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Steve's blog: When do you pay your bills?
Ah, bills. Those little envelopes with panelled windows arriving in the post that don’t offer the start of a pleasant conversation but rather a reminder that our resources have, for some reason or another, been committed to someone else this month...

Posted: Feb 15 2010, 05:09 PM by Stephen Nel | with no comments

Steve's blog: When sharks prey
The sometimes turbulent waters of money lending definitely get murkier as you go further down and the chances of coming across less than savoury characters increase as well. The problem of unscrupulous moneylenders taking advantage of the weakness or...
Posted: Dec 10 2009, 09:53 AM by Stephen Nel | with no comments
Steve’s blog – the Psychology of Now
“ I want it all / And I want it now! ” Queen’s rock anthem from the late 80’s summed up much of the mood of the decade – remember how everyone wanted to be a yuppie? Flashy cars, new houses and shiny clothes? While the song...

Posted: Oct 13 2009, 12:18 PM by Stephen Nel | with no comments

Steve’s blog: how’s your lifeboat?
We’ve all been in the situation before: sailing along on a more or less even keel when suddenly an enormous wave appears from nowhere to upset our careful navigation as it threatens to capsize our carefully nurtured boat. How prepared can we be...
Posted: Sep 29 2009, 09:00 AM by Stephen Nel | with 3 comment(s)
The 20% rule and what they don’t tell you about money management
So here’s the thing they don’t really tell you when it comes to all these good money management principles: sticking to them is haaard. Let’s face it, if we were naturally good with our money we wouldn’t get into debt in the first...

Posted: May 19 2009, 09:41 AM by Stephen Nel | with 8 comment(s)