When you have a family, life becomes a lot more expensive. Whether you’ve got two children or eight, it can often be a struggle to make ends meet each month. If you’re currently finding it hard to make your money stretch as far as you would like it to, don’t despair because it is possible…
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How Large Families Can Save Money
Read moreIf you have a relatively large family, then you will probably be aware that it is often surprisingly easy to accidentally overspend and to end up with little money at the end of the month. This can happen all too easily, but the truth is that the solution is to simply adopt a different kind…
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Christmas Money Saving Tips
Read moreChristmas is one of the busiest and most expensive times of the year. If you have a large family and lots of friends then your bank account is definitely going to feel the pinch, but there are lots of things that you can do to help you save some money in the run up to…
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How to Save Money on your Energy Bill
Read moreSaving money on your energy bills is a topic that’s widely covered online, in newspapers and magazines, and more commonly on the news. Now that we approach the colder months, it’s that time of year where more and more people start to think of ways that they can save money on their energy bills. Some…
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Saving money around the home
Read moreAs a pretty thrifty family, we like to save money at every opportunity. We have solar panels on the roof of our home to help with our energy bills and we’re always careful to ensure that we turn lights off, as well as taps, and other appliances that aren’t being used. As a family of…
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Teaching children about money
Read moreTeaching children money management can be pretty confusing. I wrote a post a little while ago all about teaching children about money. I came up with a game involving Lego and our girls absolutely loved it! It was a pretty simple idea and one that we’ve gone back to on a number of different occasions as…
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Money Saving Tips for First Time Parents
Read moreCongratulations! You’re about to become parents! You’re probably more than prepared for your little ones arrival in terms of caring for them. You’ve probably read numerous books and online articles, been given lots of advice from other parents and now all that’s left to do is await your babies arrival. Everyone knows that having children…
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Space Saving Bathroom Ideas
Read moreWhen you live in a ground floor maisonette space can be a bit of an issue, especially when you have small children wandering around. Our home is all on one level and whilst this does have it’s good points – the lack of stairs is great because we don’t have to worry about our twins…
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The Complete Guide to Buying a House: From mortgages to moving In!
Read moreMoving house can be stressful, time consuming and expensive. For some the whole process is easy, especially if they have people around them who know what’s involved, but for others – my husband and I included – there’s a lot of unknown territory involved. Courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net/artur84 For the past ten years my husband…