5 Ways to Make Money before you Start University
Your years at university can be among the most fun, educational, exciting and liberating of your life. However, before starting, you need to make sure you are prepared for it mentally, emotionally and financially. For many people, going to university can be a big change in their lives, particularly if…
Tax, prices and pensions: should Amazon pay taxes in the UK?
Having returned from our Easter-free break in Bulgaria (we missed the Western Easter and the Orthodox Easter is not until May this year so we miss that too), it was time to catch up with reading, some of which had deposited itself on the doormat. Among these were back-issues…
Principled Money Posts #40: from ‘vamp’ to ‘frump’ and back
The other day while clearing my desk draws, blasting this ‘clear your environment’ stuff, I came across a CD. Curiosity won (as it usually does with me) and a minute later I was looking at pictures taken on the day of my 45th birthday. I was looking at these…
To live or to exist: this is the question! One Year Lived by Adam Shepard
Since January I have been mostly on the road; I have been travelling in Europe (this one is easy), I have been to South Africa and to Oman. Heck, looking back at my schedule, I have been to four continents since October! And at the end of each leg of…
A Penniless Wealth of Time
Editor’s note: This is another one of the series of posts by Alex charting his way out of the rut of unemployment. Well it is back to the grindstone of filling time. After two weeks wilfully participating in a great work-based training course it is now down to myself alone…
Binary options trading: what’s the deal?
At The Money Principle, we seem to be specialising in achieving impossible targets! Our regular readers will know that, having paid off a large amount of debt, we are now aiming to build wealth – some £2.5million worth – over quite a short time – 5 years. There is no…
The Turning of the Page
Editor’s note: This is another post by Alex – this time as an exception it is on Monday. He is still keeping the Friday slot on TMP. I have now finished the two week work-based training course conducted by ICM (Institute of Customer Management), and if I’m honest I’m…
Principled Money Posts #39: …and since when being poor is offensive?
Couple of weeks ago my son, who is just twelve years old, came back from school and announced that he will ‘…beat ten bags of sh*t out of this stupid b*stards who are dissing him for being poor’. Now, usually our son is not allowed to get away with…
Let’s talk about pensions, baby: ‘lump sum’ vs. ‘annuity’
Now that my foray into the property selling/nationality mess up domain is over, I opened my work e-mail for the first time in about a week. And there it was – a reminder that I should be preparing my retirement (not even an early one, guys) and thinking about…
Top Tips on Buying Cars
Now more than perhaps ever before, household budgets are under extreme pressure. Buying and running a car is one area where hard decisions are being made. For some people, the question is whether they really need a car at all or whether they can afford one. The costs can soon…
Margaret Thatcher – a view of a life
Over thirty years ago, I was sitting in my friend Bill’s front room watching the results of the 1979 UK General Election with horror. Britain certainly had many internal problems – low productivity, general malaise, strikes and so on – but the solution did not appear to be the increase…
About free money and silly design: not all is as it seems
This has been long coming; I have not had a good rant on here for a very long time (in fact, I have probably ranted twice before) and the time is…NOW. If anyone is not in the mood for a collective catharsis through ranting, please stop reading; go do something…