Before You Impulse Buy… Read This
This post may contain affiliate links. All opinions are my own. Impulse buying is a surefire way to ruin your budget and remain broke, no matter how much you earn. And we can all succumb to it from time to time. That trip to the supermarket for milk where you ended up spending £25? Impulse…
How to Renovate Your Home Without Getting Into Unexpected Debt
This post may contain affiliate links. All opinions are my own. 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…
My ‘Why’
This post may contain affiliate links. All opinions are my own. When I first decided to pay off my entire debt in one year, it was intended to be a year of financial short-term pain for long-term gain. But five-and-a-half months in, and £8k down, and I have learned so much about myself and where…
My January Goals: Start As You Mean To Go On
This post may contain affiliate links. All opinions are my own. 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,…
Homemade Ready Meals: Chicken Pie
This post may contain affiliate links. All opinions are my own. I’d recently blogged about how I’ve cut the cost of our groceries in half (found here) 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…
Grocery Shopping: How our £400 budget became £200(ish!)
This post may contain affiliate links. All opinions are my own. 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…
How to Set a Basic Budget
This post may contain affiliate links. All opinions are my own. 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…
So… You Want to be Debt Free
This post may contain affiliate links. All opinions are my own. Great, me too! I started my journey to debt freedom on the 20th July 2017. I remember it clearly because I was shopping that morning for a wedding, frantically trying to find a dress that would suit the occasion. I ended up buying three…