This is a contributed post. T&Cs for the website here. Emergency Planning Being ill isn’t part of anyone’s plan. It can be sneaky and insidious, and can change your whole life. Being a part of the medical profession, I can see how illness can cause a lot of stress, especially on personal finances. Without regular money …
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Cover photo from unsplash.com This is a contributed post. Full website T&Cs here. Motivation is difficult to find sometimes, especially if it involves going out in the cold for a run, when all you want to do is curl up on the sofa with a blanket! This post, written for thefemalemoneydoctor.com is all about finding …
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Cover image from pexels.com. This is a contributed post. Full website T&Cs can by found here. Debt sucks! So many of us carry this burden around all the time, and its physically draining isn’t it? The following post has been written for my website to give you a few tips on how to get out …
Its that time of year again! The new year can make us acutely aware of how things went for us the year before. It can be a time of positive or negative contemplation. Goal setting has become a favourite task of mine in December/January, and I love having an excuse to buy a new notebook …
This post is all about the importance of budgeting without sacrifice. I also have several posts related to this about setting a budget which you may find helpful if you want to read more! All Budget And No Play Makes For A Depressing Life Many people assume if they put strict budgets …
This post has a collaboration of interesting and helpful articles, including one on sorting out a consolidation loan, which can be handy for helping with debt repayments. I want to stress, this IS NOT a payday loan. I strongly dislike payday loans and think they should be banned. These are the sort that charge extremely …
Welcome to week 3 of the budget series! This is where you allocate money to different “slices” of your budget- ….charity….fun….essentials….saving….investing….education….emergency fund…. Post 1 on “charity and giving” is here. Post 2 on “fun money” here. The money-pie-method is here. Spending on the essentials So what am I talking about? I’m talking about …
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Week 1 Welcome to week 1 of the budgeting series. For the next 7 weeks, I will be discussing a different aspect to think about when it comes to budgeting. I hope that it will give you a new perspective on how you can start dividing up your money so that every bit of it …
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After looking at my bank account this morning…. …I found myself feeling nervous. I worked out that by the end of the month, I will have less than £1000 in my account, but nowhere near £0 or my overdraft. This stuck me as funny, because only a few years ago, I was REGULARLY in my …
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So last week I talked about assets and liabilities. If you didn’t catch that, go and read that first. Its important to know about these two things, because they are going to help you with the next part of the discovering the health of your finances equation – YOUR NET WORTH. If liabilities …
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