Is it our civic DUTY to go out and spend to save our shops and help the economy? Since the big crash of October ’08, we have all been trying our very best to watch our spending and to be frugal. This is a great thing in many ways. We are finding other hobbies, most [...]
If you are a regular here, you will know that the past four years have been to put it mildly – challenging. I have been made redundant not once but three times since 2010, although two of those jobs were freelance gigs but I still was doing them on a long term basis. Well I [...]
Today I am at day five of the £10 week challenge, what a relief! Actually, all in all, it is not too bad. I don’t spend a huge amount of money during the week, where I freelance there is absolutely nothing in the area so there are no temptations. I bring my lunch and they [...]
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 [...]
Last weekend there was an article in The Times asking fashionistas what they will be giving up in the Credit Crunch. The item that came up on the list was the £800 It Bag. How many of us, Leaners, have bought an £800 It bag EVER? This has lead me to think about what items [...]
A colleague commented recently, she thought it was a bit strange that I don’t go out much and prefer to do my drinking at home usually with a meal that I prepared. She thinks I am a bit odd, perhaps I have a touch of agoraphobia outside the workplace, but no that is not the [...]
This is a photo of a black hole in the Milky Way. Black holes are not only in a galaxy far, far away, they are in your budget. We all have black holes, they are places where our money disappears without our knowing. We do actually know that we are spending but since it is [...]