My discussion with a friend of mine led to me to writethe blogpost “New Year Resolutions, Habits and Addictions” at the end of last year. The same person came to me after i offered the eBook Stop Compulsive Spending Right Now for sale a few days later. He wanted to know why i was only offering [...]
Quit Excessive Spending Today
January 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
We ae only a few days into the new year and already many people are feeling the pain, guilt and the resentment of their overspending during the Christmas season. The season has never been the problem, Chrsitmas is always in December every year, how we prepare for it is waht makes or breaks us and [...]
Financial Leadership – Nigerian Style
October 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
My cousin, Toyin, forwarded an email to me a few days ago entitled – Letter to Nigerian Parents. The letter was unsigned but from the content i knew it was from someone who is as frustrated at seeing the kind of bad financial examples that some parents are giving their children – even adult ones. [...]
Ten Golden Rules For Debt Repayment
October 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Every leader needs people that will help them accomplish their goals – even leaders in family finances. After yesterday’s post i thought i should give some help in the debt repayment efforts with these Ten Golden Rules For Debt Repayment: Don’t borrow money to pay off your debts without thinking very carefully about it. If [...]
How is the high the cost of living affecting you?
July 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Despite their reputations for high prices, neither London nor New York city is the most expensive city in the world. Shocking!! The title went to Luanda in Angola as officially the world’s most expensive to live in, followed by Tokyo and N’Djamena in Chad. At the other end of the scale, Karachi in Pakistan is [...]
Funny Friday – Police In Search Blunder
July 8, 2011 By 2 Comments
The police in Salzberg, Austria have been forced to apologise after a teenager missing for two weeks was found – in custody!. Dario Dvker was at the center of a huge manhunt in the town until the 19-year-old saw a TV report of himself while being held be police over the theft of a computer. [...]
33% Used Credit Cards To Ease January Payday Pain
February 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A third of credit card holders confessed that they relied on credit cards to cover everyday living costs during January – a survey revealed this week. Even more people admitted they had used their cards to pay for grocery shopping during the month, according to the Post Office. ‘The long gap between December and January [...]
Funny Friday – 2011 Year Of The Tablets
January 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I came across an article a few days ago which was comparing the different brands of tablets that will be hitting the stores this year including an new version of the popular iPad. The most fascinating part of the article for me was the picture attached to it (similar to the one here) . This [...]
Did You Use Your Bank Card on New Year’s Eve? Check Your Account Now!
January 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It has just come to light that about 200,000 people who use their bank cards to pay for items on New Year’s Eve could have been charged twice – because of a payment system error. Shoppers with a range of different cards were hit with the Lloyds TSB Cardnet fault. You don’t have to bank [...]
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 [...]
Daft Supermarket “Deals” May Be Costing You Money
September 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Are you really getting the ‘deals’ that supermarkets say they are giving you? Maybe not. Shoppers at some supermarkets are being duped into buying ‘big value’ packs which are often more expensive than smaller sizes. Consumer champion Which? found more than 600 examples where the larger packs was worse in value than normal versions. Which? [...]
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