Recently I have been thinking about retirement, not that I work now anyway, but the possibility of having problems in the future. The cost of living is always on the increase and I fear that if I did go back…
March was a great month because we went on holiday up to Northumberland so of course, we spent a little bit more especially on groceries. Now we also continued with our goal to get our house as finished as we…
It has finally happened. For a long time, I had been thinking about moving my blog from Blogger over to WordPress (self-hosted) and I finally took the plunge. My blog is my hobby and is something I enjoy doing, otherwise,…
February has been an okay month but I do still think we can get the expense total down quite a bit. This month seems to be such a busy one each year due to how many birthdays fall in it…
Martha has now turned 2 years old and with her being so close in age with Mabel, buying toys for her birthday has been very difficult. It seemed the things that I did want to get her, we either had…
I am someone who is very nosey and I love seeing how much other families spend on bills and how much they may have left over if anything at all. I thought I would share with you each month what…
I really love being able to save money each week by just doing my regular shopping. Previously I have used coupons and vouchers that I need to cut out and take with me to the shop to be scanned but…
I don’t know what it is but I seem to get really excited about staying on top of our finances and working out new ways in which we can save money. As it is January I thought this was the…
I just about managed to do a couple of small surveys on iPoll this week to get me to the £25 limit to cash out, plus I cashed out at Mintvine and received some more money from that. iPoll = £0.75…
Here are all the presents we have got for Martha for Christmas along with prices and the total. We have been buying items since January in order to save as much money as we can, and you know what, I…
This year I have been buying presents since the January Sale as a way to try and save money and get prepared for Christmas early. This has worked out so well in getting everything sorted and bought for the girls,…
