Irish Workation Update

This post is a (months later) update of our workation in Ireland in Mar/Apr including the planning, what it cost and how it went. Planning This 6 week workation was part of 2.5 month workation between Portugal and Ireland. See details of the Portugal portion here. Flights Per the Portugal update, we booked the below … Read more

Portugal Workation Update

This post is an update of our recent workation in Portugal including the planning, what it cost and how it went. Planning Why/When Firstly, I’ll cover off why and when we decided to travel. When we were moving from Ireland to Canada last summer, I wanted to have a trip planned back to Ireland within … Read more

Our Family’s Annual Spend 2023

Happy New Year dear readers. I hope you all had a wonderful time over the break. Today’s post outlines our family of 3’s annual spend for 2023. It is worth noting that half the year was spent in Ireland and the other half was spent in Canada. Total spend in 2023 came to: €63,547 This … Read more

Canadian Portfolio Update

As I mentioned in my last post, the Money Hacker family moved from Ireland to Canada in June 2023. At that time we had assets in both Canada and Ireland. This post will go through how we decided to centralise and invest our money in Canada and what we invested in. Asset shift Before we … Read more

Travel cheaply with HomeExchange

With the cost of living rising, it can feel like holidays may be out of reach, but with a little outside the box thinking, travel both within Ireland and abroad can soon become more affordable with sites like HomeExchange – think of the movie “The Holiday”. The idea is that you put your home up … Read more

We’re mortgage-free!…technically

Last month, when doing up our net worth tracker, I realised we are technically mortgage free! The correct term is mortgage neutral, meaning we now have more in liquid investments (non-retirement accounts) than we have left on our mortgage. I feel incredibly blessed and thankful to be in this position. Looking back at the 9 … Read more