Ideas for your Baby’s First Christmas

Guest post – Ideas for your Baby’s First Christmas   Christmas is automatically made one hundred times more magical when spending it with a wonderful…

New Year Resolutions: Saving more and cutting on energy bills

  With December it’s not just the cold that comes, but also the pressure to come up with your very own ever growing list of…

25 Fabulous Free Things to Enjoy at Christmas

 Christmas does not all have to be about spending money. It is so much more than that. The best things as ever are free. Here’s…

Christmas finance: get rewarded for your shopping

Some say that generosity is its own reward, but when it comes to Christmas, it never hurts to earn a little extra and .get rewarded…

Budgeting for the winter

Guest post – Budgeting for the winter. Having children can be a seriously expensive hobby. If they aren’t in need of a new school uniform…

The Bumper Christmas on a Budget Linky

Well not too long to go. Have you spent a fortune already? I strongly recommend at this point taking stock. We all need to sit…

3 Big Sources Of Heat Loss In Your Home

If you, like many families, are struggling with the rising costs of energy bills and are looking at easy yet effective ways to keep warm…

Christmas Eve Traditions in Our House

Christmas Eve Traditions in Our House – Every Christmas Eve we visit Uncle Simon and Aunty Kathi for lunch and see the children’s grandparents and…

Pokemon Y Review

Pokemon Y Review -My 9 year old son is massively into Pokemon. He thinks they are just brilliant and he particularly loves watching them on…

Good Cleaning Habits To Form When You Have Kids

Good Cleaning Habits To Form When You Have Kids is a Guest post As any parent would agree, kids and mess go hand in hand.…

Our Large White Magis Puppy Chair

As my regular readers know earlier this year we have a pretty extensive house makeover. A large part of this exercise was decluttering and freeing…

Effective Ways to Cut Costs Around the House

Effective Ways to Cut Costs Around the House – lets take a look.     Effective Ways to Cut Costs Around the House Most of…

Why Do Kids Need To Know About Saving?

Personal finance is just a minefield. That’s something we learn in adulthood and parents regularly wish they’d known that this elusive and bewitching entity ‘cash’…

Could you be sat on a festive fortune?

Seriously have a look around you really could be sat on a festive fortune. We all do it don’t we? Drop loose change in our…

What kind of shopper tribe do you belong to? (& a …

Hmm…. well I have just nipped over to Barclaycard to see what kind of shopping tribe I belong too by taking their 60 second quiz.…

The best clogs, ever

I think I have found the best clogs, ever. I like shoes that last the distance. That you can keep for a long while. I…

How to grow your business in 2013

How to grow your business in 2013 – Many moons ago when I was a teenager I started to paint on glass. I am not…

Why Busy Mums Love the Internet

As regular readers will know I have two young children aged 6 and 9 an like all mums love the internet My job as a…

Learning with children at home – Art & Craft

Learning begins long before a child can look at books or hold a pencil. Learning starts at birth and parents play a key role in…

Grandparents save UK parents £16.4bn each year

Grandparents save UK parents a fortune! The amount of money saved by parents when grandparents look after the children is amazing and definitely on the…