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Hey Dave, thanks for the kind welcome over in the introduction thread. Just catching up on your journal and getting lost in northwoods dreaming!

SWAN= sleep well at night. A personal metric that means your personal finances are in a state as to cause you no worries as it were.

I would offer some thoughts regarding you thinking about your decisions being unwise. This goes into some of what you were saying about success in my journal. While I have never been a farmer, I've worked around people who farmed and I feel no qualms in saying that after a decade of farm work you ...

Hello jesmine, fellow journal starter (seems we posted initial journals within 24 hours of each other). I haven't figured out how to selectively quote from others posts so I'll just briefly rephrase your question before answering.

Two examples of creeping inefficiency: eating a prepacked food item ...

Hello everyone, my name is thegoldenpath and I lurked here for a while before joining and am jumping in with a journal. First to give some of my background before moving on to the rest of the journal. I was raised in a family were being frugal was normal, replete with tales of generational woe, so ...

Thank you Smashter. I have been struggling with my first journal entry for a few days now, decided to just make an introduction post, and now the journal has progressed nicely!

Hello, I am thegoldenpath and I finally decided to join the forum after lurking for years. I'm planning on writing a journal to help get to grips with my path moving forward. I've been a quasi salaryman for a while and am at the point I need to get out. Structuring my future plans, organizing web of ...