How to Make £30 in 10 Minutes

Even though I tout about how amazing matched betting is to everyone that I meet, I still find that some people simply won’t give it a try. Mostly their reasoning is that they don’t have enough time to ‘learn’ how to do it or that they’re still skeptical of the loads of tax-free income that some people say they are making each month… “It must be illegal.” people say, or “I don’t wanna do anything dodgy....

February 7, 2019 · 5 min · SavingNinja

What goes down must come up? - Savings Report #7

This is a Saving Ninja savings report. Go to How To Track Your Savings to check out the Saving Ninja Super Spreadsheet. Please note that I split my expenses equally with my partner and the savings rate, house equity and house value represent my share only. The spreadsheet calculates my savings rate based off £12,000 worth of expenses per year, even though my expenses are actually Less Than 10k Per Year ....

February 2, 2019 · 4 min · SavingNinja

Minimalism Part 2 - Clothes, clothes, everywhere!

A couple of months ago I proposed in Minimalism Part 1 that I was going to attempt to bring new life to my home by discarding and organising everything that I own. Me and the Mrs have now read the Marie Kondo book; The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying . So we feel that we’re ready to tackle the first category… Clothes! Back in November I split my Minimalism journey into 8 categories to better manage the heft of it all....

January 31, 2019 · 16 min · SavingNinja

How to Work in the City on a Budget

Since I started commuting and working in London almost two years ago, I’ve met a lot of people that say they can’t save money due to big cities being too expensive. London is one of the most expensive places in the world, but I’ve learned over this period that spending is still a choice. In-fact, I think bigger cities have cheaper options than some of the more rural places, you just need to know what to look for....

January 24, 2019 · 7 min · SavingNinja

RESET Book Review

A couple of months ago I was contacted by David Sawyer to review his book; RESET . Being an avid reader and never having read a UK centric Financial Independence book before, I happily obliged. One of my goals for 2019 is to read more Financial Independence orientated books, so RESET was a great first one to pick up! My all time favorite FI book is ‘Early Retirement Extreme ’ by Jacob Fisker....

January 17, 2019 · 6 min · SavingNinja