Imagine you were £1,000 better off every month. How would it feel to know how to make money that could change your life? Let me tell you: it’s amazing. You aren’t trapped by repayments and limitations that are part and parcel of all of that extra financial responsibility. So how to be £1,000 per month…
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Before You Impulse Buy… Read This
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 buys. Adding clothes to your online basket when you were just…
How to Renovate Your Home Without Getting Into Unexpected Debt
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…
My ‘Why’
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 I want to go with my life. About one month into…
My January Goals: Start As You Mean To Go On
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…
Want To Be Debt Free? Here’s My Tips
It’s January and if you’re thinking that what you want to achieve this year is ‘I want to be debt free’ then read on for my tips. Usually, after the Christmas blowout, everyone is super motivated to live their best life. But when reality hits, it’s so much more difficult to implement your goals into…
Homemade Ready Meals: Chicken Pie
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…
Grocery Shopping: How our £400 budget became £200(ish!)
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….
How to Set a Basic Budget
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…