How to Set Goals – And Achieve Them
Goals are Awesome – Goals are the Key to Success Goals are awesome. They really are. Goals help you visualise the future. Goals help you get moving towards something. Goals keep you from being at a standstill, they stop you…
There’s Value – Liebster Award Nomination
MANY THANKS! Joe at Budget Breakaway kindly nominated me for a Liebster Award, which I accept! The rules of accepting are: 1. Display the Liebster Award logo on your blog (done!) 2. Link back to the person who has nominated…
Emotions and Money
Kapitalust, another PF/investing blog I follow, very recently wrote about something which I have been thinking about for the past few weeks – emotions vs. money. Recent Events Well, let me tell you what happened to me recently. I had…
Meat on the Bone is GOO-UH-OOD
Sorry to the vegans and vegetarians, you may want to skip this post… I am an omnivore, but I love my chicken, as you may have noticed, and I also love a bit of red meat. Who could turn down…
Downshift Trials – Part 1
In order to save money and squeeze my budget, I’ve downshifted quite a lot of different grocery and household items. What is downshifting? Well, it’s where you find an alternative product that costs less. For example toothpaste. You could go…
Why a Whole Chicken is Brilliant Value
If you’re a meat-eater, sometimes it can really send your grocery bill sky high. Luckily, there are some ways to get fantastic value for money when shopping for meat, in particular, chicken. Chicken is an all-round great meat. Just 100g…
Follow Me on Bloglovin’
Follow my blog with Bloglovin I recently re-discovered Bloglovin’ – it makes it easier to keep track of the other blogs I follow, e.g. those that are on my blogroll to the bottom right of this site. Check it out….
August Share Purchase – Carillion
Update 26.08.14: My monthly order went through, eventually, getting me another 29 shares, bringing my total to 136. This is great, because I now have reduced my overall cost basis (the shares were about 6% cheaper). This means I am…
Gas Bill – OMG!
OMG! WTF! and all that sort of thing. Is it just me, or have gas bills gone up LOADS in the last few years? I was just looking at our utility provider, as I do every month when I do…
Control Your Grocery Budget
I always seem to go over on my grocery budget, but reading about fellow blogger’s decision to go back to a cash system reminded me that I never went over in the days I ran cash! So… we have also…
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