How to Earn like a Beggar and Live like a Baller

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My husband and I didn't have to file income tax this year because we didn't make enough money. In fact, we haven't made enough money to file taxes in a few years. And still we manage to travel. A lot. In the past six years, we've been to the Philippines, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Mexico, Palau, and Thailand. People often ask how we're able to travel so much, so we put our heads together and came up with some things that make our gypsy lifestyle possible—a few tips for anyone who is looking to do a little vagabonding. Jason wrote some of these and I wrote others, in case the narration gets confusing. Most of these tips have to do with either saving up for a trip in advance or staying thrifty while you're on the road. Not all of these tips will be practical for everyone, but they work for us and a lot of people we know.

Monthly Photo Journal: January - February 2013

Left to right, top to bottom: A nice dusk, sunset view from our backyard.// Me & Prada. // Fendi napping. // The makeshift grill Jason rigged up. // Jason grilling some chicken on the grill. // My favorite fruit- mangosteen. // I planted some wheatgrass- it was already sprouting the next day. // The wheatgrass after 5 days. // We harvested some of the wheatgrass & made a smoothie-- it was pretty tasty. // A day at the beach. // We went to Tacloban for a visa run and played legit BINGO for the first time {we didn't win} // Jason playing an arcade game. // I won big at this game-- the 150 ticket grand prize! // We had a lot of tickets and this kid was following us around "helping" us, so I made his day and gave him all of our tickets {in exchange for a picture, lol} // On the van ride back home, crossing the bridge from Leyte back to Samar.

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I have had nothing but time on my hands since we've moved to the Philippines. It's actually been pretty nice- doing what I want to do, no stress because work, getting to spend all day (and night) with my husband.... I am taking full advantage of our situation right now because I know it won't last forever and we'll be back on the working grind again soon.

My recent interest in cooking has been making me spend a lot of time on Pinterest and Foodgawker finding recipes. I pin and save so many recipes on a daily basis- I have hundreds. And although I know I won't make every single one, I do plan on trying most of them {when I have the resources}.

The other day, I decided I wanted to organize all the recipes I want to try into a program that I could use offline and that would allow me to print the recipes if I wanted to. First I thought about doing it through a word processing program, like OpenOffice. But I didn't like the fact that I would have to open a new document for every recipe. So then I did some research online for free cookbook software-- and I found one that fit my wants and needs called “Cookbook Portable”. And yes- it is 110% FREE and I really like it.