Reviews : The Money Principle

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To live or to exist: this is the question! One Year Lived by Adam Shepard

Published Apr 20, 2013 | By Maria | Posted in Reviews | 2 Comments

Since January I have been mostly on the road; I have been travelling in Europe (this one is easy), I have been to South Africa and to Oman. Heck, looking back at my schedule, I have been to four continents since October! And at the end of each leg of [...] Continue Reading...

Principled Money Posts #39: …and since when being poor is offensive?

Published Apr 14, 2013 | By Maria | Posted in Reviews, Websites | 9 Comments

Couple of weeks ago my son, who is just twelve years old, came back from school and announced that he will '...beat ten bags of sh*t out of this stupid b*stards who are dissing him for being poor'. Now, usually our son is not allowed to get away [...] Continue Reading...

Money management 101: tools of the trade

Published Jan 17, 2013 | By Maria | Posted in Debt movement, Reviews, Websites | 3 Comments

This is a review of OnTrees: a web-based money management tool that allows you to link all your accounts, budget and compare financial products. One distant cold and dark November evening in Sofia my mum, just before she got on the tram to go back home, looked [...] Continue Reading...

Business Day TV Presents Gravity Pro Consulting

Published Jan 15, 2013 | By Maria | Posted in Guest posts, Reviews | Leave a comment

Gravity Pro Consulting is a certified SAP Channel Partner that is an industry leader in the retail, apparel, and footwear space. They specialize in reselling SAP solutions and providing implementation services, as well as a wide range of other services to clients. The end goal is to make sure that [...] Continue Reading...

An insurance community serving the public: a review of Ampminsure

Published Jan 7, 2013 | By Maria | Posted in Reviews, Websites | 4 Comments

Ampminsure is a platform bringing together an insurance community, aiming to help the public by solving their insurance related queries. It’s dedicated to serve the consumers and guide them towards better understanding of how the insurance industry functions. However, the Ampminsure community is different from other insurance platforms because it's [...] Continue Reading...

Do you read blogs by people who are in debt?

Published Feb 14, 2012 | By Maria | Posted in Big picture, Reviews | 26 Comments

Sometime ago now, Nelson at Financial Uproar published a post asking why aren’t personal finance bloggers wealthier . Whilst I don’t always agree with him, in fact I rarely do, I have a soft spot for Nelson: with his strong opinions, brash confidence and crude humour he makes me think [...] Continue Reading...

Principled money posts of the week

Published Nov 20, 2011 | By Maria | Posted in Reviews, Websites | 13 Comments

It is Sunday again and after the breathless speed of the week it is time for reflection. I am finding it harder to decide which posts to include: most blogs I follow publish interesting, well written articles. My experience with difficult choices tells me that when the going gets tough [...] Continue Reading...

To budget or to have a budget?

Published Jun 1, 2011 | By Maria | Posted in Budgeting, Reviews, Spend money | Leave a comment

I don’t seem to mix well with budgets. Having a budget to me is like wearing a pair of shoes that have 10 cm high heels, pointy toes and are a size too small: restrictive, uncomfortable and outright painful. Good budgets are like comfortable shoes; they may not be very [...] Continue Reading...

Ferriss, Timothy (2007) The-4 Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

Published May 30, 2011 | By Maria | Posted in Books, Reviews | 4 Comments

This review was written by Jan Armitage from Renovation and DIY: the green path . Thank you, Jan, for being my first guest contributor. I hope you are the first of many. I read this book a few months ago from cover to cover. And last month I re-read [...] Continue Reading...

Why my first budget was a complete disaster?

Published May 25, 2011 | By Maria | Posted in Reviews, Spend money | 2 Comments

I can safely say that my first budget was a total and unmitigated disaster. Why was it a disaster? The short answer is because it failed – I never lived my first budget but simply feared and loathed it. I suspect, however, that this is one of the cases where [...] Continue Reading...

Clason, George S., The Richest Man in Babylon

Published May 23, 2011 | By Maria | Posted in Books, Reviews | 1 Comment

Interested in Money? Let us go back to Babylon George Samuel Clason was a very interesting man. He was born in 1874 in the US and his first passion was maps; he started the Clason Map Company and published the first road atlas of the United States and Canada. [...] Continue Reading...

What do young people talk about when they talk about money?

Published May 17, 2011 | By Maria | Posted in Reviews, Websites | 4 Comments

Sometime ago I noticed that our conversations change roughly every decade of our lives. In our 20s we usually discuss relationships, parties and sex. In our 30s we start talking about houses, mortgages, cars, re-modelling our kitchens and having children. In our forties we discuss health insurance, pensions and investments, [...] Continue Reading...

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