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This post is sponsored. Last Christmas, we went to Berlin, we were making huge debt overpayments to as part of our goal to pay off £16k in a year and we also had the expense of the big day itself. To say our budget was tight was the understatement of the year! Even though Christmas…

A little over one year ago, our grocery bill was HUGE. We easily spent £500 per month on food, including takeaways. To add insult to injury, our diets were poor, our bad planning meant we spent a lot of time shopping, and we wasted a lot of food. However, all of that changed when we…

There is nothing quite like the feeling of writing a Christmas 2018 budget blog post in the middle of August! But right now, we have 132 days to Christmas, which means 19 paydays if you’re paid weekly, and about five if you’re paid monthly, which is terrifying! The average cost of Christmas for a UK…

Self-care is one of the best time investments you can make. In our consumer-driven world, we tend to mistake acquiring things for looking after ourselves, neglecting our well-being in the process. Self-care is a relatively new phrase based on a much older concept, because in the world we live in that is full of distractions,…

Since starting to pay off our debt, I have worked on cutting the cost of our groceries gradually, which has really helped us to free up some money extra debt repayments. We wanted to cut down on the cost of groceries without going down the route of living off processed food, so it was key…

Once upon a time, in my mid- twenties, I was a writer. I spent my days writing a book that I’d developed during uni, and I wrote for a comedy blog. To pay the rent, I worked nights in a restaurant. When my partner lost his job, I stopped writing temporarily and started working full…