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Archive for July, 2007

baby boomer with no pension: find out your current position

The ‘baby boom’ took place between 1945 and about 1960 (approximately) and the boomers will be approaching retirement shortly. If you’re a boomer and you have no (or very little) pension in place, what should you be doing?
Your first port of call is to find out how much state pension you are likely to be [...]

additional income possibilities: side jobs

One way of keeping more money is to bring in some additional income. If you have a regular full-time job, then unless you really need the money, I probably wouldn’t recommend getting a permanent part-time job as it’ll knacker you out and quality of of life now is as important as the future. On the [...]

money and wedding gifts

JD over at get rich slowly posted an interesting readers question on how to be more frugal with gift giving. As is often the case some of the comment interchange metamorphasised slightly, in this case about the gift giving at a wedding. I wanted to respond to some criticisms of my views but felt that [...]

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