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How is your Sunday going? Mine is great. I’m packing for my next trip – this time to Georgia the Country – while looking at a very large Christmas tree and writing this note to you, friend. Why the hurry? Because I just realised that I have not chatted to…
You have heard about the ever rising price of Bitcoin, right? There has been so much noise about it in the media lately that I doubt you’ve missed it. While the price of Bitcoin has been going up, I’d still don’t think it has any value. Please read this, and…
We all know people who handle money completely differently from the rest of their family or their partner. One spends, and the other saves to the point of making the eagle scream. Basically, there are four different types of people when it comes to money. You can even take quizzes…
In this post, I discuss seven ways to get you away from viewing a job redundancy as the end of your dreams and see it as the opportunity of a lifetime. Faced with job redundancy, we feel fearful and stressed; this is only to be expected. Heck, I want to…
Are you thinking about starting an online business? I bet you are. After all, you read blogs and when the small matter of making a large income comes on the agenda what do you hear? You hear that to make more money you should start a blog. Even I told…
Do you worry about the stock market? You do? Good! As I told my students yesterday, to worry about the stock market means that there is nothing more serious going on in the world. I do worry about the stock market a lot as well. My concern is not…
If I ask you to tell me three money rules fast which ones are they going to be? [Take a minute to think about it and let me know in the comments.] The ones I’d most likely think about are: Spend less than you make. Stash the difference away….
How many breaks have you had in the last twelve months? Just asking because today I realised that I no longer feel guilty spending on experiences. And for me the main experience is travel; getting out of my comfort zone and learning about new places, customs and cultures. You…
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…
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…
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…
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…