This post outlines our family’s annual spend for 2022. This is for a family of 3 in Cork, Ireland. For longer time followers, I know it’s been a while 🙂 – I will be posting some big life updates soon so stay tuned. In the meantime, see below the details of our spending from last … Read more
If you’re lucky enough to work for an employer who grants you company shares at a discount as an employment benefit, you need to understand your tax liabilities and responsibilities, or you could face penalties and interest from Revenue. This post goes into how to pay tax on employee share purchase plans (ESPP) in Ireland. … Read more
See how ETFs compare to Investment Trusts in Ireland.
I know I am overdue a post. Things have been a tad crazy on the home front but should be calming down now in the next week or so and I hope to get back to posting more regularly. In the meantime, I was on the Superb Diamond Range podcast today talking all things financial … Read more
As you may have read, we took a mini-retirement where both my husband and myself would be off from Jan 1 – Mar 20 and without pay until the end of April. We spent 7 weeks in Portugal, to see if the cost of living there would be as cheap as we had read based … Read more
A while back I did a post on all I’d learned to date on investing in Canada. This post will summarise how to invest in Ireland. Investing your hard earned money can be scary! I read up on investing extensively for 2 years before I took the plunge. I suffered from something called analysis paralysis. … Read more
The main purpose of the mini-retirement was to recuperate from sleep deprivation more cheaply than at home. Unexpectedly, we actually realised a number of other things about our future early retirement goals. This post covers all the things we learned from our mini-retirement. Our early retirement plan We were leaning towards the option of reaching … Read more
If you’ve had a read of how we managed our mini retirement in Portugal and are thinking of taking one yourself then here are some tips on what we did to plan for ours. When How long to save up First, you will need to figure out how much your mini retirement will cost and … Read more
As you may know, I am very concerned with the state of the environment. As such I feel a little hypocritical with my current set of investments which basically has me supporting/funding oil and gas companies and other questionable asset classes as a shareholder. I’ve been doing a little reading on more sustainable ETF options … Read more
See how this blog exposed me to an enriching community as well as how the blog and my Canadian and Irish portfolio’s performed in 2019.