Share Options are the Option to buy Shares in a company for a particular price, the strike price. Share Options are often provided as an incentive when working at non-public companies. They are especially common in technology firms. …

With cash saving rates so low, everyone is asking: Where do I put my savings? Should I overpay the mortgage instead? Keeping in cash is less and less attractive as inflation erodes your cash’s buying power as the years go by. One obvious answer is to overpay your mortgage. If…

The other-MM and I love to batch cook. We batch cook on a Sunday once every month or so. It creates healthy meals we can enjoy all week. Not only that, they are cheap to prepare. With portions less than a £1 I recently posted about how we batch cook…

The other-MM and I love our food. We’ve been together for 19 years this October and every single one of those years we’ve loved food. A little too much! But food is also a social activity for us. Whether it be eating out, or cooking together. We talk. We help…

The Money Mage household needed some critical maintenance on the outside this year. We bought the property 7 years ago and have mostly focussed inside, as outside wasn’t too bad. But over the past 7 years, outside has been deteriorating. We have two balconies that needed some resurfacing & repair…

We live in a low cost of living city. An hour away from Edinburgh, in Dundee, Scotland. Dundee has a really bad reputation. Unfairly, in my view. I’ve lived here for 16 years now, initially living in one of its notorious council estates. Do you know what? It was fine…

‘They’re a well off couple’. ‘They have no children though!’ Dual Income. No Kids. Yet another DINK. It’s true. I am one half of a DINK couple. And I’m proud of that. I’m perfectly content with my decision to never have kids. I have zero regrets about my child-free life…

Pensions in the UK are an amazing way to save for ‘early retirement’. Including super early retirement, like retiring in your 40s or 30s. If you plan your pensions in your 20s you will be on the path to wealth generation. …

Money Mage is a Personal Finance blog. Over the past few days, I have felt a growing need to speak outside my field. I’ve been looking in horror at the right-wing trend that is taking over the West. The continued murdering of black people by authorities. Populist world leaders stoking…