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Month: February 2017

(late) 2016 annual accounts

(late) 2016 annual accounts

I was pretty ill over towards the end of 2016 with bronchitis so didn’t get round to doing an annual sum-up back then. Instead I’ll look at the 12 months from Jan 2016 – Jan 2017. Here’s a late and brief summery:   Total income for this year was: £73,177.17 Total expenses for this year was: £32,577.26 Of that total expenses, £9,909.91 was wedding related so can be written off (assuming I don’t get married again!). Total expenses less wedding…

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The young are already rich

The young are already rich

A couple of weeks ago while mindlessly scrolling through the usual motivational poster type rubbish which frequently fills my Facebook news feed I spotted one which actually made me stop and think. I can’t remember the exact wording but it went something along the lines of: Warren Buffett (86) is the worlds most successful investors with a networth of billions of dollars, and yet would you swap places with him? Billions of dollars? Sign me up! But at 86 years…

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Side Hustles update 2017

Side Hustles update 2017

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while now however have struggled to find the time or energy to do so. Looking back on my post history, I was somewhat shocked to see that I haven’t actually written anything other than the monthly income/expenses for almost 9 months! What the hell have I been doing over all that time? Back in November/ December 2015 time I spoke about attending the FIRE Escape meetup and having a long chat…

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January 2017 Income/Expenses

January 2017 Income/Expenses

It’s Feb 5th which means we are mega late for this month’s Income/Expenses! January was a very busy month for me, I spent alot of time both matched betting and working on the www.MatchedBettingGuy.com website. While I love matched betting, there’s no doubt that it can be tough work and is entirely active income. Taking some tips from Huw @ FFB40 he advised me to start building up additional passive income streams which would tick over each month without much…

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