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How To Save Money on Clothes Forever…And Make Money in the Process!

November 14, 2018

Back when I was in £16,000 of personal debt, I was a closeted shopping addict who loved to spend away the blues. My wardrobe was stuffed with clothes, bags and shoes, yet I felt like I wore the same few items on rotation, and I hated getting dressed in the mornings because piecing together an…

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How To Cut the Cost of Your Christmas List

November 13, 2018

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…

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Five Ways To Save Money on Groceries

September 19, 2018

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…

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Five Swaps That Can Pay for Christmas 2018

August 15, 2018

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…

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DM of the Week: How Can I Do Self-Care on a Budget?

June 27, 2018

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,…

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My Grocery Shopping: From £76 to £29.50

February 27, 2018

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…

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Buy Less, Live More

January 31, 2018

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…

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Money Making and Money Saving Apps- A Beginner’s Guide

January 24, 2018

Recently I’ve started becoming quite savvy with my grocery shopping, which has led to me significantly cutting the amount I spend. Today for example, I placed my grocery order for the week with Sainsbury’s; initial cost was £55.10 (which is quite good for us anyway), with offers and promotions, it reduced to £43.50. With vouchers…

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Grocery Shopping: How our £400 budget became £200(ish!)

November 15, 2017

My partner and I don’t like to eat; we love to eat. Eating is our passion. Eating, not even exaggerating, is central to our relationship. We look forward to coming home every night to a proper dinner, we’ve swapped our Saturday night ‘where to’ to ‘what’s cooking’ and trips abroad are meticulously planned around TripAdvisor restaurant reviews….

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