Category: Saving Money

How to Teach Your Child Financial Literacy

Financial literacy is the ability to understand and practise financial skills such as budgeting, taxation, investing and financial management. Financial literacy is a key part of having a healthy relationship with money, which is why it’s one of the main things you should teach your child. Unfortunately, kids don’t get a lot of experience with dealing with money during their time at school, so if you want them to have strong financial skills when they’re

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Saving Money

Save money with jobs for the winter

Winter is on the way. Winters are pretty dark and cold anywhere, without even adding in the fact that the cost of living crisis is going to make it even worse. The price of bills is increasing more than we could ever have imagined and there will be hard decisions to be made by everyone. We are all on the lookout for things that we can do to save some money and it is going

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Saving Money

4 Situations Where Loans Can Actually Help You Save Money

We take out loans for several reasons like medical emergencies, education, home relocation and renovation, big purchases, and even just for spare money to use at the ready.  While we mainly use it for financing, taking out a loan can also help us put money aside for our future. You read that right. Borrowing money helps you save money, despite playing a key role in increasing your monthly costs. How? Check these four situations where

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Food

How to start batch cooking on a budget

A lot of the money we earn often goes on food. Eating is important. It helps our kids to grow, it nourishes our minds and it impacts our moods. However, prices are on the increase and as other costs rise, you might be looking at slashing the price that you pay for your food. How can you save money whilst still eating decent food? Let’s have a look at batch cooking on a budget to

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Saving Money

Simple & affordable pregnancy gift basket ideas

Do you know someone who is expecting a baby? Maybe it’s a family member or a closer friend? If you are thinking about throwing them a baby shower, you probably want to consider putting together a pregnancy gift basket too. Full of little things that they can use to make Mum-life that little bit easier. In this post, we’re going to look at some simple and affordable ideas that you can include in your pregnancy

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Saving Money

Save money with the Lidl app

With lots of us looking for ways to lower the amount of money we spend on our supermarket shopping, it is time to look at the Lidl app. The budget store is one of the cheapest available and if you have one nearby you can save money by switching to shopping there. On the Lidl app you will find some great offers and much more! Let’s load up the app and see what it’s all

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What to buy at Poundland

It is no secret that I love a bargain, and pound shops can offer great value for money. Whilst some people think they are filled with tat, there are always some great bargains to be had. Let’s take a look at what to buy at Poundland, as well as some extra tips to help you save even more. Batteries Pound stores used to be notorious for selling batteries that wouldn’t last, however these days you

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Saving Money

How to save money on your home insurance auto renewal

Home insurance is important. It’s something we all need and for many of us is part and parcel of the conditions of our mortgages. What would you do is your home set on fire and burned down? How would you rebuild without insurance? What if someone broke into your house and stole your belongings? Home and contents insurance is highly advisable however many of us are paying more than we need to for our policies.

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