Category Archives: Money

House

By Naomi | Published: 03/07/2010
What makes us live within our means or push ourselves to our financial limit and even exceed it? I grew up with parents, well my mother in particular, for whom the thought of being in debt was horrifying. They never had much money (enough, but no more) and with that we had a holiday every [...]
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Oh

By Naomi | Published: 01/04/2010
Today I overheard a lady say to another “I just shouldn’t come into town”. The other said “I know, it’s awful isn’t it. I know if I come I’m going to spend money”. The first replied “You just can’t help yourself can you though?”……
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Brink

By Naomi | Published: 14/02/2010
We are on the brink of something. For the past two years we’ve been getting back on our feet since the move and really thinking about what we want our business to achieve. In that time, life has been nail-biting, at least where finances are concerned. We’ve had pretty much as little income we could [...]
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Affluenza

By Naomi | Published: 28/08/2009
affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. (Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic, John de Graaf, David Wann & Thomas H. Naylor)
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