Flying with babies/toddlers is expensive

We 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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Deciding the lights for our new house

We recently bought land and built our home in Tokyo. I wrote about the general design process, and in this post I will write about how we decided our lights. We have moved in 2 months ago, so I will also reflect on how well our ideas are working out so far.

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The full cost of building our house in Tokyo

We recently bought land and built our home in Tokyo. I have wrote about the various costs, but in this post I’ll provide the full breakdown on how much our home cost.

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The garden of our new house

We recently built our home in Tokyo with Ichijo. One thing that surprised me was that the house maker companies only build the house itself, and leave the outside construction to another company. This was the case with Ichijo too, so we had to arrange the garden with another company.

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Choosing my life insurance - part 2

I recently decided to get life insurance (収入保障保険), but I couldn’t complete the sign-up online. This is the second part of this story, so I recommend reading part 1 first.

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