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Do you want to know what will save you thousands of pound (dollars) over the next year? Ah, you may be thinking, here is this old trick. She crests our interest and immediately hits us with the same old cr*p. You know the kind I mean. All this stuff…
Number blindness is a real affliction. It is not about being lazy learning your maths and it can seriously affect your personal finances. A tiny number of people can look at a column of figures and just know what it adds up to. More people, perhaps 1 in 20, suffer…
Editor’s note: Today, we have a guest post from Zoe Morrison: an eco-friendly money-saving blogger who writes at www.ecothriftyliving.com. Zoe writes about living an affordable lifestyle, even thrifty, and is not damaging to the environment. We found a shared interest in finding ways to avoid food waste so I…
When I was a little girl I didn’t call this chicken fricassee; this was my mother and her friends when they shared cooking tips. I called it ‘white chicken’. My son used to call it ‘baby stew’; now he simply tells me that he eats it not because he enjoys…
Last night, our Mexican visitor made Spanish omelette for us. Or to use its proper name ‘tortilla de patatas’. “Maria, I can’t really cook. I like cleaning more.” This is what she told me when I said that we like people staying in our house to be part of the…
It is Saturday and I’m feeling a bit down. Having had very bad backache for close to two weeks now doesn’t help. Judging by my reaction to pain now, I suspect I’ll be one of these grumpy, self-obsessed old women one day. Except if I have the sense to feel…
I promised, didn’t I? I promised that every week I’ll try one recipe from my mum’s old cook book and tell you about it. Not least because most of these recipes are really examples of our ‘eat for less’ philosophy. They are: Inexpensive; Delicious; Nutritious; and (mostly) Fast to prepare….
Do you remember my mum’s old cook book? Well, I’ve decided that I’ll try one recipe from it every week. And will tell you about it. You see, I reckon that there isn’t more frugal than people in less wealthy countries (and Bulgaria after WWII fits the bill perfectly). Tasty…
Do you know what the only number I need to be able to tell you whether you are financial failure or prosperity superstar is? No, I don’t want to know how much you earn: I know too many people who earn over £100,000 and have twice as much consumer debt….
Vegetarian our household is not; and it’s very unlikely to be. This dish – oven baked tuna is a suffered compromise between a protein eating enthusiastic teen (my youngest son) and a reformed health eating obsessive (me). I used to be vegetarian. I was strict with it for about five…
You are either already thinking that this sounds delicious and you’d tried it this coming weekend or that it is absolutely ‘yak’ and reading further is a nausea inducing waste of time. If you belong to the former camp please go on reading; if you belong to the latter…
‘Change is the only constant in this world”! I know that is a favorite phrase with many and they often keep on touting it. Unfortunately, these are the same folks who never want to change their priorities and philosophy despite getting no expected benefits from their current financial strategy. Both…