Taxing Issues on Tax Avoidance
Unless you’ve been living in a cave over the last year, you know that tax avoidance has been one of the biggest business stories of the year. It’s become a legal blood-sport for press and politicians. Deride naughty tax avoiding brands, and have readers and voters sagely nodding, while darkly…
Saving With Surya
To clarify this from the beginning: Surya is the Hindu god of the sun – celebrated in regular festivals and venerated by a billion or so followers in India and beyond. It may seem rather trite to combine the concept of frugality with such a cherished idol, and certainly,…
The perils of motoring
We all fear it, those of us who take to motoring. That time when you are stuck in a traffic jam or worse, car full of kids, outside temperature rising – or raining cats and dogs – and the engine starts to falter – putter, putter, putter … silence. This…
My First Experience Earning Extra Money and Lessons Learned
Editor’s note: This post by Little House from Little House in the Valley is part of the Yakezie blog-swap. You can read my post on Little House in the Valley. By 14, I’d become the neighborhood babysitter, making $5 an hour I’d watch up to three children per household. My…
Job Search: From Cloudy to Clear View
Editor’s note: This week Alex offers some of his experience with different job search websites. It seems he is onto something: he has had impressive response using a different job search website. This week a dark cloud has been lifted in regards to gaining job interviews. Over time I…
You want a new car?
From time to time, most of us who need a car also need to consider when to change it. There are some folk who are wedded to their vehicle, come what may, and will happily spend all their waking hours under the bonnet fixing a hole because they are…
The Building Blocks of Money
Keeping track of your finances can be a full time job. Add in a family plus a career and what you’ll probably end up with is a migraine. Spending cautiously doesn’t have to be incredibly time consuming nor does it have to be complicated. All you need is the right…
Five points to help you decide whether to hire a car when on holiday
When paying off debt many people go ‘cold turkey’ – no fun, no holidays, none of the little pleasures in life that are not absolutely necessary. To me, this has always smacked a bit of a crash diet where you hardly eat anything for days denying yourself the base…
Job Applications: Please Enter Your Name, Address and Life Story Below
Editor’s note: This week Alex tackles the issue of job applications. How much do employers really need to know from the job application and do you need to be an enthusiastic high achiever to get a cleaning job? This week I’d like to spread some thought-seeds around the subject of…
Investor confidence debate: me on video
Several weeks back I was approached by representatives of TD Direct Investing with an offer to co-produce some content. The e-mail mentioned the results of a survey carried out for TD Direct Investing that showed some interesting results. Naturally I assumed…well, I don’t know what I assumed but I remember…
Principled Money Posts #51: how break out of Catch-22 situations
Note: Some good blogger-friends of mine have nominated The Money Principle in two categories of this year’s Plutus awards: for Best International Blog and for Best Kept Secret Blog. The Money Principle needs your vote! Voting is easy: just look to the right and you’ll see a golden cup with…
Is it the End of the Euro As We Know it? Find out with Saxo Markets’ #TradingDebates Event
Editor’s note: This announcement of an exciting event in London to discuss an important issue in European finance can be of interest for our readers in the UK: both personal finance bloggers and ordinary readers interested in the latest developments and well informed opinion/debate. We were invited to attend but…