Monday Money #17 Free Children’s Activities at John Lewis
Week five of the summer holiday has been super busy, but I think I managed to find the balance this week with keeping the boys entertained as well as keeping on top of the Mrs Mummypenny workload. Free Children’s Activities in John Lewis Saturday saw Dylan go off to Cambridge for the day for a […]
Sunny Bank Holiday Aldi Cocktails and Boozy Poptails
Bank Holiday Aldi Cocktails and Boozy Poptails It’s been a beautiful few days in the UK, yesterday it hit 26 degrees in my garden, and this bank holiday weekend is looking like it is going to stay sunny. A perfect way to cool yourself down is by making some boozy ice lollies and cocktails. In […]
Making Money with Swagbucks
There are many websites that claim to help you to make money and Swagbucks is one that has been around for a long time. Swagbucks is huge in America and a few years ago arrived in the UK. In fact, I met one of the directors a couple of years ago at the annual UK […]
Quick tips for saving money on phone contracts
Quick tips for saving money on phone contracts I have a really good guest post here from the guys at Fonehouse. Some brilliant tips here on how to save lots of money with your mobile phone contract. The average spend on mobile contracts in the UK is £45.60 per month. That’s a whopping £547.20 per […]
Eleven great ways to invest money
I have a guest post from Dan of the Canadian Website www.stocktrades.ca. I thought it would be an interesting concept to get a guest post from across the pond on Dans ideas on how to invest money. And that investment is to come with little to no risk with returns! Lets see what he suggests. […]
The Great Connection Guarantee from TalkTalk and my switching experience
The Great Connection Guarantee from TalkTalk A message that I will constantly talk about on Mrs Mummypenny is the importance of switching your regular household monthly bills. All your monthly bills are (normally) on 12 to 18-month contracts and you will sign up to a great deal as a new customer. When that deal ends […]
Debt Repayment is hard! I set an Unachievable Goal
Debt Repayment is hard! Today I want to talk about the reality of debt repayment. Not the advice type post that if you searched you could find hundreds, thousands of versions of the same post, taking debt snowballs and advice on how to repay that debt. No. This post is about the feelings and thoughts […]
Monday Money #16 – A Day Out in London & Trampoline fun
Monday Money is back after missing a week last Monday. We got back from our holiday on Monday and I have a brilliant post planned all about my holiday but not quite Monday Money appropriate. And the summer holiday have taken over making it not as easy to get work done every day! We are […]
Overseas Family Holidays Don’t Have To Be Exorbitant With These Shrewd Tips
For many families, heading overseas for a break can seem like a luxury that is well out of their budget limit, but this doesn’t have to be the case. In fact, if you are savvy with your vacation choices, you can take your entire brood overseas without having to eat beans on toast for the […]
What does success look like to you?
This thought struck me recently. I was asked to vote for some awards and one of the categories was success of the year. But it got me thinking..success is subjective, success to me is so different to you reading this post or to ay judge of an awards show. So I thought I would […]
How do Car Boot Sales Really Work?
How do Car Boot Sales Really Work? I have a month each year with free weekends and no football commitments. June is the month and on a whim Josh and I decided to go do a car boot sale. It was literally on a whim, we decided to do it on a Sunday and packed […]
Getting my First Tattoo at Aged 41 – Is a Tattoo Painful?
Back in 2016 I wrote a rather fabulous bucket list of 40 things I wanted to do before 40. Number 35 on the list was to get a tattoo done. I achieved this in July 2018, aged 41, but not far off. I am using my bucket list now to to tick off things as […]