If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Thrifty Kevin Wilsher, 35, and Lisa Vaughan, 27, from Tilbury, Essex, UK are toasting eBay after spending £1800 on everything for their wedding which will take place on July 17. Their purchases on the auction website included her £89 [...]

You may have heard it before but don’t try to get by without a budget because you will be setting yourself up for financial failure. It’s as simple as that. Without a budget you can’t hope to have control over your finances. Most people usually find that once they start doing a budget they will [...]

When the Treasury Secretary or Finance Minister of country gives a budget statement, there are always winners and losers all across the nation. In a personal/family budget, there are also winners and losers. Before i go into that, please allow me to present to you some reasons for the need to create a budget in [...]

As you might have heard, there is going to be an Emergency Budget statement in Britain later today. The Chancelleor, George Osborne said on a BBc intereview that ‘.. Britain  looks itself in the face and says “We are going to deal with the bills of the past and plan for a brighter future”‘. He [...]

At the begining of this year, my wife, our children and i had a goal-setting family discussion. When it came to my turn, i informed them that one of my goals this year is not  to do “a Usain Bolt”. The following was my explanation to them: On 16th August last year, Usain ‘Lightning’ Bolt became the new [...]

A woman had decided to trim her household budget wherever possible, so instead of having a dress dry-cleaned she washed it by hand. Proud of her savings, she boasted to her husband, “Just think, Fred, we are five dollars richer because I washed this dress by hand.” “Good,” her husband quickly replied. “Wash it again!”

We had the priviledge today of having the General Superintendent of the ELIM Petecostal Movement speak at New Life Bible Church in London. During his message, Rev. John Glass asked the question “How do you measure the height of a tree?”. To many people, the answer will be the distance between the top and bottom of the tree. [...]