Music, Freelancing, Art, Ideas

Abby and I have made the first plunge! We just set up an ING Direct joint account for travel – our new resolution is to keep contributing to this over time and have it dedicated exclusively to seeing the world. I’m really excited about this idea, and it will be great to have guilt-free travel money accumulating with our normal savings. I also switched my normal brick-and-mortar bank account savings into an ING Direct personal savings acouunt (I’ve been reading a lot of work by Ramit Sethi). First off the phone support is great, and I’ve now got automatic transfers set up to help meet my savings goals (and hopefully a start to my financial freedom life goal). I know saving money is not enough by itself, but it’s a good step.

I’ve determined that my current freelance work generates about 5% of my total income. I’m trying to think of other ways that I can boost this to be a larger percentage and have been brainstorming different freelance ideas. As things develop I’ll post more about the possibilities.