How to be Blissfully Secure About Your Future When You Have No Money At All
This is absolutely impossible! – I hear you thinking. Well, it isn’t impossible. I spent all of last week with someone who has no money at all and is blissfully secure about her future: my sister. I hadn’t spent time alone with my sister for three decades at least: there…
FX Trading and the Big Bad Swiss Franc: Three Lessons You’d be Foolish to Ignore
We received some interesting comments on our post about FX trading and spread betting. One of the most heartfelt was the ‘Don’t do it!’ by our friend Sara from the Debt Camel. (We love her site and if you need no-nonsense information about debt busting go, have a look!)…
Pips are Not Only Fruit: An Introduction to FX Trading
Editor’s note: We’ve been researching FX trading – and its cousins spread betting and contact for difference (CFD) for a good while now. John has been dabbling, with some success, as well. Still, FX trading is a ‘high entry’ endeavour: it’s specialised, demands varied knowledge, needs level headedness, understanding of…
Four Things to do When You Are Victim of Identity Theft
Did you hear the one about the prisoner who sent instructions for his own bail? Yep. There was a time when breaking out of prison needed ropes, guns, physical prowess and about a ton of courage. Today, it only needs a smart mobile phone as the case of Neil Moore…
Popular Credit Score Myths You Must Eliminate
Understanding how credit ratings are calculated is the key to ensuring you are doing everything possible to build up the best score possible. This means being able to decipher fact from fiction and knowing the truth about credit scores. Here is a look at some of the most popular…
150 Easy Ways to Make Money and Why You Should Try Some of Them
Have you been looking for a job and had with little, or no success? Don’t fret. I’ve selected, and shared, approximately 150 easy ways to make money – try them because the image above is a picture of the future of employment. Why do you need to try ways to…
The Dos and Don’ts of Alternative Investing
Have you ever asked yourself how to invest money? Has a painting from an up-and-coming artist caught your eye in a local gallery? Or have you considered fixing up vintage cars and reselling them at a mark-up? These are all forms of alternative investments. If you want to diversify your…
Common Credit Score Myths
There are a surprising number of myths surrounding the things that affect your credit score. Understanding the truth can help you to improve your current rating, prevent problems occurring or simply allow you to maintain the good score you have managed to build. Here is a look at some of…
Are You a Mortgage Prisoner and What Can You do About It?
You may not realise it yet but you could be a mortgage prisoner, like tens of thousands of other homeowners across the country. You may be blissfully (well not quite blissfully) paying off your mortgage every month, completely unaware that when your mortgage deal comes to an close at the…
Better Safe Than Sorry: 10 Ways to Guard Against Identity Theft
‘Who the heck would want to be me?’ This is the question I ask myself while watching my colleague neatly putting the early version of our paper through a shredder. You see, my colleague has history that made her very cautious. This involved breach of privacy and exposure to unwanted…
How To Be a Frugal Artist Without Even Trying
Yesterday I was training with my personal trainer. Great lad! We got talking. I told him that my strength to weight ratio has gone completely the wrong way because of my writing. You see, the more I write, the less I move; the less I move the heavier and less…
Skint to Mint: How We Messed Up Our Finances and Came Out on Top
Several weeks back my friend Lazy Man from Lazy Man and Money asked me whether I’d like to guest post on his blog. “What? You must be joking.” – I thought. I had wanted to have a post on Lazy Man and Money for about a year now; just didn’t…