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Have you ever wondered who the richest people in the world are? There are some names that everyone seems to already know – like Bill Gates of course although I am surprised he is still number one as I thought he had long since been overtaken, but it’s interesting to see who else is on the ‘rich list’, where they made their money and what country they are from.

I was just looking at a graphic that shows all this information on Visual Economics and was not surprised to see that the majority of the richest come from the USA – of course it makes sense that the worlds richest country would have the worlds richest people in it. There is only one person from the UK on the list – I know we are a little country but I have to say I thought there would be more than that, come on UK, buck up your ideas and try harder next time

I’d love to be rich, who wouldn’t? But the riches some of these people have is just insane, what could anyone ever really do in a lifetime with $40b? You’d need 100 lifetimes!

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Whenever I see big cities on the telly I think, thank heck I don’t live there – I know that some people love the hustle and bustle of city life but it’s just not for me.

Having said that I hardly live out in the sticks, I am in a quiet village in Yorkshire but live only a stones throw away from two of the UKs biggest cities!

I was watching a show last week that was sort of recapping the 2000s and there was a news piece on from when London first introduced the congestion charge and they were talking about how many people would now take to using bikes to get around and they showed someone using a fold up bike to show how convenient they were.

Sure enough since the early 2000s the number of cyclists in London has almost doubled and Brompton who were once Undiscovered Business Entrepreneurs who make these great fold up bikes have gone from strength to strength. They are a London based company that have been making the folding cycle since the 1970s and will hopefully continue to do so and keep growing in the process.

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I watched a show last night that was taking a look back at “the noughties” and it was pretty interesting – hard to believe for example that MP3 players didn’t even exist last decade. Also they spoke about Internet dating – my fiance and I met online ten years ago now and it’s true that that was not something we shouted about back then whereas these days it’s totally socially acceptable for people to meet online.

It was the first part of two I believe, so I look forward to watching the rest

Why is it that the emergency payday loans and debt consolidation industry and services have somewhat of a bad name? Online especially people associate it with spam and pushy salesmen.

I love watching shows about money and debts, Spendaholics is probably my favourite — it is super informative and helpful and really highlights how to take care of your money – plus of course it has the essential drama and emotion and trash TV aspects to it that are vital in any show I love, if it ain’t trashy I ain’t interested.

I think I am sensible with money, very much so, but the show taught me that even the most sensible of people can find themselves in trouble due to unforeseen circumstances. No one can ever really know what is around the corner and it’s good to educate yourself so you at least know what options you have available to you should the worst happen to you.

My911Loan.com are a well known and respected company and offer emergency loans to those in need. There’s no faxing required and no credit check, so it’s super fast, just fill in the form with your details directly on the site and they will get back to you.

So, we are back from our holiday now and like always we sent print postcards to our parents — why we bother though I am not sure as most of the time we end up getting back before they do and that’s certainly true this time around. We sent them on the third day of our trip and they still aren’t here, we’ve been back three days!

It is nice to send postcards though don’t you think? Communication is so easy these days with the Internet being so prolific and texting — so it’s nice to be a little old school and send an actual physical letter. Plus my mum enjoys collecting them, we always have to get her one with a picture of the place we are on it

If there’s one thing I like to think I am good at, it’s video contests. I have a creative mind and my word I have watched enough reality TV over the years to know what makes for compelling viewing. I enter video contests whenever I can and have even won a few — I’ve not hit the jackpot and won anything major yet, but it’s coming, I am sure of it

I am about to enter the Singapore F1 Season Video Contest – “City of the Night” at VisitSingapore.com, it’s an awesome website offering Singapore F1 Events Information and news, so worth a look for all F1 fans

The contest runs from now until the end of the month and the 3 lucky winners, deemed as those who submit the most creative and original videos will win a lovely trip to Singapore and passes to the 2009 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix.

A pretty sweet prize for racing fans I am sure you will agree, my other half would love me so much more if I won this for us.

So I’d better get my thinking cap on, I need to come up with something that is fully able to express how the season is more than ‘Just a race’.

I was flipping through some trashy magazine that my mum had passed on to me a few days ago and wondering why I was bothering — the content of these magazines really doesn’t float my boat, I don’t understand why people care what diets the celebs are on this week or who’s been seen partying where. In this particular magazine there was a big two page story titled ‘Oh No, Skinny Celebs’ where they were complaining about size zero apparently becoming popular among celebs again — the article included a picture of ’scary skinny’ Jessica Alba and mused how small she was at a reported size 4. Jump forward about 10 pages and there is an article about how Jessica Alba ‘Beat the pregnancy pounds’, there’s an interview with her where she is being told she looks gorgeous and asking her how she did it.

What? If they can’t even make their minds up in one issue it really says a lot doesn’t it?

The only aspect of these magazines I enjoy is the fashion and style sections, but I am much better off buying actual fashion magazines for those. Sit me down with an issue of Vogue instead any day

Of course I could never afford the fashions that appear in Vogue, they had a feature on Louis Vuitton handbags that cost more than my first car a few issues ago.

But thankfully these days replicas rule the roost for us ‘normal’ folks with ‘normal’ bank balances, you can pick up fake designer name handbags for a fraction of the cost of the real thing and let’s be honest, 95% of the people who see you rocking the bag won’t even know the difference.

As long as you know what to look out for and make sure you get a good fake, I really don’t see the point in selling off a kidney to get the real deal

I feel bad for people who had Michael Jackson tickets, especially those that bought them off of eBay sellers and the like because they have no chance of seeing that money again.

This is one of the reasons I always buy my tickets from reputable sites, so that they are covered by their insurance should any thing go wrong and a refund would be easy to get. I have wanted tickets to concerts before that have sold out and been tempted by eBay but always decided against it. I have searched for Baseball Tickets For Sale a number of times for my Dad but ultimately always passed up on them.

These are tough times we are living it, it’s quite amazing to me how the entire world can go from what it was to what it is now in just a few short years — and if the news is correct things are only set to become worse before they start to get better.

I try not to worry about it, you’d drive yourself mad thinking about what might happen, but it is a little scary for every one!

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