Do you have more month than money? Need a money savings plan? Saving money can be tough, when what you actually want is an easy way to save money. We are surrounded by adverts, social media and people who are all encouraging us to part with our cash. Indeed the encouragement is spend more than […]
5 frugal tips to save money on long car journeys
Save money on your road trips, have more money to spend when you arrive. I don’t know about you but I used to dread long car journeys. It wasn’t just the boredom of mile after mile of motorway or hour after hour in heavy traffic. It was the money we would spend just getting from […]
15 things we gladly gave up to become mortgage free
Aiming to become mortgage free? Cutting these 15 expenses will help you shave years off your mortgage A mortgage is usually the biggest financial debt you’ll ever have. When you buy your first house you are full of excitement and dreams about making that house your perfect home. A year or two down the line […]
How to choose the best savings account for your money
Having started saving you want to put it to work gaining interest but where’s best? You have savings! So you have worked out your budget and intend to save something every month but where do you put it? What is the best savings account for your money? It’s not going to be saved if you leave it […]
May Money Focus – the results and a saga!
At the beginning of May I decided I really needed to get back to basics and start sweating the small stuff again. I needed a money focus month to get myself back on track to scrutinise my spending habits and see where I was going wrong. Its all very well having a goal of early retirement but […]
Investments – the story of my investing and indecisiveness
In which I finally share some of my investing story. I know I am a personal finance blogger but I am yet to tell you about our finances and how we have saved nearly enough to retire early! However I recently took part in The Money Whisperers series – Investing, a woman’s perspective – and […]
May Money Focus – why I am sweating the small stuff
Has your money focus gone a little soft round the edges? Here’s why I am re-focusing on my spending habits I confessed in a recent blog post that I am not a financial wizard, indeed I shared with you 13 financial mistakes that I have made. I usually seem to be better at sweating the small […]
13 Financial mistakes I have made and how you can learn from them
We’ve all made financial mistakes but I’ve made some real crackers, find out what not to do! If you’ve read some of my posts you’ll know that Mr2p and I are on the cusp of having enough to retire early. Given that we will be retiring in our early 50’s you would be forgiven for thinking I […]
Why you should create your own work uniform – saving you time and money
Creating your own work uniform saves you time and money When I was younger I hated the idea of having to wear a uniform. To earn extra money I worked part time in a supermarket on top of my day job before I became a teenage mum. Their uniform at the time was a really drab […]
8 excellent reasons why you should not opt out of your Workplace Pension
You can choose to opt out of your workplace pension but are you going to? If you are working and earn more than £10,000 a year then your employer must enrol you in their Workplace Pension. You might think you are too young or have too many bills to pay to think about pensions right […]