Women are Better Investors than Men…But Why Are They Not Investing?
Investment – it’s a man’s world, right? Women are happy to have savings accounts, but when it comes to stocks, shares and other investments, it’s the men who get results, not women. Thankfully, that previous statement is a complete mythology. There’s no evidence to support the statement that only men…
Investing for Mavericks: 5 Fun Investments to Spice Up Your Portfolio
Do you think investing is boring? I did think that for a good part of my life. Things change and we change with them, the saying goes. In my case, this means that I may not be an ‘investing maverick’ yet but an ‘investing luddite’ I’m no more. What I…
How to save up to £60 every month by making easy changes to avoid food waste
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…
Assumptions Cost You Big Money and the Science behind That
Big mistakes cost you big money. At least, this is how it works with me. Making the mistake of not looking after our finances cost me £100,000 worth of consumer debt. (Shameful, I know. What gets me most is that even today, if I mention this to people I…
Bank of Mum and Dad: Where do You Stand in the Dance of Generations?
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…
When Did You Start Saving for Retirement?
Saving for retirement has not been on my mind recently. I used to worry about saving for retirement in my 20s. Started saving for retirement, through the extremely beneficial pension scheme of UK universities that has just been changed, in my 30s. In my 40s I worried a bit about…
Feed Yourself for £1 a Day: Would You Take the Challenge?
People have been taking the Feed Yourself for £1 a day challenge for different causes; most of these to do with alleviating poverty around the world. These people don’t need to feed on £1 a day. They can spend more, eat better and spend less time worrying about what…
About Keeping Up With the Joneses and Why Fighting It Is Futile
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…
Five Reasons Not to Buy a Range Rover Evoque
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…
Eat for Less: My Mother’s Chicken Fricassee
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…
Eat for Less: This is How to Cook a Perfect Spanish Omelette
Last night, our Mexican visitor made Spanish omelette for us. Or to use its proper name ‘tortilla de patatas’. “Maria, I can’t really cook. I like cleaning more.” This is what she told me when I said that we like people staying in our house to be part of the…
12 Things I Would Do if I Have No Money (and entering a beauty contest is certainly not one of them)
Let me make this clear from the outset: I really mean if I have no money at all. Because some people clearly have very little idea about having no money. You want an example? Well, you can have a look at this article on Lifehack.org; a site otherwise I have…