2020 Financial Review Year End I have to start by saying I am very lucky to have a garden. My garden really helped to kept me sane this year. We are now past 21/12/2020 (Winter Solstice), which means every day from now on gets brighter. Sewing and planting are only a few months away! I …
A Closer Look at my New Investment Property in Wicklow, Ireland Well feck lockdown anyway. COVID has really interfered with my new investment property in many ways. It’s not just the obvious stuff of travel restrictions. I have spent only two nights in my new house. I am legally compliant and actually safer when I …
I bought my first investment property in Wicklow! Buying an investment property in Ireland Big news – I bought an investment property in Ireland. Well, sort of. I bought a second house. And I will either eventually convert it into a rental property or live in it and convert my current Dublin house into a …
Cladding a Garden Wall with Timber Cladding a garden wall with timber probably isn’t going to add a huge amount of value to my property, but it certainly makes the garden look much more appealing. Cladding the grey breeze blocks with timber gives a much more “finished” look that is more fitting for a garden. …
Financial Goals Review MID YEAR 2020 I make a habit of reviewing my financial goals every six months. This is important because it forces me to take a record of any progress I have made. It gives me a chance acknowledge any progress and my mistakes – putting my actions or lack of action into …
How I set up a company in Ireland (and probably got it wrong) The title says it all so if you have landed here looking for advice you are in the wrong place. I have no idea what I am doing but I am doing it anyway. Why am I doing this myself? Would it …
How to Build a Pallet Wood Planter I may be in lock-down, but I am still trying to be productive by making pallet wood planters. This has the added bonus of making my teeny-tiny shed less cluttered. Also, it has kept me somewhat sane over the last few weeks of the global pandemic. How to …
Is Grupeer Another Peer-to-Peer Scam? Yeah, this again. After an upset back in January 2020, when Envestio scammed investors out of their money and I lost a relatively small sum of €472. Now it seems very likely that Grupeer is going to join the list of fraudulent Peer-to-Peer platforms. I was dismayed by a text …
A Raised Bed to Add Value to my House Adding value to my house is one of my financial goals. This latest addition will hopefully make the front facade more visually appealing. It also perfectly aligns with my excitement about spring. Things are starting to grow again and there is more and more light every …
I built a wheelie bin storage unit using (mostly) pallet wood That’s a rather ambitious claim for this post, although technically it is true, I did build a wheelie bin storage unit using mostly pallet wood. It’s just not very good. Wheelie bins are a necessary eyesore in my front garden. Fortunately I was looking …
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