We constantly hear about being unhealthy: physically, mentally, spiritually and financially, and we are also given lots of information, ideas, trends, plans and treatments on how to get healthy. So, I thought it was time to give those of you…
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend, sang Marilyn Monroe, and Madonna. What made them that? and more to the point what has that got to do with personal finance? Well, quite a bit. This week’s article may seem a bit…
For one family the $50 million dream is over, but for seven others the $7.1 million dream is about to begin. Now, I’m not typically a lotto player. Given the choice between investing $20 in a Lotto ticket or a…
In 1913 Sigmund Freud wrote “Money questions will be treated by cultured people in the same manner as sexual matters, with the same inconsistency, prudishness, and hypocrisy”. More than 100 years later, many find it easier to talk about sex,…
Way back in May 2015, I wrote a blog post about an article that I found in The Telegraph by Jim Leaviss. Judging by the number of comments (at the time there were 3,208 of them) plus all of the social media shares;…
Before all the negative comments start to fly about money not being the be-all and end-all in life (which I happen to agree with by the way), there is a serious reason for me asking this question. So, let's start…
We have a 10-minute test in our household. We start a movie or a new show, and, if after 10 minutes we aren’t enjoying it, we stop, and choose something else. This is sunk costs in action. We are prepared…
Thanks to a Kiwi radio station, the term’ girl math’ blew up on Tik Tok last year. Is it really something new? No, it’s been around for a very long time. Should it be taken seriously? Maybe, it’s a way…
We are being told that frugal is the way to go. We are all tightening our belts, as the cost of living and servicing our mortgage (or rent) increases. I’m not disagreeing with this as a strategy. But like everything…
The cost of food and how much we spend on groceries, is a topic that always comes up when I am talking to my clients. “How come we spend so much each month”, and “how can we bring our grocery…