It has been proven by some anonymous social scientists that people would rather give money to a beggar with a few coins in his bowl than to one who has nothing at all. If I want people to help me, I need to work, too! As simple and as complicated as all that! I have…
Category: Money Earning Ideas
I am now here!
£30k is not exactly what I had expected to pay for a truck base, even though it IS a Unimog U1300L winch truck. That’s helluva lotta money just for a reliable set of wheels. Especially if you consider that I am South African, not European, and that amount is two years’ worth of salary to…
I should probably feel guilty… but I really, truly don’t!
I should start by saying that this is not how I was brought up. I was taught to work hard, save up and – if necessary – take a bank loan to achieve any goal that needed funding. Crowdfunding wasn’t a thing back then, nor were angel investors. Or maybe they were, but not in…
Announcement: I’ve added a Donations Page to this blog!
After much thought, I have decided to add a Donations Page to this blog. It’s not just that I want to make a bit of money from what I am writing (of course, that too!) but I have too many projects that would need funding just to get off the ground. Once they are up…
There’s just something about a stone house…
I found a stone house online this past week. It’s in a small village somewhere in central Portugal, and since the advertisement was posted recently enough, I have a suspicion that the photographs truly reflect reality. The house is built from granite stone (unlike the picture that I have picked for illustrating this post!) with…
But what if it works? Using a vlog for generating income from homesteading
Contrary to what I first thought, growing and selling food is not going to cut it in terms of bringing in money. Sure, it means that I won’t starve, but people don’t buy handcrafted farm-made goods anymore. That will be purely for my own enjoyment. And yes, I plan to enjoy it thoroughly! We live…