Read more RICHARD'S BLOG Profiting from Edwardian Social Media – Postcards The whirlwind that is ‘social media’ has, in recent years, engulfed us with unseemly haste. It has bestowed upon us a whole new, rather comic, lexicon: terms such as ‘blogging’, ‘crowdsourcing’, ‘Twitter’, ‘Facebook’, ‘Instagram’, ‘meme’ and ‘phishing’. And did you know that you can now be personally rated by...
Read more RICHARD'S BLOG How I sold £3,729.40 worth of jigsaw puzzles in 2014 It is often said that you can both prove and disprove anything using the same set of statistics… and I guess that’s true. It all depends how they are presented. For instance, my headline claims that I sold £3,729.40 worth of jigsaw puzzles last year… and that is true....
Read more RICHARD'S BLOG Get Paid to Go Shopping Cliff, a friend of ours, is passionate about old MG sports cars, real ale, steam trains and walking. As my wife also likes walking and I like real ale and classic cars, we have fallen into a comfortable routine of going for ‘pub walks’ around our local countryside in...
Read more RICHARD'S BLOG How to Profit From Garden Centres… and Even John Lewis Some years ago when I first became serious about buying and selling online, I started very cautiously by finding stock offline and then selling online, initially on Amazon.co.uk. The stock was the kind which can be sourced by anyone, nothing special you understand. The only difference between me and...
Read more RICHARD'S BLOG Treasure Hunt Results! In recent days my inbox was flooded with entries for the Christmas ‘Profit Box’ Treasure Hunt and the grand draw for correct entries took place yesterday. All winners have now been notified by email and their treasure will be on the way to them in the post without delay....
Read more RICHARD'S BLOG My £3,000 – £5,000 Challenge (& Diet) I awoke on Monday morning to find with horror that I had been visited overnight by the ‘fat fairy’! …Not a large overweight fairy you understand, but the kind which bestows large amounts of unwelcome padding around your middle whilst you are asleep, and without your permission. This did...
Read more RICHARD'S BLOG Treasure Hunt Madness One dark and chilly night, back in 1982, my brother and I were to be found holed up in our local pub supping pints of bitter and peering intently at a very large map. Oblivious to all others in the pub, we were suddenly thrown in a state of...
Read more RICHARD'S BLOG A True Christmas Story…and News of Treasure I have sat down every week now for the last two years to write this Maverick Money Report newsletter, and I really enjoy it. Yet there are times when I do wonder what my next topic will be about… …And then suddenly I find inspiration, either from something I...
Read more RICHARD'S BLOG Which Consumer Review Websites to Trust Last weekend was a bit of a nightmare for me: I had been suspecting it for a few days, but by Saturday morning I knew for certain that our main drain was blocked. It’s easy to take our underground drainage system for granted… that is until it all goes...
Read more RICHARD'S BLOG When Is a £ Pound Not a Pound? The pound may seem like a static and stable part of our everyday lives, but in reality its value never stays constant. Some may recall the rather famous speech by former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1967, when in an attempt to control the UK economy and narrow...
