Month: October 2014
Low Cost Travel – Travel for “Work”
October 28, 2014
One way to tackle the travel bug, if you have it, is to try and get a lot of your traveling paid for by work. My ideal travel jobs would be as a surfer or as a tropical marine biologist, enabling me to go off to exquisite tropical islands, and at someone else’s expense, while I spend my time diving and surfing! Alas, I am certainly not the greatest surfer by any means, and so I am mainly stuck in the lab or teaching. What ways can you still go on trips and adventures while being frugal? Continue Reading
Cheap Travel Accommodation – Airbnb
October 20, 2014
Wanting to travel the world while still maintaining a frugal lifestyle? Well, there are a few great options to choose from, with staying with friends or family often being a good way but what happens if you want to go to far off lands, where this is not an option? There are a few ways to get accommodation that is cheaper than the average hotel. One way that Mrs Frugal Prof and I tried more recently, for trips to Hawaii, central London and also to the Lake District in the UK was Continue Reading
Financial Freedom Checklist
October 14, 2014
If you are just starting your journey to financial independence there is a short checklist of items that are needed as you go out on this adventure, to ensure that you reach the goal of freedom quickly and safely: Continue Reading
Cheap Stock Trades
October 7, 2014
You can use various brokerage firms for your investing, so I decide to have a look at the cost of trading with these to find the cheapest. They all can be fairly competitive for various reasons, but my thinking was which ones are the cheapest for buying stocks, and hence useful for a new/small investor just beginning his portfolio but wanting full control over his/her trading. The three I found were Continue Reading
Free Stock Trades – LOYAL3
October 1, 2014
In a previous post I wrote about using Betterment to get into investing in an automated way without having to pay for trades with the ETFs that they invest in. Well, what happens if you want to invest in certain stocks for various reasons, such as the ones you like have great dividends or that you see tremendous value or potential for growth? Well, I have found one place that allows you to buy and sell a select group of shares for free, which is pretty fantastic. This investing site is Continue Reading