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Continue reading →: Our Fionist personal update – Q2 2024Welcome to our second Fionist quarterly update of 2024. In this post, we’ll get you up to date on what we’ve been up to since the last update and where we stand in terms of reaching the goals we set for ourselves on Rosh Hashana 5784. Feel free to click…
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Continue reading →: Finn’s mom’s absolutely refreshing fruit soupFinn here. This past year, my mom passed away. Since then, I have felt more of a need to share the family traditions and recipes I grew up on with my kids. I hope that they will remember these things from their childhoods and will want to pass them on…
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Continue reading →: Tel Aviv City Break: How we celebrated our anniversary in styleRemember our daytrip to Tel Aviv for our anniversary last year? That was lots of fun. In fact, we enjoyed it so much that we went back again this year – and stayed the night! The photo above shows the view from our hotel window. Hello, beach! This was our…
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Continue reading →: Do you use a Rav Kav? If you do, you’re probably paying too much.If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you probably know that we are happily car-free and have been for six and a half years now. In that time, not having a car has saved us upwards of 100,000 shekels – which has all been invested instead. While we occasionally…
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Continue reading →: How to read your Israeli pension statementEach quarter and at the end of each year, you should receive this document from the investment company that manages your pension account. Many people, including us in the past, would just ignore it and forget about it. However, not knowing what’s going on in your pension can be costly.…
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Continue reading →: Taking extended parental leave? Make sure to read this first.Mazal tov on your precious new baby! Have you ever thought to yourself – or heard someone say: “With the cost of daycare so high, it just makes more sense for me to stay home.” This is a particularly common misconception, especially among parents of two or more small children…
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Continue reading →: Our kids love this DIY money game – as do we. Here’s how to play.Remember COVID? Of course you do. Around this time four years ago, we were locked down at home with a stir-crazy and very creative three-year-old who really wanted to get out and go shopping. She informed us that she was heading to the store, pushed a laundry basket to our…
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Continue reading →: Our Fionist personal update – Q1 2024Welcome to our first Fionist quarterly update of 2024! In this post, we’ll get you up to date on what we’ve been up to in the first three months of this year and where we stand in terms of reaching the goals we set for ourselves on Rosh Hashana 5784.…
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Our top 5 “luxury” appliances that save us 11 hours of housework per week
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Continue reading →: Our top 5 “luxury” appliances that save us 11 hours of housework per weekIf you’re familiar with our story, you’ll know that there was a point in our lives when we were new parents making just over minimum wage. Things were very tight and we made do with the basics. Slowly but surely, we got better paying jobs and our income increased. While…
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Our short, sweet & unforgettable mother-daughter European adventure
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Continue reading →: Our short, sweet & unforgettable mother-daughter European adventureEver since I organized and went on a(n inexpensive) ladies’ European getaway in 2021, my daughter has been begging for a mother-daughter #ladyvacay of our own. As flight prices tend to go wayyyy down in the winter, I had decided last year that I’d snag cheap tickets to a nearby…
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