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Written 3rd April 2025
Today's the day I've got around to putting all my ramblings onto a blogging website. Would you believe I actually bought the domain in 2014? Have never used it, just kept paying to keep it and thinking 'one day I'll use it'. I wasn't really sure what for, what I had to say worthy of sharing with anyone.
But now, I don't really actually mind if anyone reads it, or more importantly, actually likes what I have to say. My motivation is pure. To help people understand that you don't have to have everything to be happy. That if you invest a little time and thought into looking after what you have, be that belongings or your money, or that if you go without things, whether you can afford them or not, you can save enough to live a comfortable life and not feel like you're missing out. Or maybe like myself, be effectively retired by 53.
It's a glorious spring morning. I'm sitting down the garden with my cup of redbush tea, listening to the birds and watching them going a bit mad as they're against the clock to build nests for this years offspring. I'm admiring the wonderful summerhouse my partner and I built last year out of bits and bobs I saved from house clearance jobs. I'm not going to work today, I'm going to potter in the garden this morning and visit a friend this afternoon. I love my life, it's better than I could have ever have wished for. I don't have much, but I have no debts, money in the bank, a pension pot I can live on when the time comes and only 2 more years of National Insurance contributions to make to get the full state pension when I'm 67/68 (whatever is retirement age when that time comes). It's a great place to be.
I hope that if any of my ramblings make any kind of sense to you, that you can implement some changes that will see you have no money worries in the future and live a relaxing, peaceful, happy life for the rest of your days too.
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