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How to Renovate Your Home Without Getting Into Unexpected Debt

July 5, 2018

Behind the cost of our home itself, home renovation costs have been our biggest purchase of the past decade. We have spent £25,000 renovating our home since we moved in, which has added an average of around £8.5k to our annual expenses since moving in. Home ownership doesn’t come cheap. We bought a fixer-upper with…

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Get Motivated, And The Rest Falls Into Place!

January 16, 2018

The wind is blustery, the mornings are dark and snow is on the horizon. January is in full swing, and the credit card bills are hitting your postbox. Seriously, there is no emoji for this level of depression. I often think it’s funny that January is the month in which most of us set our…

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My January Goals: Start As You Mean To Go On

January 3, 2018

  Oh January, how I hate you and love you in equal measures. You are the month that houses the Christmas hangover, in all senses of the word; overindulgence, money and fun. But you are also the month that starts off a new year, that seems so full of possibilities and promise. As a planning…

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Homemade Ready Meals: Chicken Pie

November 22, 2017

I’d recently blogged about how I’ve cut the cost of our groceries in half which was mostly thanks to batch cooking. I designate one weeknight per week to batch cook one large dish which is then separated into portions and frozen, ready to be reheated on busy weeknights- hooray for home-made ready meals! My favourite…

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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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How to Set a Basic Budget

November 12, 2017

When it comes to debt, budgets are life. Before tackling my debt, while good with setting my budget, I wasn’t so great at sticking to it, largely due to temptation- but that’s a post for another day. If debt freedom is your goal, it is important to set a budget, made as simple and realistic…

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Hi, I’m Grainne, the face behind WannaBe DebtFree. Click my pic to learn how I paid off £16,000 of debt in one year.

Hi, I’m Grainne, the face behind WannaBe DebtFree. Click my pic to learn how I paid off £16,000 of debt in one year.

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