Driving to work the other day I heard about the poor misfortunes of Gareth Bale: sidelined in his job, hated by his boss and dreaming of escaping to a new job with a big pay rise – it reminded me of myself 10 years ago… Continue reading “Life lessons for Gareth Bale: or what to do when you hate your job and your boss hates you”
This weekend we had our first guests from AirBnB in a year. How did it go and will we stick with it? Continue reading “Back to AirBnB”
I’ve probably checked my main current account balance everyday – more or less – for the last 15 years. I check my portfolio about once a month but the indices about daily.
Is that too much / too often / too time consuming? Am I obsessed, is this OCD? And what would I do if I was truly FI? Continue reading “How often do you check your bank balance?”
Today during my lunch break I went into a Gregg’s and tried one of their vegan sausage roll. It’s been on the news and in the press; so how was this meat-free pastry? Continue reading “Food Review: Gregg’s Vegan Sausage Roll”
I’m just back down at my desk in work from a small celebration of a colleague’s 5 year anniversary. It’s making me wonder if beyond the paycheck there’s much point to company loyalty. Continue reading “Colleague’s 5 year work anniversary”
It’s been one year since I started this blog and after 90,000 words, 30,000 views and over 100 posts I think it’s been worthwhile. Hopefully you agree. Continue reading “Happy 1 year blogging anniversary to me!”
I overheard a colleague today talking about the repair bill for his car “I’ve just paid off the holiday and this comes out of the blue! I cannae believe it”. Continue reading “There’s no such think as an “out of the blue” bill”
We’ve just booked our ski holiday for 2020 at a cost of £2,600. How does this stack up as far as frugality goes? Continue reading “Ski holiday 2020 booked! FIRE & Snow”
Here is a review of my 12 year experiment with Zopa; the good, the bad an the ugly. Continue reading “A 12 year review of Zopa”
Many in the FI community detest DEBT and I do see its uses but I don’t like how we actually use it. The worst situation to be in is to have someone wanting to borrow money from you – what should you do? Continue reading “Why lending to people who need to borrow is a bad idea”
