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How to live for free: FOREVER!

27/4/2021

 
Updated 27th April 2021
Over your working lifetime how much money have you earnt? From the fruits of your hard labour and working all the jobs how much have you made over the years? 

Then comes a slightly more painful question:   how much of that money have you kept?  What are you left with?

​This might not be the most comfortable post to read but it might be what you need to get you to start paying attention to your finances!

Katie and I were doing an exercise this week to see how much money we’ve actually made in our lifetime and how much money we have left. Interestingly we discovered that we have more money left at the end than we have actually made in our lifetime!
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Alan sat working out his future
How can this be possible? How can we have more money than we earnt? Does that mean that we have lived for free for our entire life so far? Is this normal? Could you do the same? Do you have anything to show for your years of labour?

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