From the monthly archives:

October 2009

A little under the weather

by Move to Portugal October 31, 2009 blog love

Thank you for visiting Move To Portugal. If you subscribe to the blog by RSS feed you can get all the updates sent to your inbox or reader for free!Hi all. Sorry for my absence, hoping to catch up on my blog reading soon, but I’ve been laid low with the lurgy! Very unlike me [...]

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Saving Towards a Goal

by Move to Portugal October 24, 2009 goals & dreams

How do you approach saving money? Do you work towards one goal or do you save for multiple things like us? This week I’ve discovered a wonderful blog, Married With Luggage where site owners Betsy and Warren have been saving towards one goal, a year long, round the world trip; it just shows you what you can [...]

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A Clear Out and a Move Around

by Move to Portugal October 21, 2009 simple living

I’m continuing to reduce our belongings and last weekend turned my attention to our already quite clutter free lounge and dining room – fireplace mantles or small tables seem have a habit of accumulating items; vases, candles and photo frames in our house. Anyway in an effort to get back to basics and only keep anything [...]

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Can’t Cook, Won’t Cook

by Move to Portugal October 18, 2009 frugal living

Where do I start with my cooking skills, they’re not good. Yes I can make things and I can do breakfast really well, but after that, I’m hopeless; can’t cook, won’t cook, springs to mind. I think the last cake I made was for my daughter in 1990, it was a My Little Pony one out [...]

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A little re planning

by Move to Portugal October 16, 2009 frugal living

Now that I’m over the initial euphoria of quitting my job, my mind has been spinning with all the changes it will bring to our life. We know that our goals for the next few years will need to be adjusted, but this is ok; we are looking forward to having time to breath as a couple, [...]

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Bad Habits!

by Move to Portugal October 14, 2009 frugal living

As I’ve moved towards a simpler, greener lifestyle there are certain things that I’ve tried to do, that make a small difference to how I live my life. Not massive things, just little stuff. Lately I’m finding myself slipping back into bad habits; this is my public declaration to improve things- I will no longer forget [...]

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Washington and New York in August

by Move to Portugal October 11, 2009 travel

For some reason I haven’t blogged about our trip to Washington and New York in August, which was one of the best holidays we’ve ever had. Everything about it was great, even the heat in the NY subway, which at times made me look less than attractive! We went to Washington for 3 days and [...]