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The Meal Planning Linky Week #29 Meal Plan

katykickerJuly 20, 2018 0 Comments

Meal planning is something that I have really come to love in recent months. Meal planning helps us avoid buying takeaways, helps us to eat healthier meals and has become an important part of my organisational week. Being able to look at a meal plan, and choose what we are going to eat, takes some of the stress away from our day. Today I’m sharing the Meal Planning Linky Week #29. This linky is hosted by myself, Katykicker, and Naomi from The Organised Life Project. We both LOVE meal planning and want to invite you to join us in sharing your meal plan and keeping motivated.

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The Meal Planning Linky Week #28 Meal Plan

katykickerJuly 13, 2018 8 Comments

Meal planning is something that I have really come to love in recent months. Meal planning helps us avoid buying takeaways, helps us to eat healthier meals and has become an important part of my organisational week. Being able to look at a meal plan, and choose what we are going to eat, takes some of the stress away from our day. Today I’m sharing the Meal Planning Linky Week #28. This linky is hosted by myself, Katykicker, and Naomi from The Organised Life Project. We both LOVE meal planning and want to invite you to join us in sharing your meal plan and keeping motivated.

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Get Beach Budget Ready with tips from digital banking service B

katykickerJuly 13, 2018 0 Comments

The Summer Holidays are nearly upon us! Where does the time go? If like me, you STILL haven’t decided where you’re going on your Summer Holidays then I’ve got some great tips to share with you today to help you get beach budget ready. This post has been created as part of a paid collaboration with B, the digital banking service, and after I attended their beach budget ready panel with Jane Anderson from Family Traveller, David Judic from digital banking service B, Alice Beer from This Morning, Jasmine Birtles from Money Magpie, Sophie Qureshi, a beauty Journalist and Cate Dixon from Kuoni. Together they made up a fantastic panel offering lots of great tips to help everyone be beach budget ready and today I’m going to share some of them with you!

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The Meal Planning Linky Week #27 Meal Plan

katykickerJuly 6, 2018 11 Comments

Meal planning is something that I have really come to love in recent months. Meal planning helps us avoid buying takeaways, helps us to eat healthier meals and has become an important part of my organisational week. Being able to look at a meal plan, and choose what we are going to eat, takes some of the stress away from our day. Today I’m sharing the Meal Planning Linky Week #27. This linky is hosted by myself, Katykicker, and Naomi from The Organised Life Project. We both LOVE meal planning and want to invite you to join us in sharing your meal plan and keeping motivated.

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Saving for the future with a JISA from Wealthsimple

katykickerJuly 5, 2018 2 Comments

Being a parent is so challenging at times. Emotionally, physically and financially. From the day our daughter was born, back in March 2016, we started a savings fund for her. Each month, when Thomas gets paid, we put away a small fixed sum of money for Daisy. This just comes out automatically, and moves to a savings account, and is basically painless. We don’t miss the money, and it goes before we allocate our money to bills, savings and spends. It isn’t a vast sum but it soon adds up and Daisy is already into the early thousands with her savings, just from these small amounts. Recently I have been thinking about the long-term, and the best way to grow Daisy’s money, for her future, without having to increase the amount of money that we are saving. Today I want to talk to you about Junior ISAs, or JISAs, as they are often known, from Wealthsimple. I have been toying with the idea of opening one and think I’m ready to take the leap!

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