Recipe For Financial Freedom

Welcome to the next post on cooking money blog, your Recipe for Financial Freedom. Since this is the first month of the Year 2012 I figured I should pen down the Goals for this blog. This year’s goals are way different than the goals of 2008 and the financial resolutions of 2008 that I had [...]

This new year i.e. in 2012 I have decided to revamp cookingmoney.com and reposition it. Its been more than four years this blog has been running (pathetically though). I have ignored it for a long time. This is high time that this blog gets a makeover and change tracks for good. Before I go any [...]

Last three trading days for the Indian stock markets were carnage. Bears pulled down the market and almost every major market across the world was in Red. This is due to some or the other crisis (this time it’s a debt crisis) which I won’t delve into. Yesterday i.e. August 9, 2011 some of the [...]

It is a rare occasion in India wherein people dispose of unnecessary things from their homes. Well, today I got lucky for the second time when another of my colleagues relocated to a newly purchased house near Delhi. Apparently she decided to get some new furniture for the new house. She decided to sell and [...]

Buying a home is once in a lifetime decision for average personnel. It requires huge investment and a debt burden over a long period of 15 to 20 years. This critical decision requires careful planning on the part of the buyer. One has to carefully plan the location, the type of home to buy and [...]

After almost three years of downtime the website is back online. Yes its a long period, during which I have been traveling, got married, changed jobs and moved yet again to another city. After such a long period I decided to write again for the website to track my financials which I believe has improved [...]

This might seem huge risk to any body who is reading this. I have applied for a loan from my employer. As per the service rules of my company I am eligible for an interest free loan of Rs 50,000/- payable in 10 equal installments. This loan would put me in some more debt (you [...]

After reading almost 50 posts of the Carnival of Financial Goal #2. I am bit tired now, but I think Sam has done a very good job. There were some quite interesting posts and goals to be found on the carnival. I also secured a place in the carnival, with my post which i could [...]

Now that you have got the idea what leveraging is I want you to know how you can improve upon your relationships? Most of you would know might these simple steps and may know that it is not a rocket science. The day when you make your first relationship (the day when you are born) [...]

Debt! This is the most commonly word used on this blog; I have used it in the context of how to reduce it, effects of debt and in various other forms. Paying off my debt is my number one priority. Debt is not necessarily as bad as I have mentioned before, by definition it is [...]