Hypnotherapy for Weight loss – It worked and I maintained the weight loss
Hypnotherapy for Weight loss The first 6 months of 2015 were a tad dramatic for me. I was hating my job and it was really getting me down. I was 3 stone overweight which made me continually unhappy. But sparks of positivity started to shine through. I could take redundancy to leave that said hated […]
5 Frugal Things Post 15 – Ending January with Positivity
5 Frugal Things Post 15 – Ending January with Positivity Since last Friday I have started a new series of posts on Instagram. Every day I am writing about three positive things that have happened that day, with a picture of 1 or 2 of them. It’s having a wonderful effect on each day […]
How we used Home Improvements to add value to our house
Home Improvements and making money Back in 2013 we undertook a huge home improvement project. We added an extra 2 metres onto the left hand side of our house. This meant we created a huge open plan kitchen, added a utility room and a downstairs shower room. Upstairs we added an extra bedroom and made […]
Great Value Gin and Fizz at Aldi – Anyone for a cocktail?
Great Value Gin and Fizz at Aldi – Anyone for a cocktail? I know so many people who have done dry January. How have you done? Did you manage it and do you feel any better for it? I did a dry 2 whole month last June & July and since then have been drinking […]
How to Declutter your House and Make Money with Emma Drew
How to declutter your house and make money I have been reading Emma Drew’s blog (previously known as From Aldi to Harrods) for nearly 2 years. She was one of the first money bloggers I read and I have learnt so much from her about money making techniques for my blog and life in general. […]
5 Frugal Things post 14 – No Spend January continues
5 Frugal Things Post 14 My frugal and low spending month continues with another good week. After the excesses of December where we overspent by around £800 we really needed to cut back in January. We have shopped frugally, ate maybe only 3 takeaways and done no sale shopping. The social life has taken a […]
Life Chances for Young Carers are under threat – Young Carers Awareness Day
Life Chances for Young Carers are under threat There are some really worrying statistics being released today about young carers. More than half (53%) of the young adult carers surveyed were having problems coping with school work and nearly 60% say they are struggling to meet deadlines. A third said they have to skip school […]
Skills of a Blogger – Week 2 of Content from Book
Skills of a blogger Last week Emma kicked off a series of blog posts we are writing each week sharing content from our book. We are really passionate about sharing our knowledge with other bloggers, helping answer all those questions going through peoples minds and that we see being posting in Facebook groups every day. […]
Savings Accounts for Children – My plan for saving for my children
Savings Accounts for Children I have a confession to make, as Dave Grohl sang…my boys do not have savings accounts. There you go I have said it out loud, or rather written it on the internet for the world to see. I have a story of course. When they were little I did so well! […]
Top Tips to Prepare financially for a Mortgage Application
Follow these Top Tip to Prepare yourself financially for a Mortgage Application The process of applying for a mortgage can be daunting, but if you approach it with knowledge about your current financial situation and are fully prepared for what they will be looking for then it will be much more likely that your application […]
Frugal Things Post 13 – A cold and quiet chilled week
5 Frugal Things Post 13 How cold has it been this week? I have struggled with it and have not really wanted to go out this week. I’ve done the school run obviously but not a lot else. I have stayed at home in the warm, plugging away at the website. This of course means […]
PiggyPot – A savings app to help you reach goals
PiggyPot savings app to help you reach goals In the past I have been ever so guilty of wanting things right now. I would buy now and pay afterwards. This has been done using various methods of payment that we are all very familiar with such as interest free repayment loans (furniture), 0% credit cards […]