Saving and Investing for Self Sufficiency

So we’ve talked about how debt is bad and it needs to be killed off. We’ve highlighted the need to minimise your Tax footprint, and we’ve provoked a bit of thought about where we spend our hard earned cash.

So let’s say for the sake of argument that we’ve cleared all our debt (or at least [...]

Finance for Self Sufficiency

We’re back after a short break, but what on earth happened to the weather? When it starts to rain, after a week of scorching hot sun you know British summertime has arrived!

Our three part series on “Ten practical steps to becoming more self sufficient” generated a lot of interest, but still no comments! So far, [...]

Getting Started - Ten Practical Steps to becoming more Self Sufficient

I thought it was time for a series of articles that give you some practical things you can do to increase your level of self sufficiency. Remember, when we talk about Self Sufficiency we are talking about a change of mindset, taking responsibility for our own, and our family’s needs. To that end here are [...]

UK Budget 2010

Whilst being more self sufficient means that you are, to an extent, slightly insulated from some of the bad events, no one can fail to be concerned about the economic situation and the “wheezing” recovery the UK is currently making. With that, I thought it would be good to have a [...]

Debt is Evil

This might seem like a strange heading for the subject of Self Sufficiency, but it really isn’t. Here’s why…

You can’t be self sufficient if you have debt hanging over you like a weight on your shoulders ready to crush you. The recent economic turmoil demonstrates very ably the mess that people, organisations and even countries [...]