This is a collaborative post You work hard to achieve your financial goals, clock in a lot of working hours to provide for your family and to grow your retirement money but is it enough to protect you and your family? Being a parent, you are the family’s main income earner and may not have …
This is a collaborative post Got your eye on a dream holiday? Perhaps you’re saving for a house? Or maybe you just want a little extra spending money so you can treat the kids and even yourself? Whatever your dreams might be, I think it’s safe to say that most of us would like to …
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This is a collaborative post I am absolutely not going to mention the word, I am still revelling in the last days of summer here. But I must admit that it is lurking on the horizon, that event in December that I am going to need to save a few pennies for. I tend to …
This is a collaborative post We all love having something to look forward to. It’s what gets us through the working week, and what the kids love to get excited about! And although the summer break is already drawing to a close (where did the six weeks go!?) it’s the perfect opportunity to plan ahead …
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This is a collaborative post What would be on your dream wish list? What are those luxuries that you have always had your eye on but not quite splashed out on yet? We all have these dream wish lists, don’t we? It’s fun to think about all of those treats that we would love to …
This is advertorial content I wrote a couple of months ago about the benefits of giving children pocket money and since then, the kids have really been coming on leaps and bounds with it. It’s as though having their own money has given them both a better sense of responsibility and a greater understanding of …
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I don’t know about you, but my kids have got a lot of ‘stuff’. More ‘stuff’ than they know what to do with, and more ‘stuff’ than even sees the light of day. Which is why this year for Christmas, I’ll be creating a Family Adventures Jar. It’s a present that will give them treats …
You work darned hard for your money. You stay behind late, you put in overtime, you shoulder extra responsibilities because that’s just the sort of person you are. Yet, for all your efforts it never seems as if there’s enough cash in the household. There’s no doubt about it, as living costs climb ever higher …
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This is a collaborative post Many families in the UK are having to decide between heating their homes or making a meal. This shocking statistic has been revealed in a survey by prepaid MasterCard experts, icount. Higher heating and energy bills during the winter period has resulted in many of the UK’s population waiting to …
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I have been challenged by Scottish Friendly to take part in their Money Saving Diary Challenge, and it’s definitely one for me. As you may have read here recently, we have just booked a holiday to Walt Disney World next summer so we are all about saving at the moment! The idea behind the challenge …
It can be tempting to go down to the dump with your unwanted furniture, but giving it a new home could be an easy way to prevent throwing it away and even make some extra cash. The trend of upcycling furniture is still going strong, so even if the condition isn’t the best it could …
Now that the fun of Christmas is becoming a distant memory, the treat that we have to look forward to this month is the credit card bill! I don’t know about you, but we tend to put a little away each month throughout the year towards Christmas, though we do then use the credit card …
It’s amazing how the importance of a car really does set in when you have a family. Self-indulgence goes completely out the window more often than not, and it all becomes about practicality and cost efficiency. The latter is particularly important given how expensive cars are to run. Often in day-to- day life we only …
We have a goal. A big savings goal, and we are squirrelling away funds here and there to help with it. We have the smaller aims, as we always have a Christmas savings account running, and then we have the savings for the home projects that pop up throughout the year and any short breaks …
My children are a long way off managing their own money. They have got both savings accounts and long-term savings plans, that were set up for each of them within a couple of weeks of their births. I’m pleased we’ve sorted those for them, as by starting really early, small sums can add up to …
The title of this post has two of my favourite things in it – ‘free’ and ‘pizza’! As regular readers will know, I do like to make our money work hard for us here, so I am always on the lookout for fresh offers and deals that we can enjoy that do this for us. In addition …
