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‘Here she goes again.’ – I hear you say. Crooning about a good credit score and how to get it. You are right I’m on the go again. After all, I did promise you a series of articles on investing. Let me tell you, investing thirty minutes in checking…
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…
Do you believe that you have mastered the way to control your money? So did I, so did I. After turning around our financial destiny so dramatically, I developed this sense of personal finance invincibility. You know the one, surely. This is the feeling when you have the fundamental…
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…
You may think that John and I are an ordinary couple, going around our everyday endeavours and trying to live life as best as we can. You’d be wrong: we have been a quasi-bank – or the bank of mum and dad – for well over a decade now. You…
Have you been keeping up with the Joneses while desperately trying not to? Have you been looking at the neighbour’s car and wishing it was in your drive? Have you been looking at the great suit your colleague is wearing and wishing it was on your back? After that…
Range Rover Evoque is a thing of beauty! Let’s just say that this morning, when I saw ours just delivered in our drive, I couldn’t even make a sound – I just gazed at it with the awe reserved for the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles…
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….