Learn to control money but do not allow it to control you

Double_Trouble

Happy New Year FW

Congrats on your blog success I am being gently nudged in the direction of writing a blog myself by some fellow MSErs and as I know nothing about blogging I shall go and take a look and see how the master or in this case the mistress does it

DTxx

Firewalker

How very interesting and , of course, this makes perfect sense.

Do you remember when I was ranting here about the change to the support of terminally ill people? That the current gov't as part of the NHS Act is proposing to srop the help for terminnaly ill people after 12 months and if they have not managed to die...well tough. We have economic targets to meet and savings to make, in'it?

Remember that I was saying that this makes sense only if assisted suicide is allowed? Guess what? Check this out:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16410118

For the time being it is voluntary but it is only a matter of time.

Firewalker

macgirl

Firewalker wrote: »

Be extraodinary during 2012 - it is in each and everyone of us, we just have to forget our fear.

Firewalker

Just read your news FW :T Massive congratulations and no less than you deserve. I expect we'll see you cropping up on Newsnight when they have their intellectual point of view and get you on with Noam Chomski et al!

Thanks for all your inspiring writing, I wish you the very best x

Firewalker

macgirl wrote: »

Just read your news FW :T Massive congratulations and no less than you deserve. I expect we'll see you cropping up on Newsnight when they have their intellectual point of view and get you on with Noam Chomski et al!

Thanks for all your inspiring writing, I wish you the very best x

Thank you so much, Macgirl. Newsnight? Two years ago I would have said 'you are joking, tight?'. Today I'll just say - 'who knows'.

Firewalker

Firewalker

Hi gang! Do you remember me?

Well I have not been around much; I suppose there is so much writing one can do and it has been going into my day job writing (two very, very good scores there and three lesser journals) and of course my toddler - my blog which is already one year old.

Life has been interesting since January. As I told you, my blog passed into the top 1% of sites on January 1st. It is even better ranked and recently was was proclaimed as a 'mighty site' by a very respected personal finance blog. I have continued thinking, reading and researching all there is to know about money and life, our relationship with money, psychology of money, the economy and banking. Great fun! It is also good news that the blog started paying its costs and a bit on top - well done us (OH writes for it as well; mainly about banks but we have also been holding the attack agains baby boomers - these young people, you know, forgetting that without the boomers they will still be wearing bad haircuts and going to the post office to make a phone call).

We have been paying down the negative wealth - remember that we started with about £100K tww years ago (and two moths but who is counting). Now we are below £40K and there is very good chance that we'll be below £30 by June. Not bad going, I think - best thing is that now it is going down fast because the monthly repayment is mostly principal (when we started it was mostly interest).

DS1 has a job; I mean proper job with pension scheme and all. Not as a teacher which is a pitty - the guy always wanted to teach little kids and rocks at it. But working for Coop bank will have to do - at least they are a good employer and don't higher only for the holidays.

DS3 is almost a teenager - he is growing up tall, strong, handsome and daft as a brush.

DS2 has the makings of a great writer - here is his shopping list:

1) Milk
2) Bread
3) Cheese
4) Sense of purpose in life

Only if!

Now I'll stop and will try to write a bit more often.

Hope everyone is OK and write if you can - tell me how have you been.

Firewalker

beanielou

Good to hear from you
Im plodding on!

Firewalker

Merry Christmas to all on the MSE DFW forum - ones who used to read this tread as well as all new people who have joined since.


Today, my sister and I have had a very good cooking day - Christmas Eve is a big thing in some European countries (and apparently in Scotland as well). In fact, in the tradition of my people, families get together on Christmas Eve and cook many vegetarian meals - there is a fast just before Christmas. Seven different vegetarian meals for good fortune and prosperity. So we cooked (all from scratch, of course):


Baked beans, stuffed vine leaves, stuffed cabbage leaves, bread, baked aubergine dip, sour-kraut salad, monkey nuts and fruit.


All absolutely delicious!


Apart from DS3 having the flu I feel happy and contented. This Christmas we can really see the finish line of the negative wealth repayments (remember we started with about £100K three years ago; it is going down in January, so you could say we are 'functionally' debt free). From January on we are starting to build some serious wealth - there will be posts on my blog about all this.


Have a great Christmas tomorrow, my friends, and may the year ahead be peaceful and abundant!


Firewalker

InaPickle

:xmastree: Merry Christmas, Firewalker: may you, your family and frieds and blog continue to blossom and prosper in the new year, too. :xmastree:

Firewalker

Thank you, InaPickle; prosperity and joy to you as well.

Firewalker

Firewalker

My old friends, this is officially the last post on this diary. Because

We are debt free!

We made the last payment on the loan, the account has been closed and we paid off

£100,000 in three years.

It feels great!

Thanks for your support, warmth and understanding. There is an article on my blog about how we did it.

Firewalker