When I started saving for the first time in my life (*cough* – at the age of 30), it felt like an impossible task. It always used to astound me how people could buy things with cash because they had savings. How did they make them? Surely all their money was …
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So you’ve decided that you want to get your money-sorted this year? Yay!! Go you!! But do you have what it takes to ACTUALLY follow through on this? If you’re anything like me, you’ve been overspending for a long time. A coffee here, a takeaway there, an unplanned holiday or purchase. …
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It’s the end of 2018, and during this festive week of partying, I thought I’d take a few moments to reflect on 2018 and look to see if I had achieved the goals I had set for myself this time last year. Goal setting is a double-edge sword. There is a …
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I am very much an independent woman, and extremely proud of it, but I think being so fiercely independent sometimes gets in the way of one simple thing – asking for help from other people. It may seem silly, but asking for help is actually a pretty brave thing to do. …
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So as some of you may know, I sold my London flat recently. I’ll warn you, the story of this flat is a bitter-sweet one and I have been itching to write this post but wanted to wait until I had officially put it behind me. Part-buy, part-rent properties can seem …
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This is week number 2 of the budget series…. See week 1 here if you missed it! Today I want to talk about one of the most important things you should allocate some money to in your budget…… YOUR FUN FUND! We often neglect our own fun don’t we? I find …
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It had to happen – a post on C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S….. I’m sorry! This pains me too, as it still feels like we’ve only just come out of the summer holidays, but unfortunately it does need to be thought about now we’re in November. For many years I neglected to save for Christmas, …
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In this budgeting series, I have been highlighting a different “slice” of the “money-pie” – a system that one of my followers coined for me. It has a number of other names – money-pots, money-buckets, but whatever you call it, its a similar idea. It is the principle of slicing you …
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