by Maria Nedeva | 4 Aug, 2015 | Big picture, Get out of debt, WTFIFL
Noam Chomsky is one of a rare breed of people. He is a polymath (linguist, philosopher, logician and cognitive scientist) and an erudite. Even more importantly he is a public intellectual who speaks with the voice of reason in a time of mercantile opportunism. For...
by Maria Nedeva | 9 Dec, 2014 | Budgeting, Debt, Get out of debt, Paying off debt
Yesterday I read the story of a guy who took loads of pills and booze trying to kill himself because of debt. He survived and was left with sore tum, hurting head and the embarrassment of failure. Embarrassment for which his parents were very, very grateful....
by Maria Nedeva | 14 Feb, 2013 | Debt, Get out of debt, Paying off debt
It has been some time now since I have written about frugality. The last time I did this, I suppose, was when I made my position on what I call ‘extreme frugality’ (cut your own hair, don’t spend anything on fun and use £4 of petrol to save 4 pence...
by Maria Nedeva | 5 Feb, 2013 | Debt, Eliminate debt, Get out of debt, Paying off debt
Yep, what you are looking at is the expensive bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon that I brought back from Chile and it is empty; it was drunk last Friday and it was really great wine. Even greater was the occasion – we said that we will drink this wine, just the two of us,...
by Maria Nedeva | 1 Jul, 2012 | Get out of debt, Paying off debt
I find that the closer we get to paying off our consumer debt completely the more I tend to reflect on debt management, how we handled debt, how to handle debt in general and could we have done something differently (understand ‘better’). I also have been much more...
