Living the good life on a budget.
This post comes after a couple of weeks of thinking about my own finances. About how the confidence I feel about using money doesn’t extend to other areas of my life. Financial knowledge is one thing, but everything else can seem confusing. The basis of this follows the post about emotional spending, which has…
To be honest, this topic is very personal to me and something I have been struggling with for some months now. I’ve got another post around a different topic linked to emotional spending, but I thought I’d look at this first. Emotional spending is a real danger area for a lot of people. But,…
I have been thinking more and more about our impact on the environment and how eco-friendly we are. About how we are great at recycling but perhaps there should be less to recycle in the first place. Following all of the things in the news recently about the amount of plastic in our oceans and…
In preparation for our building work (which starts today, eek!) we have been doing some decluttering. For a family of four who I thought didn’t buy very much, we have a lot of stuff. Things that we haven’t looked at in years. Paper work that I don’t know why we’ve kept for so long. Lots…
There isn’t one person in the world who doesn’t want to be able to save, or to have more money. The majority of adults wish they could save more, have a better pension or be able to take the family on that holiday they’ve always dreamed of. Sometimes, just taking that first step is the…
I don’t know about anyone else, but as the winter months start to approach, and the holiday season is upon us, I find that money seems to disappear more than normal. I don’t know if it’s because the colder weather makes me want to spend more, or I take my eye off the ball a…
