This weekend gone I watched a TV programme that follows a family of seven as they look for a new home and life in Las Vegas. The programme starts with the family asleep in their car – their home until they find somewhere in Vegas. As a family struggling to make ends meet it was a difficult programme to watch. View full article »
Category: Secure Future
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I want to share my experiences of investing so far and explain how I came to start investing. I started investing officially at the beginning of November this year but it took me about 2 years of steady reading to get my head around the idea. The information I want to share with you below is not meant as financial advice but rather as a taster of how I came to invest. View full article »
The Thrift Diaries has officially been live for six months. It’s been a period of experimentation and change but one that I’ve enjoyed every step of the way. Today I’d like to share with you the first ever post followed by all the most-viewed posts to give you a flavour of the direction that The Thrift Diaries is going in. View full article »
One of the greatest things about personal finance management is that there is always something to do. For example, once you have put aside some money (by cutting costs or increasing your income) there’s the question of what to do with it. Simply saying I want to earn the most I can isn’t enough for sifting through the numerous products you can use to save your money.
Should I invest it? Should I put it in a savings account? These are two initial questions you might ask but there are even more questions you should be asking including: View full article »
Most of the posts on this website are biased. This is because I chose a particular route after I graduated which was a full-time graduate job. When I was in my last year of university I knew that I wanted a guaranteed income after university. It was early on that I knew this (around September) and so I started applying for jobs.
I may be stating the obvious but this isn’t necessarily the right route for you. As a graduate I would advise that you should think carefully about the choices you make in your final year. If you know 100% what you want to do then there’s no stopping you making things happen. View full article »
One thing that has stuck with me throughout my job applications (including for part-time jobs) is the amount of times I’ve mentioned tennis.
I started playing tennis competitively at the age of six and competed until I was 14. After this I continued to play the sport but played on a more friendly basis. It formed a large part of my childhood and character. More than anything it has formed the basis of my graduate job applications. View full article »
I started investing this month. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a while and I’ve been researching investing for a couple of years. I decided that as a student I wasn’t willing to risk my money as I didn’t have a predictable income but now that I’m working full-time I figured now was the time to start. View full article »
This blog aims to show students and others how to save money. I’ve tried sharing the techniques that I used during university to reduce costs and ensure I left university with a good amount of money in the bank. It’s all very well sharing these tips but do they actually work? Can you really save money as a student? The answer is YES. View full article »
Free money? Surely that’s impossible. Well apparently not. At many firms the benefits for employees are numerous. One particular benefit is a company pension. Yes, pensions sound boring and irrelevant to young people especially students but give me a chance to explain.
