Category: Saving Money

5 steps to simple meal planning
Food

5 steps to simple meal planning

There’s a good reason why simple meal planning is always listed as a way to rein in your expenditure – especially when tightening up your budget to pay off debts. The reason is that IT WORKS.   Planning out your meals means that you stick to a pre-prepared shopping list, and you don’t pick up things that add to your shopping bill and end up going to waste. You can take meal planning however far

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Saving Money

Spend, Send & Save With The Curve App

These days different banks and credit cards offer different perks, resulting in many of us having more than one bank account and maybe even more than one credit card. Wouldn’t it be amazing if you can combine them all into just one card? I’ve teamed up with the Curve app to tell you exactly how you can do just that. Introducing the Curve Card The Curve Card takes all of your bank and credit cards

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How to pay off debt with an irregular income-2
Budgeting

How to pay off debt with an irregular income

Emma at My Debt Diary explains how to pay off debt with an irregular income and gives us real active tips on how to go about it.  Paying off debt is a challenging task for anyone to face. When you don’t know how much money you’re going to earn next month it can become unbelievably daunting. How will you ever clear your debt mountain if you can’t even track your numbers? Here is some guidance

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Are you missing out on free food?
Food

Are you missing out on free food?

Are you missing out on free food? Weekly grocery shopping and eating out can cost an absolute fortune, the average UK family spends roughly more than £53 on their grocery shopping each week which comes out at nearly £3,000 a year. That £3,000 doesn’t even include treats like takeaways and dining out- so it’s no wonder a lot of families are looking for new ways to reduce their food bill. If you’re looking to reduce

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Saving Money

How to only pay the price you want to pay

Isn’t it great to get a bargain? I love to shop in the sales, clearance racks or yellow sticker shelves so that I get to purchase items for the prices that I want to pay. This leaves me more money in my pocket to spend on other things. Wouldn’t it be great if you could set the price you want to pay for an item and then be notified when a sale or promotion brings

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The Easiest Way to Become Wealthy
Budgeting

The Easiest Way to Become Wealthy

Perry from Stupid is the Norm explains how a different mindset can make you wealthy.  The occupations of my friend group included the CEO of a global pharmaceutical plant, Director of a large marketing company, an anesthetist, a Quantity Surveyor and others. All professional, highly qualified guys. At age 55, the first of us able to retire was a guy who worked in a bank. He’d worked for the bank since leaving school, diligently working

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Saving Money

Get a butler to help you with your bills

Do you want to save time and money managing bills? We could all do with some help managing our household, including the bills that come with it. However, not many of us can afford the luxury of a full-time butler who is at our beck and call to carry out the household tasks we just don’t fancy doing. We can dream though! I can’t give you access to a free butler, but I can tell

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6 Reusable items to save cash and help the environment
Saving Money

6 Reusable items to save cash and help the environment

Bamigo boxers Many people tuned in to watch Blue Planet II last year, and if you watched it too, you will know that it carried a message to us all- that we need to start cutting down on our single use plastic consumption. It’s something that is devastating our planet, but luckily, there are so many alternatives, and each one of us can do something to help, including making our home more eco-friendly. By cutting

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