We bought a 4-year-old second-hand minivan (Toyota Voxy) last year. Since it is turning 5 years old soon, it was up for the biannual vehicle inspection (車検, shaken), which we just completed recently.
Read moreWe bought a second-hand minivan last year and took out optional insurance for it. Since it’s been almost a year, the insurance is up for renewal.
Read moreWe recently built our home in Tokyo with Ichijo. Before deciding to build our home, I run the numbers and concluded that neither owning nor renting was clearly financially superior. (I was happy to see later that much more knowledgeable people arrived to the same conclusion.) We still decided to own our home for non-financial reasons. In this post (and future updates), I’ll track how our financial results compare to if we had continued renting.
Read moreWe recently built our home in Tokyo with Ichijo. I already wrote about the process of designing our house, and designing our lighting, and in this post I’ll write about the major design ideas we used for our house.
Read moreWe had our first kid 2 years ago and the second baby was born recently. We went to Hungary in both of the last summers, and will be going this summer too. I wrote about our experience the first time, and I will now write about why flying with babies and toddlers gets pretty expensive.
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