Meal Planning On A Budget – The Best Money Saving Tool Around! You’ve probably seen and heard about meal planning previously and wondered what all the fuss was about. Well let me tell you – meal planning is one of the best tools you have to cut your grocery budget. When you have a meal […]
23 Reasons You Are Stuck Being Broke And How To Fix It
Being broke is hard. Very hard. As a teenage single mum I spent time on welfare benefits and hated the feeling of trying to eek out my pennies until my next payment. I always ran out of money long before I should have. I was struggling financially at a time when I didn’t really know […]
Live Cheaply – How You Can Win At Living On Next To Nothing
Strategies To Help You Learn How To Live Cheaply If you look hard enough there are ways to live cheaply or even to live on nothing. But realistically when you have no money it’s not about learning to living on fresh air alone, what you need to focus on is learning how to live cheaply. […]
99 Super Productive Things To Do (Without Spending Money)
Has your mind drawn a blank? You’re desperate to be doing SOMETHING and you want to write a list of super productive things to do, yet right now you have drawn a complete blank. What do you do with your time when you have vowed to quit spending money you don’t have? Are you supposed […]
11 Things Frugal People Just Do Not Do
Frugal people don’t do certain things for a reason. For the benefit that not doing brings to them. I absolutely love being frugal. I love the freedom that it has brought me. I have no mortgage, I have money in the bank and I am not shackled to a job until I am 68. How […]
53 Old Fashioned Frugal Living Tips For Your Modern Life
I have no doubt you have been told before that “in the olden days” people had to make do and do without. And if it was your thrifty Grandma talking I bet she talked about old fashioned frugal living, the way it had to be. It had to be because in those days you didn’t […]
My Top 10 Ideas For The Best Frugal Life
Do you ever get to the point where you do things on autopilot, without thinking? That’s me and frugal life and I love it. I’ve been frugal for such a long time that the things I do seem totally normal to me. What I often forget is that they are not always normal to other […]
Frugal Living For Beginners: How To Get Started
Being a beginner at anything new can seem daunting, even simple frugal living for beginners will seem hard and possibly very different from what you are used to. I say ‘seem hard’ because it’s not really, not once you know how and that is exactly what you and I are talking about. How you can […]
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 […]
12 Things You Should Never Pay For
Today I have something a little different for you. Great advice about how to make the most of your money from Mrs Five Senses of Living who blogs over at fivesensesofliving.com. She’s an adventurer who is living life through the five senses while staying money conscious. She provides tips and tricks about investing, budgeting, saving money while […]