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The Self-Kept Me
Solitude · Space · Your own pace
A life arranged entirely to your own specification: your money, your rooms, your hours, your animal. All four are things you build.
Pillar 01
Making the money that pays for all of it
This life is bought, not endured. The first thing to get right is what it costs and where that comes from.
In progress- What this actually costs a month, and the income that makes it comfortable rather than tight
- Buying a place on your own: what one income carries, and what a lender is really looking at
- Where the money goes when nobody else has a claim on it
- A second stream of income, and why it is worth more when there is only one of you
- What you are investing toward, when the plan is not a joint one
Pillar 02
The apartment is the project
Nobody to compromise with, which is the good news and also the reason it takes years.
In progress- Starting from an empty room: the order to buy things in, and what to leave until last
- What is worth real money, and what nobody has ever noticed in anyone's home
- Renting and still making it yours: what you can change, and how to put it back
- Light and storage: the two things that change a flat more than any piece of furniture
- Doing it slowly, and living in a half-finished place without resenting it
- Buying the thing you actually want instead of three versions of nearly it
Pillar 03
Something you are getting good at
Hours that belong to nobody else are the rarest thing here. What goes into them decides whether this life is rich or just quiet.
Next- Picking one thing and getting properly good at it, instead of trying eleven
- A hobby that needs space and money: how people fit one into a flat and a budget
- What a year of practice is actually worth, counted in hours
- Doing it alone, and the point where other people come into it anyway
- Collecting something on purpose, rather than accumulating
Pillar 04
The animal in the house
Not company as consolation. A second living thing with opinions, and a set of logistics that come with it.
Next- Cat, dog or neither: the hours, the cost and what it changes about every day
- What one costs a year, including the year something goes wrong
- Getting one: shelter, rescue or breeder, and the questions worth asking first
- Travelling when there is an animal at home, and what that arrangement costs
- A small flat and an animal that is happy in it
- When the animal starts doing something you cannot live withAnswered
- The point where you start wondering whether you can keep itAnswered
Six other lives are open from here.
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