1. Parisian dreams
This is clearly a well done apartment in Paris. 200 square meters is 2150 square feet in the 8th arondissement near the Champs-Élysée and the Arc de Triomphe and likely costs around three to four million euros or more.
2. White Mountain Dreams
If I ever get back to the office and/or start writing a lot again, I will seriously consider buying this MontBlanc fountain pen, or at least trying it out to see if it’s truly all that magical.
3. Emily in Paris
I’ve watched the show Emily in Paris, and it was fluff, but I 100% did not think it deserved ANY awards or recommendations for awards for being “groundbreaking” in any way. It’s RIDICULOUS.
Bridgerton, was a truly groundbreaking show if you want to go down that route. I also appreciated Leconte’s breakdown of what she thinks about each French stereotype in the show, which more or less lines up with what my partner has said as well. He hasn’t watched the show but I did show him some scenes.
4. What’s the point of math?
Hands down, this book is Little Bun’s current favourite. Even for adults, it’s full of interesting history and tidbits.
5. DRIP
Groan.
Reinvesting dividends in your ETF in your NON-REGISTERED Margin accounts can have some terrible future implications in terms of taxation at the time of your final tax return.
Knowing this, I feel like I should…. track….. all of my previous dividends and so on for each ETF, but I also don’t want to. *side eye* I may however stop all DRIP on my accounts and do it manually because this accounting business is giving me a headache.
6. Standing up
My actual tablet stand sold out, but any tablet stand like this one I have to tell you, has been a huge game changer for reading my books, or even to Skype / Facetime with people as it puts it right up to your face-level. And I also have this smaller stand for my phone because I am on a million calls all the time, and I can charge my phone while I am talking.
7. Flexing
The best frugal flexes are truly interesting and fun gems to read about how people got things for $0.01 and so on. Truly cool.
8. Magic Bag
I have been using this magic bag for quite a while now during winter, and I warm it up before bed, put it on my freezing cold ice blocks shaped like feet, and I seem to drop off to sleep a lot easier than without. I hate sleeping with socks, by the way.
When my feet are sufficiently warmed up, I move it up to my chest, and it sits there, heavy, warm and I drift off into a deep sleep. There is some research that says this is true but really, I think it is more that I cannot sleep when I FEEL cold, and that includes my feet.
I also really like having something heavy and warm on my chest, which makes me feel safe and warm, which I think is a thing that hearkens back from being an infant for all of us. My mom always claimed we slept much better as children with something on our chest, mimicking the hug or hold of a parent.
