Memoir Blast #2 — The Sweden Money Disaster (and How I Survived)

Memoir Blast #2 — The Sweden Money Disaster 

(and How I Survived)

We moved to Sweden on a Friday.

By Monday, Rich flew to Spain for a week and accidentally left me 500 crowns instead of 5000.
£35 instead of £350.

A brand‑new country.
A brand‑new language I didn’t speak.
A brand‑new life I had no idea how to navigate.

And there I was — alone, underfunded, overwhelmed, and completely unprepared.

But I managed.
I stretched that tiny amount of money across days that felt impossibly long.
I learned the city by walking it.
I learned the shops by guessing.
I learned the currency by trial and error.
I learned myself by necessity.
It was chaos.
It was courage.
It was survival.

And it was the beginning of a year that would change everything.