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We’ll be back to the permaculture zones very soon, but I just wanted to say congratulations to my other half, who successfully landed two part-time jobs in the past couple of weeks. In ‘Let’s talk about Money‘ I told you we just about broke even. We’ll be in a much better place now. The important thing for us to remember:

• Not loosening up on the frugality side of things. It’s easy to not spend money when you don’t have money! But a lot harder to resist that urge when you do have that extra income. Both of us have the same goals of financial freedom in the long run, and neither of us want to achieve that by working stressful, high-powered careers. The only way to make it work will be to cut our living expenses to the bone.
• Sitting down after my other half goes through the next stage of his visa applications and discussing the next stage. For the past two and a half years the visa application and being secure in living together has been our top priority. I got an apartment, because it looked better for the visa application. We both delayed other life goals in order to make this happen. It cost us well over £2000 in fees and incidental expenses, and who knows how much we spent on plane tickets!

With less than two months to go before he is (hopefully) allowed to remain indefinitely with more-or-less the same rights and opportunities as a British Citizen we will now need to solidify what we want to do next in our joint lives. Of course, we know more-or-less, but we need to write down the exact figures and plans to make it happen.

Okay, enough about us! We’ll be back to permaculture in the next post.