The Cottage and Investments - Part Four

What have you been learning in the library here over recent months?

Now that the main question of the day has been presented, how would you prefer to answer it?

The Cottage and Investments - Part Three

Welcome back to Frugality Cottage if you are here mainly to follow this series about the cottage and investments.

Have you ever been the owner or part owner of a private investment fund over which you have had, and possibly still have, a controlling interest?

Do you have much experience as an angel investor?

The Cottage and Investments - Part Two

Do you usually associate cottages with villages?

Do you usually associate villages with farm workers?

Do you usually associate cottages and/or villages with urban development and/or urban decay?

Cottages and villages are only ever abandoned by their former occupants as a consequence of catastrophes.

Have you recently divested from any fossil fuel associated industries?

Have you ever invested in cruise lines, hotels, airlines, restaurants, holiday cottages, gift shops, tour companies and/or hire car providers?

Travel agents have long been known to persuade people to book travel experiences for which they are unsuited, primarily due to the fact that such agents gained commissions for doing so.

Financial institutions have also long been known to use unscrupulous tactics to encourage people to part with money, too.

Have you ever toured any other famous cottage?

Do you think sensitively about the history of a ruined cottage?

The Cottage and Investments - Part One

What do you already know about well-informed investing?

The Cottage and Quaintness

Are you aware of the etymology of the word quaint?

Do you imagine this cottage to be in the orné style or storybook style or otherwise picturesque?

Do you associate the cottage garden with an ornamental farm?

Are you well acquainted with quaintness?

Do you know much about the quaintness industry?

Do you associate quaintness with nostalgia or even eccentric, quirky behaviour?

Are you amused by the quaint?

Do you associate quaintness with peculiar traditions?

Do you think quaintness is usually rather whimsical?

Do you associate quaintness with vernacular architecture?

Do you usually put the words "cottage" and "quaintness" together?

Perhaps you currently live in a quaintly rustic hut or a stylishly converted barn.

Perhaps you associate quaintness with kitsch or confuse the two.

Do you associate quaint cottages with Merry England and/or historicism?

Do you know anything about Merry Australia?

Do you usually associate quaintness with anachronisms?