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…

Last week I had a conversation with Gaz’s colleagues about my budget Monday shops, off the back of a one-off trip to Tesco for a…

We nipped to B&Q yesterday to get some bits to finish boarding the animal shed for winter and, as is the nature of any shopping…

I was thinking the other morning (in the shower, again) about how we save money in so many ways every day… stuff that Karl &…

I realised yesterday that I’ve been comfort spending over the past few weeks. It’s somewhat ironic that a shopping hater would reach out to shopping…

Part of my ongoing mission to save money this year, these things have saved me money this month… 1. Cancelled our lovefilm membership I’ve fallen…

I’m on a mission to reduce our outgoings over the next 12 months. We’re not massive consumers anyway, which I think makes it harder to…

Hello there, my name is Jem. About 6 years ago I bought my first pair of Skechers. They were amazingly comfortable. I’d never before had…

My new sofa, held up for a fortnight or so by incompetent muppets at Homebase (Argos), finally arrived at 8:20 this morning. Wahey!

On the 22nd May I bought a sofa from Homebase on the Wellington Retail Park in Telford. We were told in store to expect a…

Some of you may recall that back in June I worked out the cost of disposable nappies: how much we’d spent in the first 6…

Am I the only one who struggles to buy Christmas presents for men? It’s that time of year again (and right up there with birthdays…