I’ve been getting really into listening to podcasts this week. Ever since I left uni, I’ve missed learning about different cultures, books, and historical events in my lectures. Of course, now that Zoom learning is so prevalent, I could always ask my current-student friends for the invite code, but I’m […]

Continuing on from our last post, we’re looking at how to feel all cottagecore this weekend. Why not settle in and make a whole evening of it, drinking a cup of tea and tackling a cottagecore activity.  Far from being passé, crochet has actually taken teens by storm. A trending […]

I read a Tweet earlier this month, by Laura Steven. It read: “Small joy and big joy are the same thing. That’s the secret.” And it’s true! I’m no happier sitting at home eating a square of chocolate than I am out at a restaurant having a lava cake. You […]

This week I’ve been really trying to get back into reading. I grew up being one of those kids that could read a book a day, but like many other kids my age, burnt out by the end of high school and hasn’t read anything that wasn’t a dry-as-a-bone academic […]

The best thing about the internet is that there is a community for everything. Male My Little Pony fans? A specific group for the people super interested in the 2012 sleeper-hit The Lorax? FaceBook pages for people all pretending that they are the orcs from the Lord of the Rings? […]

Maybe it’s time to introduce myself. My name’s Aliya, I’m twenty-one, and I work with the Thousand Dollar Journal team to bring out all of these blog posts every day (give or take!). Wednesdays are now becoming the day that I’ll share all about my saving journey, what I’m doing […]

If you believe the internet, the average person now gets the amount of information in a day that a person in the 1800s would get in a week. Apparently, that’s one of the key reasons that we’ve become so anxious as a generation, because our brains get so overload with […]