Food, Freelancing and Brexit Shortages
One of the things I realised quite rapidly when I first started freelancing — and it’s an obvious one, really — is that you’ll have…
Budgeting archive
In May 2012 I had my baby son and started maternity leave for the second time, knocking my family income down by over £800 per month. Surviving on Statutory Maternity Pay taught me to budget, and how to feed a family of four on only £20 a week. Nowadays I'm back to working, but still juggling the demands of two school-aged children against the reality of self-employed income.
Budgeting: The Great Big Tax Bill and Recurring Payment Hell
After the touch of reality reflected in the last post — how my over-spending and wastefulness was contributing to an unsteady financial future w/r/t buying…
Back to Budgeting Basics
Feels like ages since I’ve talked about budgeting, and for a reason… with excess spend on frivolities, a loan to pay off two credit cards…
What a day.
Gaz is away til late tonight so I have 3 options: Catch up on some more work, which I need to do. Catch up on…
Depressing money crap
I’ve just come off the phone to my current mortgage provider. I rang up to see how much I’d likely be able to borrow if…
Mortgage Free in 5 years: half of every invoice goal
Having announced my intention to return to 100% freelance from October, it might therefore be surprising to hear that I’m also going to be attempting…
Making money with ‘comping’, win a weekend trip to Paris
Off the back of yesterday’s post about earning passive income (which in itself was a kick up the bum, and I feel a little more…
Earning ‘passive’ income
I talk about passive income every now and again on my blog, so I thought I’d talk about what it means to me. What is…
Hoard Mode
As I woke up to another sale on my premium mail form yesterday, I felt like I’d received a fresh kick up the bum to…
Kick up the arse: update #1
As promised, I’m documenting my progress following my big kick up the arse… This week I: Unlocked my online banking account Entered nearly 4 months…
Kick up the arse
I spent nearly an hour on the phone on Tuesday night with a friend of mine who’s asked to remain nameless (I don’t know why,…
Mortgage Free: Bumps in the Road
One of the biggest barriers to me being mortgage free in 5 years is a bad habit I don’t tend to talk about too often:…