A little rest and a lot of changes.
The last time I sat down and typed out a blog was October 2019. I was in need of a rest from pretty much everything. And what a lot of changes since then…
Category: Finances and Legal
The Holiday Club
It is the summer holidays if you hadn’t noticed and it is the season of the Holiday Club. We’re three weeks in and it’s that time where everyone has used up their leave or is spreading it out, and have enlisted The Holiday Club to […]
The Perfect Juggler’s Meal Plan – w/c 9 July
In order to save money and to eat better throughout the week, I’m getting into the habit of making a weekly meal plan. Yes, snooze, I know. But every time I don’t do it my brain goes to mush. My organisation goes out the window […]
The 5 pros and cons of working from home
Working from home is sometimes seen as the holy grail for working mums. Don’t get me wrong, there are definitely massive pluses. However, I’ve found, over the couple of months that there are a few negatives too. So I have jotted down the top 5 […]
Welcome back and happy new year
So this is my belated new year’s post and my ‘where the hell have I been’ post and I shall try and do this all in under 500 words so as not to bore you silly. My last post was early November, before work got […]
How I’m going to make Christmas shopping fit my budget this year
WARNING: There is mention of the C word in this post. If you’re the sort of person that has Christmas perfectly planned-out, with presents bought months in advance, wrapping done and everything neatly stored away in readiness for the big day then great! Good […]
The budget is broken
Yesterday evening you would’ve found me counting out my coppers at the Sainsbury’s self checkout because I am absolutely, 100%, completely, utterly skint. School summer holidays have been a complete eye opener this year and, despite attempting to budget for it and budgeting well for Charlotte’s birthday […]
The Perfect Juggler’s Guide to Tax Credits
Whilst the sun has been shining outside I am stuck at my computer, trying to get my head around the annual conundrum that is tax credits. The groan heard around the country when that A4 envelope thuds through the letter box must be audible […]
Sayonara 2016, welcome 2017.
Happy new year everyone. I hope you had a good one last night, whatever that may mean. Despite being childfree, I spent the evening at my best friends house and drank absolutely nothing. I got back home just as Big Ben chimed on the car […]
The cost of coeliac disease
There were lots of things I was completely ignorant to when it came to coeliac disease. My best friend has been diagnosed with it for about 10 years now but I still had no idea about the cross-contamination side of things until Charlotte was diagnosed. […]