2019 End of Year Networth Update

2019 End of Year Networth Update

Not much has changed since my Summer Networth update back in June. Work continues to tick along day-to-day although I did manage to negotiate 2 days a week working from home which saves on commute costs and means more time around family. We had an amazing year Matched Betting, with a record monthly high of almost £12,000 back in September. It’s been an interesting year with an obvious reduction in sports offers, thankfully I’ve replaced many of these losses with…

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2019 A Year in Review

2019 A Year in Review

2019 has been a very long year for me, filled with incredible highs and lows as we welcomed a new addition to the family and said goodbye to another. Personally it is a year I will never forget and one that has kept me very busy. Financially however the year was very boring, so much so that I’ve neglected to update this site for many months.  I maintain my view that good personal finance is boring as hell and I’m…

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Summer Networth update

Summer Networth update

Has anyone else noticed as you get older time seems to fly passed with an ever-increasing speed? It doesn’t seem that long ago that I last wrote a massive update on here and yet looking back it’s actually been over 6 months. Alot has changed in that time so perhaps now is as good as any to provide an update for anyone who still lurks around these parts. Work Back in April I had some (relatively minor) surgery which meant…

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Well now, this changes everything

Well now, this changes everything

It seems life over the past year or so has been chugging along like an old steam train passing through the vast plains of the old American west. Occasionally it might approach a bend, or need to stop at a dusty wooden built town, but inevitably the steam cloud starts rising again and onward the train goes without much change of pace or purpose. This has been my life for the past couple of years; everything has been on autopilot…

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October 2018 Networth update

October 2018 Networth update

Good afternoon everyone, I hope you all had a lovely hot summer as we move into the cold dark winter months already. I’ve been AWOL a long time from this site while I focused on other things, both personally and financially, so it’s time for an update on them all. Work Work continues to tick by on the normal 9-5, I’ve been busy trying to look busy and probably failing most days. I had a chat with my manager about…

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June 2018 Networth update

June 2018 Networth update

May/June have been really tough months for me and so I was too busy to post an update the end of May. A couple of months ago my mother was diagnosed with cancer, initially it was just a single area however in mid-May we found out it was spreading. My parents have lived abroad for 10 years now in a large house which requires alot of maintaince so I flew over there at the start of June to visit them…

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April 2018 Networth update

April 2018 Networth update

It’s already May, the sun is shining and so what better time to take a look back at the past month. Work Work continues to tick on by with increasing predictability. I work in an open plan office but it may as well be 6ft high cubicals on some days. My work has certainly got to the point now where nothing is particularly challenging anymore and so I can have most daily tasks completed within an hour leaving the next…

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March 2018 Networth update

March 2018 Networth update

It’s the first day of work after the bank holiday so time for my monthly networth update. I’m gonna try splitting things up a bit more going forward to add a bit more depth into my figures and what’s been going on the past month. Work The excitement in work this month was having to spend a long weekend up in Scarborough to do an IT rollout. While I didn’t particularly enjoy the 4 hour drive up there (7 hours…

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February 2018 Networth and life update

February 2018 Networth and life update

Wow, first post of 2018 and it’s already March. I apologise to anyone who follows this tracking every month for the large gap in networth and post updates so far this year. I’ve had alot going on which caused a big disruption to my finances and so I didn’t think it worthwhile to post any income/expenses for December & Jan as the figures would be spiking around all over the place. On a personal level I was quite ill in…

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November 2017 Networth

November 2017 Networth

This past month has pretty much been on auto-pilot, which is ironic considering my recent thoughts on how boring personal finance can be. I spent quite alot of time speaking with my accountant trying to get my tax liability finally sorted. HMRC seem to have a real problem with me switching jobs during the last tax year whilst also running my own micro business and receiving various P11D company benefits.  Also annoying is that self assessment assumes you’ll continue making…

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