Money

Budgeting is a really important part of our family finances. Knowing what we have commitment wise is a really important step to staying calm and level headed while working as a self-employed person with a variable income and variable expenses! While I don’t budget every single penny of our spending having a budget prepared, to …

Over the last few years I have embarked on a number of money saving challenges. I have loved just about all of them, and today, to start off 2022 right, I want to share some of my favourites with you. Hopefully these money saving challenges will help you to save to build an emergency fund, …

In 2020 I finally joined Vinted. I had heard about it for a while, but never got around to using it. Then in 2021 I started to sell baby clothes that my daughter Aurora has outgrown. Before I knew it I’d made more than 50 sales and shared my top tips for selling on Vinted. …

I’m quite a stickler for money saving, as my readers will know. I love being able to cut back the household bills in order to have more treats in life. Whether it is a break to Centerparcs, treats for my friends & family or just having a nice emergency fund money saving is important to …

Several years ago I made lots of nice monies. I took some of that nice monies, that I won matched betting, and I invested it into premium bonds. I have the maximum holding, £50,000. I’ve updated this post for 2022 with my earnings up to the 5th of January 2022 so I hope you find …

For the whole of 2020 I put off selling on Vinted. I think I joined up, made an account, then decided I’d rather keep just dropping items off to the charity shop as I was overwhelmed with home schooling and family life. I visited my local charity shop a couple of months ago for the …

Did you know that it is possible to receive cash back on items you buy during your in-store grocery shop? There are shopping apps that will reimburse you in full when you buy selected groceries. Best of all these shopping apps are completely free to use! Shopmium is one such shopping app and it is …

I am going to talk to you about my top survey websites. These are some of the best survey sites in the UK, in my opinion. Survey websites are not my biggest source of income these days but they are a nice chunk of money when added up throughout the year. £1,000s in fact. I’m going …

*Swagbucks is quite a well known ‘get paid to’ company and this is my Swagbucks review. You can earn points, redeemable for a vast array of rewards (including Amazon and Paypal) for completing a number of different activities. You can earn points on purchases, receive free codes to enter several times a day for points …

*ValuedOpinions is an online survey company that offer surveys typically ranging from 50p – £2 and here is my ValuedOpinions review. On occasion I have received invitations to special projects that pay anything up to £80, but these are generally only a couple of times per year. I get 2-3 survey invitations most days, sometimes …

YourSayPays is much like OnePoll in that they have surveys listed, from Monday – Friday, and they are usually for amounts from around 5p – 50p. Some days I will find 5 surveys, other days none, but usually I can complete each survey in just a minute or two. I love short and sweet surveys …