I contributed to a piece about finance tips posted in the Beeld this week. Since the original article was posted in Afrikaans, I decided to translate it and add it to my blog as well. Enjoy (as much as one can enjoy reading about finances)! Avoid short-term debt Getting into debt is the easiest thing …
Achieving financial freedom is not about retiring, it is about sleeping well at night, knowing you can do anything your heart desires. If you want to take off a month and travel the world, you can. If you like the job you are doing, then you are not under pressure to change jobs to earn …
The key to Financial Independence Retire Early (FI RE) is adopting good habits and applying them consistently. I don’t want to sound like a Prudential advertisement, so bear with me. The problem is we don’t always know which habits we should keep and which to kick to the curb. Here are some of the financial …
We want our children to be money savvy and this is, unfortunately, one of the things they will never learn in school. We started working and found out about taxes, loans, interest and all the financial terms that we had to know. Systematically, we started figuring out what was going on around us. Then one …
While at university Today I want to tell you a hypothetical story about the true cost of debt. You went to school for 12 years, only to go to university for another 4 years. Your whole life you have never had your own money. Even at university all of your money came from your parents. …