea to make a compilation page of all our media appearances. Many of our readers may not have seen all of them, so we decided to create a page that will have an updated list of all the articles/videos we appear in.
The link is here: https://incomingassets.wordpress.com/incoming-assets-in-the-media/
This post has nothing to do with personal finance, retirement, or anything money related. We’re looking at some of the stranger search terms that have brought people to Incoming Assets over the years. Continue reading
-Written by Cel
A few weeks ago, we spoke to a reporter who was doing an article about living in small, more affordable and environmentally friendly spaces. The article was just published, and features us and three other families:
On another note, something that we forgot to mention earlier. At the end of 2014, The Province published a list of their ten most popular stories/articles for the year. We were pleasantly surprised to see that we just made the list, sneaking in at #10!
http://blogs.theprovince.com/2014/12/30/the-provinces-top-10-most-read-stories-of-2014/
-Written by Cel
Tomorrow, we are leaving for a two-week trip to Europe. We are going to Budapest, Vienna, Zurich, and Paris. Most likely we will do one or two short day-trips to nearby countries. Posts will be on a hiatus until we return, though we should be able to reply to comments or emails.
Look forward to a trip report and our quarterly spending update after we get back!
-Written by Cel
The last few weeks have been fairly eventful for us – and the month of June is shaping up to be extremely busy.
Last week, we had an article about us in the Vancouver Courier, discussing our ebook and our lifestyle. My only criticism is that it made it sound as though I think an apartment in downtown Vancouver costs the same as one in Surrey, which is not the case. Great photo though!
-Written by Cel
A few weeks ago, we mentioned that we were writing an ebook about our tips for affordable living, containing both general and Vancouver-specific advice.
We are excited to announce that it is now published and available for sale on the Amazon Kindle Marketplace! Continue reading
-Written by Steph
One of the the biggest hurdles to overcome in getting your grocery costs down is learning to plan meals based on what you have, rather than going out and buying new ingredients. A lot of people start with a recipe they like the look of, then go out and buy the ingredients for that, and repeat this every time they want to cook. This is the wrong approach, and leads to a lot of food waste. A better way to operate is to have a number of very basic recipes that allow you to swap in whatever things you have on hand. This in turn allows you to shop based on sales a lot more, because you know that you don’t need specific ingredients for the meals you’ll be making.
Here are some of our favourite base recipes, and some of the variations we enjoy: Continue reading
–Written by Cel
Hello loyal readers! You may have noticed that blog posts have been a little slow lately. That’s because we’ve been focusing our writing-related time on a book! Continue reading
-Written by Cel
This has been a crazy week for us – in addition to a front page story on The Province (and cross-published to the Edmonton Journal), coverage on Huffington Post Canada – we also got a (brief) live interview on CTV’s national news broadcast during primetime coverage! Someone at work told me that our story is tapping into the cultural zeitgeist, and I have to agree that our story really seems to have resonated with people all across the country. Continue reading
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