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The Opportunity Cost of One Hour of Your Life

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The opportunity cost of 1 hour of your life What is an hour of your life worth? Think about it for 60 seconds. Seriously.  If you’re like a lot of people I’ve asked this question, you’d respond with “priceless!”. Priceless… Really? What you’ll find is that there is a huge difference between the perceived value… Read more

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How to Invest Money for Financial Independence In 10 Years

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How to Invest Money for Financial independence In 10 Years Welcome to the 8th Reader Case Studies on The Humble Penny. The goal of these case studies is to solve real problems. If you’re new to this, the case studies are a way for me to better interact with the subscribers of this blog. I… Read more

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Is Keeping Up With The Joneses Destroying Your Future? 

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Is Keeping Up With The Joneses Destroying Your Future?  I recently received an email from a reader about something that we an all relate to. Clare wrote in having self-diagnosed herself as “keeping up with the Joneses“. Hats off Clare, I love your honesty! She is afraid that this path will cripple her financially and… Read more

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How To Save Money: How I Saved My First £100,000

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How To Save Money: How I Saved My First £100K What would it feel like to have £100,000 saved up? For many, how to save money remains a challenge and £100k is seen as unimaginable especially with savings rates at all time lows. I was pleased to learn recently that Jeni Crane (38) had hit… Read more

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Common Parenting Behaviours That Affect A Child’s Future Financially

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Common Parenting Behaviours That Affect A Child’s Future Financially Parenting is a subject that we can all relate to in our way or another. The thing about parenting though is that you never know how challenging it is until you’re in the driving seat yourself. It remains one of the most challenging things I have… Read more

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How to Travel Cheap On a Budget While On a Low Income

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How to Travel Cheap On a Budget While On a Low Income “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul” – Jamie Lyn Beatty If you picked 100 people and asked them one thing they’d do in the world if they had no money worries, more than 80 would likely say travelling.  The desire… Read more

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Self-Employed Pension: 9 Retirement Savings Hacks

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Self-Employed Pension: 9 Retirement Savings Hacks – Ad | This is a paid partnership with PensionBee. We all dream of becoming our own bosses one day.  The idea that we can work our own hours and call the shots is very attractive. Many of us are even doing so today with some living the laptop… Read more

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How To Invest In Stocks With Confidence: Step-by-Step For Beginners

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How To Invest In Stocks With Confidence: Step-by-Step For Beginners I remember when I took the leap to make my very first investment. Even though I had trained as a Chartered Accountant, I still had so many unanswered questions. In fact, I feared that my hard-earned cash would disappear into the ether of the internet…. Read more

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Money and Life Lessons From My 20 years As An Immigrant

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Money and Life Lessons From My 20 years As An Immigrant It’s 7 am on a Saturday in July 2019 and I’m in my little office at home with a cup of tea to my side and headphones on. Music of choice today is Hans Zimmer’s ‘Time’ and Zack Hemsey’s ‘The Way’.  Perfect for a… Read more

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The House Crowd Review: Should You Invest?

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The House Crowd Review: Should You Invest? – Ad | This is a paid partnership with The House Crowd. Please do your research before investing. Peer-to-peer lending is a risky asset class. This is not financial advice. Peer-to-Peer Lending as an alternative asset class sits between savings or shares. As with any asset class, it… Read more

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How A Health Experiment Led Me To Financial Independence

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How A Health Experiment Led Me To Financial Independence “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolf Today we have a guest post from one of our readers. I thought Jeni would be a great contributor after reading some of her comments in our community on… Read more

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Inheritance Tax – How Should You Prepare?

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Inheritance Tax Planning – How Should You Prepare? Tax is the biggest expense we all have to pay throughout our lives. It’s so big relative to many people’s incomes, yet most don’t give it a second thought. By far the most unexpected tax of all is inheritance tax. The unexpected nature of death (for most… Read more

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