The Christmas shopping season began several weeks ago but since some of the most popular shopping days are still ahead of us, i though i should just share them with you. I hope you enjoy this countdown to Christmas 2011. Nov. 25 – Black Friday – the day after Thanksgiving, you have time off from [...]
How To Spread The Christmas Cheer Without Breaking the Bank
October 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I do not celebrate halloween and as i’m not an American neither do i have a Thanksgiving weekend, though i give thanks to God every single day, so as late as it might seem these days, my Christmas blogging begins today. I hope you will enjoy and be encouraged by my blogposts this Christmas season. [...]
Funny Friday – Christmassy Pot Noodles
October 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I woke up a bit late this morning – by no fault of my own. The earth did it. The nights are getting longer and the days shorter which means winter is here and with it the much-loved (or dreaded) christmas holiday season. My story today is nothing to be sniffed at – since it [...]
UK’s New Christmas Day Pastime
January 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It has been widely publicised that this past Christmas has been a mixed bag of fortunes for different industries all over western world. While some holiday companies and retailers are lamenting the reduction in ‘footfall’ and hence profit due to the unprecedented snowfall others are patting themselves on the back because of sale increases form [...]
Peace On Earth … And In Your Wallet
December 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The spirit of Christmas is peace - peace on earth, goodwill to all men. Christmas is a time of giving and sharing with the less fortunate. Over the last 70 years commercialism of the festive period has given many the license to indulge in consumerism instead of being others-centred. People now go all-out to try [...]
Have You Made This Classic Christmas Shopping Mistake Again?
December 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Over the past few weeks, financial analysts have been giving all sort of predictions about how much sales retailers are aiming to make during this year’s festive season. For example, Barclays predicted that Christmas shoppers will spend eight percent more than they did last year bringing the total spending to around £50billion. £18billion of those [...]
Christmas Cash Cracker #4 – Create A ‘Monetized’ Blog
November 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
One of my favorite ways to make money online is with blogging – simply set up a blog for your niche market. Niche marketing and blogging go hand in hand.Your niche can be what you are most interested in or have a degree of expertise in I’ve set up several small blogs for niches that [...]
Christmas Cash Cracker #3 – Start An Online Business
November 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It is my hope that the last two Christmas Cash Crackers have put you in the frame of mind to at least try starting a home business of your own. Everybody has at least one thing that they are passionate about; something that you can become an authority in because of your current know-how. Mind [...]
Christmas Cash Crackers #2 – eBay Referrals
October 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I hope you have been able to register with eBay and put some items up for sale as i suggested last week. If that is the case then you already know at least a little something about making money by selling products on the world’s largest marketplace. This week i want to take the ‘Ebay [...]
Christmas Cash Cracker #1 – Cash For Your Trash
October 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Welcome to the first Christmas Cash Cracker – Cash for your trash. It has been said that charity begins at home and that’s where this Cash Cracker will begin. It is a known fact that every household has about £1000 worth of items that are unneeded, unused, in good condition and are under your noses [...]
Christmas Cash Crackers
October 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This is a follow-up of my “Preparing For Christmas In A Recession” posts last week. I have been an advocate for achieving Financial Freedom through reducing debt and increasing income where possible but every year during the Festive season, people seem to do just the opposite with excessive spending and getting very little (if any [...]
Preparing For Christmas In A Recession – Part 2
October 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Following on from my post yesterday – how does one prepare for the festive season in a recesssion and in-between jobs? Once you have acknowledged that your “cheese has been moved” or that your source of income has dried up, it is time to look for new source(s) of income. How you accomplish this requires [...]
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