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RoamingFrancis wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 16, 2021 4:01 am

@chenda I would love to chat dharma. Though I think that conversation may be better suited for PM than for a thread.

I for one would be happy to read people's musings-practice of the dharma. Cheers

7w5, just want to thank you for your recent analyses here. Both highly interesting, fun, and helpful in thinking about my own life. Likely many other forum readers found the same. No need to reply to this but THANKS.

Feel like sharing this dhamma talk on the mindfulness of sexual desire. Very relatable, applicable, and helpful, in my opinion. The speak (a monk) was a student of Thích Nhất Hạnh. https://youtu.be/c8x0gXoJtAk

Thanks for your replies basuragomi and 7Wannabe5. Your comment about scenario of working in different parts of Canada was an injection of different vision than what I've been having (human-scale permaculture making most of neighbourhood + city-level assets along with family's farms & woodland 20...

April 2021 Results April savings rate = 91.7% NW = 64X TTM Spending NW adding realistic amount for scenario of paying for housing = 27X TTM Spending WR = 1.6% WR adding realistic amount for scenario of paying for housing = 3.7% https://i.postimg.cc/2jcmZkbj/April-2021-Spending.png For 20 months I’ve...

Thanks for sharing the foods & drinks you're preparing Alphaville. Truly delicious & healthy inspiration. Last night's not-heavy dinner, dessert, and "digestif" were particularly so for me. Thanks again.

Yes congratulations on the house purchase 7W5!! Understandably we're all really excited for you! No pressure though - you know yourself best on how to balance the enthusiasm to have multiple improvements on the go while being sustainable in your personal energy and the satisfaction of getting things...

Thanks for posting that excerpt fiby41. I appreciated the exposure and content.

Wannabe's a taken name of a popular character here, don't you know? :geek: Ah well, you'll follow the path and have financial success. And if you're lucky, the OG Wannabe will bless you with points for consideration in a humourous wrapper re. the long-term health & satisfaction of your domestic ...

7Wannabe5 wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 03, 2020 11:39 am

Congratulations! Remember, just clean it for a year! (Obvious exceptions being stuff like leaking pipes.) The irrepressible urge to rip out fake wood paneling and Popcorn drop ceilings has been my downfall.

Oh my gosh, yes.

How did it go? What did you talk about? I'm "up the road" in Barrie and feel a connection to Toronto - certainly not a LCOL area (real estate wise).

Thinking a whole lot about climate change these days and this 30min podcast episode from Germany's DW highlights current state of renewed and rapid deforestation in Brazilian rainforest to grow soy, as well as the opportunity to plant many more trees in my country, Canada, Russia, and others: https:...

I too, classical_Liberal, have considered practicing this kind of patient navigation service. I'm not a regulated health professional but have worked in hospitals much of my life and have helped my awesome RN mom and others navigate the system, being an advocate for them to speak up and effectively ...

Thank-you for your post Campitor and the collection of impactful quotes it contained. Has me thinking I need to wrap up this Saturday afternoon that I've come into work and go out and enjoy my weekend!

I can. I'm along for this ride. Keep it coming 7, and anyone else with the creativity to chime in!

I'm eating this up 7! You are a total riot. Jason, you had me going between strong, strong cringing to hesitant laughter. Something I wouldn't want to have come up with, but I guess we'll see how she takes the blow?

In Barrie (Canada) now doing higher-paid healthcare IT work. Trying to find a frugal community in this pretty consumeristic city, as well as a fellow ~late-twenties gay miser like myself to date (an even smaller percent of the population). Yes, this is my Personals ad on the ERE forum. DM me for det...

Hi distracted_at_work, welcome to Questrade! I've been using it for a couple years now and have liked it. I'd recommend you hold your Canadian equities in your taxable account (Questrade's name is Margin). This document (including its appendix), has information which has guided me in where to hold s...

HA! Great idea C40! Back to my lurking...

From what I understand, a low trading volume for a given ETF is not a major concern as long as the stocks it holds are reasonably liquid. See this article for example: http://www.etf.com/etf-education-center ... idity.html