Take a bow if you stayed within your budget over Christmas or even made a budget. If you did, you are one of the very few that knows restraint and planning. Its’ not surprising that the rest of us loosened…

Take a bow if you stayed within your budget over Christmas or even made a budget. If you did, you are one of the very few that knows restraint and planning. Its’ not surprising that the rest of us loosened…
So I put down the glass of wine and tied up my work boots for a brand new year of madness and mayhem. The festive season has come to a close and we all look down the barrel of 2017…
Anyone who has ever read a book about paying off debt or saving money will inevitably read about the ten percent rule where you save ten percent of your gross income. It’s not that easy to do, right? So many…
Ever since I started on this road to financial freedom I pay particular attention to the words people use when they are talking about their financial situation. I have heard people explain their situation as an elaborate trap they got…
I recently read a story about the winner of a popular reality television show who on winning received one million dollars. He was interviewed years later and asked if he had any of the million left. He told a story…
You probably find it a bit exciting to imagine what it will be like being totally debt free with money in the bank and having not a care in the world knowing you have your nest egg, right? There was…
I find it easy these days to get a little annoyed at the hidden tricks that advertisers use that squeeze every dollar they can from the unsuspecting public. It’s not just the trick to make television ads louder to get…
If you have read some of my stories on this blog you would know that I struggled for a time having been clueless about money and wealth and lived pay to pay in an endless cycle from payday Kiev to…
With the speed of information these days it can be a little overwhelming to understand the intricacies of your superannuation, pension, mortgage and insurance etc. Most of us prefer to let the experts handle our choices and we assume they…