Moving country is a significant undertaking wherever your journey is taking you. There are so many things to organise in order to tie up your affairs in the country that you’re leaving, that it can be easy to miss a crucial task which in your destination. The UK is an attractive place to live, but [...]
Many of my fellow PF bloggers pride themselves on how many no spend days can have a month. In the newspapers, the past few days there has been a warning that instead of the UK having a good old recession we might be sliding into deflation. What the heck is deflation you ask, well I [...]
Way back in my second post, Lean Times Tools, I wrote about little things that make it easier to be frugal or lean. Then I was writing about, cutting off the end of a tube of toothpaste to get every last drop or using a mini spatula to dig out that last smear of skin [...]
I have gotten very hot on putting money aside at the moment, since last month was a Lean Time for me financially. I am now taking 10% of every payment and putting it straight into my ING savings account. The other way I ‘trick’ myself into saving is on the first of the month I [...]