Money Saving ideas for Freezer Food – Guest post from Reduced Grub

Freezer Food Last week there was a huge conversation on my Facebook page about bananas. Yes nearly 4000 people saw the thread of loads of readers giving their favourite ways of dealing with brown bananas. And many of the solution involved freezing them. I totally did not know you could freeze bananas! My blogger friend […]

The Christmas Debt Hangover Effect – A Tool to Avoid this Next Year

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The Christmas Debt Hangover Effect Scary facts time, the average family spent more than £800 on Christmas. Nearly a quarter, 23%, of us felt under pressure to spend more than we could afford (according to research from National Debtline).  How was it for you? Did you spend more than you had planned? Did you end […]

Compare The Market Simple and Convenient Insurance Tool

Compare The Market Simples Convenient Insurance Tool You may remember back in August of last year I had the privilege of spending an evening with a group of brilliant bloggers and the team from Compare the Market. The had built an exciting new insurance product where you can handily store all your insurance documents online. […]

8 ways to save energy this winter

Save Energy and Money I struggle with the cold, I really do. I am sat here working away in layers of clothes with a kitten curled up on my feet to keep them warm and the heating turned up higher than I should have it. Last week was so cold with the snow. I had […]

3 Tips to Beat the January Blues – Exercise, Food, Holiday

3 Tips to Beat the January Blues January is an interesting month and a really difficult month for people like me who suffer with SAD.  The hustle and bustle of the holidays is over and the start of a new year is upon us.  For many people the start of a new year brings a […]

5 Frugal Things Post 12 – Making Extra Money for January

5 Frugal Things Post 12 Its been a few weeks since I last posted my regular 5 Frugal Things. Christmas happened, New Year happened and 5 Frugal Things didn’t happen! So I have a few things stored up from the past few weeks to make 5 Frugal things post 12 a good one. A huge […]

Decluttering my house and making money with Zapper

Make Money with Zapper I have a confession, I have an issue with clutter. Here are a few pictures to demonstrate. The corner of our living room is constantly full of toys. I tried to arrange neatly in boxes, but it just seems to multiply!  Here how I’ve managed to declutter my house and make […]

Introducing Money Life Live – A day of financial resolutions

Financial Resolutions with Adam Piplica Here is a guest post from Adam Piplica of the website Magical Penny. Adam is a fellow money blogger who I have had the pleasure to work with on a few campaigns and have met in person several times. He has the interesting story of starting off as a personal […]

Pocket Money – Should you give it to your children?

Should you give pocket money to your children? Sometimes a debate gets going on my Facebook page which promotes a huge response with everyone keen to give their views and feedback. A few months back there was a discussion about pockets money so I wanted to share some of the discussion on here. Read on […]

Is Blogging for You? New Year New Challenge New You

New Year New Challenge New You I spent many years in a career than I never really enjoyed, working for big companies that never really cared. Every January was always a trauma returning to work was the most awful feeling ever. January, February and March would be horrid months dreading the next day. Now I […]

2017 Goals for Health, Wealth, Business and Personal Life

2017 Goals I never make new years resolutions. And I always hated the next year planning process in employed work. Alas now I run my own business I realise that you cant wing it the entire time! You need things to aim for, you need to be accountable for things and you need to make […]

My Grateful list and highlights of 2016. Mrs Mummypenny Review

My Grateful list I am getting a bit tired of my Facebook feed, newspapers and TV shows, all moaning about how awful the year has been. The public moan can be a drag and I would rather think about my grateful list, what I have achieved and received. It’s much better to celebrate the success […]