Living the good life on a budget.
Well, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m glad May is over. Firstly, it seems like it has gone on forever, plus I have found this month to be particularly difficult. In fact, for the first time since I started this blog in 2014, including when I had my children, I have had a…
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It seems like it’s been a while since I did an Life Update post. In fact, life has been a little crazy round here lately so I thought I’d do a quick update. Firstly, we’re over half way through our extension work now, which is great. It seems to be taking shape and now…
This post comes after a couple of weeks of thinking about my own finances. About how the confidence I feel about using money doesn’t extend to other areas of my life. Financial knowledge is one thing, but everything else can seem confusing. The basis of this follows the post about emotional spending, which has…
Another month is over already, so it’s time for my favourite monthly post My dividend income updates are some of my most popular posts here at The Frugal Cottage. And this is my fourth year of dividend investing, already. I can’t believe it! And one of the only things I regret is not starting sooner. If…
Hello May! I’m a bit sad that April is over as it turned out to be a lovely month. However, May should be good too, just in different ways. May is often a quiet month in the Frugal Cottage household, and we have nothing planned in particular. Just the usual routine which isn’t a bad…
Goodbye April! This month seems to have flown by, much quicker than March was. We had such a lovely family holiday at Center Parcs, even though it seems like ages ago now. A loved going into the swimming pool and going down the slides in the children’s bit. He was getting quite confident by the…
So, I talked on my Instagram stories last week about making money. I had seen something posted on Facebook which got me thinking about our household income. About how, even in the short term, trying to get some extra cash into our home would be beneficial. Of course, it would, that’s obvious. But,…
Just a little post to say Happy Easter to you 🙂 we’re spending the day with my Grandpa and my Mum, so it should be lovely. And, if you don’t celebrate Easter, then happy Sunday 🙂 xx
To be honest, this topic is very personal to me and something I have been struggling with for some months now. I’ve got another post around a different topic linked to emotional spending, but I thought I’d look at this first. Emotional spending is a real danger area for a lot of people. But,…
