This is a well written guest blog by FunShine who is another good example of prudence in personal finance and discipline in investing for income:
Diary of an Investor
- Ever since I have become more open with my portfolio, you get different friends asking or commenting on me for different things.
- There are those that are surprised as some always thought that I am poor as I worked in social services for the past 11 years. I openly shared that my first job, the pay was only 1.6k after CPF. Plus I do not drive and live a frugal and prudent life other than my toy collecting hobby and my MTG hobby.
- There is another group that asked how did you do it? I just say when my salary increase, I still live like how I will live based on my first job's pay...
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