Money & Finance

Love of Money is The Root of All Evil!

Love of money may be the root of all evil, but it can be pretty evil if you don’t have any. Getting away from the rat race is one thing and paying off the mortgage might be a dream but there are still bills to pay. Property tax, insurance, shopping – well I’m sure you can make a list as long as your arm.

Having accepted you are always going to need money, what can we do to narrow the gap between what comes in and what goes out? In fact, the answer is obvious.

First of all you reduce what you spend on and then you increase the money coming in.

Let me explain, if you keep a few hens in the garden then you won’t be buying any eggs. So that reduces the money going out. In the summer, those hens will probably lay more eggs than you need. If you sell those surplus eggs then that increases the money coming in.

Now I know a few hens isn’t going to make a fat lot of difference to anybody’s finances but it is a start. A bit of a saving here, a bit of income in there and then one day you realise that you haven’t got a problem any more.

I’m not a financial advisor so any advice is not professional advice and you should not act upon it. That’s called covering my back! My advice comes from having been up to my neck in debt and getting back onto an even keel where we owe nothing to anyone.

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