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Continue reading →: Never ending paperworkMost of us hate to deal with paperwork. This includes all of the documents we get from different companies, employers, service providers both digitally, and even worse, by snail mail. It’s easy just to throw it into a closet, a folder, a box, delete or ignore in your email and…
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Continue reading →: Your bank is not your friendBanks around the world all have one thing in common. Their main goal is to make money off you in any way they can. Israeli banks are no different. They are going to charge you an arm and a leg unless YOU put a stop to it. Did you know…
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Continue reading →: Understanding your tlush maskoret (pay stub)If you are an employee, you receive a payslip from your employer each month showing you what you were paid and what was deducted. For a lot of people this can appear like complete gibberish. Understanding what is written on your tlush (pay stub) is very important so you can…
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Continue reading →: The Fionists meet Lazy FI DadWhen pursuing a goal, it is always important to find role models and make connections with other people in the same boat. Upon perusing other FI blogs one day, we saw the word Israel pop up on one of Lazy FI Dad‘s posts. It turns out he is an Israeli…
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Continue reading →: 8 more ways to lower your monthly expensesAs of writing this post (December, 2022), inflation in Israel is at 5.1% year to date. We all have been feeling the cost of living going up. If you have been reading our blog for the past few months we are strong on budgeting and tracking expenses. Unlike fixed monthly…
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Continue reading →: Your step by step guide to using BuyMeDisclaimer: This post is not sponsored by BuyMe. It is legitimately confusing to use (on purpose, I’m pretty sure) but just about all of us get it, it is valuable, and it can free up real money for other uses. Chaval not to use it. I recently treated a friend…
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Continue reading →: 5 ways to get “free” money from the governmentWhile the Israeli government taxes us and takes our money left and right, it also has several programs you might not know about where you can get some of it back. Most people are not eligible for every single one of these, but as we say, knowledge is power. Even…
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Continue reading →: When it’s chilly, make some chili.Like many young couples thrown into the adventure of new parenthood, we were low earners, making slightly above 11K net combined, and suddenly had to stretch our same income to cover daycare and baby equipment. We had to figure out how to get the best deals on diapers, wipes and…
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Continue reading →: “Markets are DOWN. It’s a TERRIBLE time to invest.” (…or is it?)You may have noticed that your pension and keren hishtalmut have lost money this year – as have many other investments. It’s been a bad year for stock markets around the world. So… it must be a bad time to invest, right? Why throw my hard-earned money into something that’s…
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Continue reading →: Our 2000 shekel chol hamoed family vacation in IsraelAs a few of us have birthdays in the fall and it’s off-season, that is generally the time of year we choose for family vacations. By September, we had built up a slush fund since we decided months ago that we wanted to vacation this fall, but we still hadn’t…
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