Hello Autumn! There is a chill in the air here in London which brings the itch to play in the kitchen. I have gotten into a bit of a rut with my cooking so my new project is to compile a list of all the recipes that we like and mix it up a bit [...]
Recessionomics – The economic slowdown during recession. There has been quite a bit of talk this week about the recession being over. I must say I am not convince in the least. Are we supposed to believe that there is going to be a huge change just because governments are saying we are out of [...]
We have just come back from a lovely holiday in the south of France – all I can say is the food was amazing. We rented a tiny little flat near the beach in a not so salubrious area outside of Cannes. We only ate out a few times for lunch not because we were trying [...]
Years ago before we committed to a relationship, we worried about prospective partners having too much emotional baggage, now it seems we are worrying about financial baggage, both, theirs and ours. We bring with us, student loans many years after we have graduated, credit card debt that we just can’t seem to rid ourselves of, sort of [...]
After last week’s sad post, I thought I would tell you some of my frugal quirks. I hope I am not the only person out there with strange frugal habits and fears. My beloved even sometimes thinks I am weird but I will let you be the judge of my weirdness. 1. I can’t throw [...]
Hello! Yes I am back blogging after a ten month stint in High Fashion photography – the job took every waking hour and all of my brain power which is still recharging. Please forgive me if I have forgotten how to write! I am now back at the computer with a free month in front [...]
I seem to have hit the proverbial wall in my quest for a debt free life. Perhaps it is Christmas looming or just that, at the moment, I am surrounded but spendaholics that think I am a bit strange. For my sanity, I have been thinking of ways to stay on the frugal track. Always [...]
You have been doing you best to be frugal, you really, really have, the problem is it is August and you want to go away. Some of your girlfriends are going on expensive holidays but you could not look yourself in the mirror if you went on one of those. Your other girlies are [...]
Oh wow! I have just realized that this is my 101st post. In light of this momentous occasion, I thought I would do a post reflecting my favourite past posts, just like on Seinfeld or Friends – it is the one with all the flashbacks. The post that got the most reaction from my lovely [...]
In her book, Get Rich, Lucky Bitch, Denise Duffield-Thomas, writes about using EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique to remove emotional blocks to being rich. Unfortunately, she never really explains how EFT works or how to do it. Since she recommends it so highly, I have sought out an EFT practitioner to give me the hows and [...]
Make do and mend was one of the slogans of wartime England since clothing and fabric was rationed for the war effort. It seems these times, of a kind, are back again in that we are fighting an economic war of sorts. We have redundancies, people worried if they are going to lose their job [...]
Is there a link between being depressed and being in debt? I guess this is a chicken and the egg kind of question. Lots, I mean LOTS of women use shopping as a chemical pick me up. (I have a friend that tripled her wardrobe while going through a particularly bad break-up.) The problem [...]