The trouble with personal blogs is they tend to become havens for discussing everything. You start out with the intention of discussing a singular issue, and over time they branch out, diversify, and to an extent, dilute. I’ve noticed I talk a lot about money and finance: while that is linked to “buying a house” [...]

Who amongst you rolled your eyes when you saw that title? It’s OK to admit it. As a child, I was routinely told “charity begins at home”, and therefore never got round to really doing much about ‘giving’. Giving to charity is something rich people do, right? Something you’ll “do next month”. You may want [...]

It’s no secret I drive a lot in my commute to work and back. A good day sees me traveling about 60 miles round trip. If I go elsewhere, have to use my car to go someplace else, and factor in personal millage, this can easily be 100 miles a day. I work 6 days [...]

I’m addicted to Money blogs. One that I read with monotonous regularity is Five Cent Nickel. I know that’s a US site, but a lot of it still holds valid, irrespective of the particular market you apply the principles to. One of their posts on The Lending Club got me started looking for alternatives.
I’d been [...]

I was reading another blog today, and it posed the question: Where do you envisage yourself to be in five years time, financially and physically? Such a simple question on the face of it. 14 words. 19 syllables. Infinite possible answers.
I pondered this for a while, then decided it’d be worth putting on ‘paper’ and [...]