Tag: Japan

Buying Mobile Phones

Spend as little as possible I started this year off… poorly, by dropping my mobile phone in the bath. It was a fairly old one, so not waterproof in any way. Despite trying to dry it out in a bag of rice, etc. it never recovered. RIP Nexus 5x, you served me faithfully for 2.5 […]

Other Progress 2018

Bit of a mixed year This is the last progress report, and contains everything else. In a way NISA and iDeCo are easy, because they are a bit of a no-brainer and can be set up and basically ignored after that. Figuring out what else to do is more challenging. This year I did mainly […]

Giving Progress 2018

Start now There are basically two schools of thought regarding giving money away. One says that you should wait until you are rich/comfortable, at which point you will be able to give away more money. The other says that if you don’t give money away when you only have a little, you won’t do so […]

iDeCo Progress 2018

iDeCo

Slow and steady iDeCo is a retirement account (like a US 401k) that locks up your money until you are sixty years old. In exchange, you get to invest pre-tax income (which reduces your income taxes) and won’t get taxed on your investments while they are in the account. When you eventually cash out you […]

NISA Progress 2018

The slow steady grind A NISA account is a way to invest without paying capital gains tax or taxes on dividends. Pretty much anyone who lives in Japan can open one. For more information, check out our Beginner’s Guide to NISA Accounts in Japan. Every year I write a progress report so you can follow […]

The Monday Read

Getting used to the new site Writing this in WordPress instead of Weebly Well, we’re settling into our new home. Finding a lot of little things to fix so give us until next week and then if you notice anything after that please let us know 🙂 Here are this week’s links: I should start […]