Build wealth. Love your life
From this post, you’d learn about the one thing that matters when it comes to building savings: your monthly cashflow. Building savings is really that simple: if your life costs less than the money you bring home you build savings, if it costs more you build debt. No point over-thinking…
Does your teen think you are poor even when you’ve just returned from a nice holiday in the sun? They may be displaying early symptoms of what is known as a poverty mentality. And if poverty mentality was only mildly unpleasant and offensive to you, I wouldn’t be telling you…
Money. Sometimes, it seems like everything is about money. Often, money is the main factor in our lives. It’s why we work. It’s how we get the things we need. It’s what drives ambition. The lack of it can mean misery, even starvation. We need to make as much money…
‘Here she goes again.’ – I hear you say. Crooning about a good credit score and how to get it. You are right I’m on the go again. After all, I did promise you a series of articles on investing. Let me tell you, investing thirty minutes in checking…
Do you want to know what will save you thousands of pound (dollars) over the next year? Ah, you may be thinking, here is this old trick. She crests our interest and immediately hits us with the same old cr*p. You know the kind I mean. All this stuff…
Do you believe that you have mastered the way to take charge of your money? So did I, so did I. After turning around our financial destiny so dramatically, I developed this sense of personal finance invincibility. You know the one, surely. This is the feeling when you have…
Number blindness is a real affliction. It is not about being lazy learning your maths and it can seriously affect your personal finances. A tiny number of people can look at a column of figures and just know what it adds up to. More people, perhaps 1 in 20, suffer…
Editor’s note: Today, we have a guest post from Zoe Morrison: an eco-friendly money-saving blogger who writes at www.ecothriftyliving.com. Zoe writes about living an affordable lifestyle, even thrifty, and is not damaging to the environment. We found a shared interest in finding ways to avoid food waste so I…
You may think that John and I are an ordinary couple, going around our everyday endeavours and trying to live life as best as we can. You’d be wrong: we have been a quasi-bank – or the bank of mum and dad – for well over a decade now. You…
Have you been keeping up with the Joneses while desperately trying not to? Have you been looking at the neighbour’s car and wishing it was in your drive? Have you been looking at the great suit your colleague is wearing and wishing it was on your back? After that…
Range Rover Evoque is a thing of beauty! Let’s just say that this morning, when I saw ours just delivered in our drive, I couldn’t even make a sound – I just gazed at it with the awe reserved for the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles…
When I was a little girl I didn’t call this chicken fricassee; this was my mother and her friends when they shared cooking tips. I called it ‘white chicken’. My son used to call it ‘baby stew’; now he simply tells me that he eats it not because he enjoys…