Living the good life on a budget.
The next post I always think about after writing my aims for the month ahead, is my dividend income for the previous month. I love dividend income updates, as it’s definitely building into a good passive income stream now. It’s a slow and steady plod, but it’s going! I love logging into my account…
Hello May! These are slightly later than I would normally post but for good reason – I have chicken pox! I can’t believe it 🙁 I never had it as a child and not entirely sure where I’ve caught it from, but it’s awful. I feel like I’ve got the flu, plus I have a lot…
Well, hasn’t April gone by fast!? It always seems to be the same; I write these reviews more quickly each month, I’m sure of it! April has been a lovely month. We went away for 5 days to Center Parcs at Whinfell forest with Mr FC’s family and it was just wonderful. I love…
Reading something on Facebook prompted this post, but it’s something that I had considered a bit ago and then forgot about. I think I thought it would stretch our finances a bit too much at this time, but I keep going back to the idea, so here we go. Would you start a pension…
I talk a lot here at The Frugal Cottage about saving money, budgeting and early retirement. That’s the three strands I focus on most and have done right from the start. Posts about saving money on food, general money saving tips and investing for income are my most popular posts. But, I was reading…
Recently, I feel like I’m losing focus on our goals and am not trying enough to be able to achieve them. I think that little things can get in the way and you can lose track completely. I especially feel like this when I’m having a bad week eating wise; it’s so easy to throw…
I cannot be the only one that finds it hard to believe we’re already a third of the way through April already?! The last time I did a life update, we were still in the early stages of having Frugal Baby around and sleep deprivation was all I could think about. One of the things…
I have mentioned in previous blog posts that it took me a long time to start investing. I found the whole idea of investing quite scary. There were multiple warnings about the fact that you could lose your money and that you could get out much less than you put in. Putting the money that…
The third month of the year is over which means I get to do another dividend income post. I just love writing these! It took me well over a year to pluck up the courage to open a stocks and shares ISA and get started, but I am so glad I did. I love…
Hello April! I didn’t post my aims yesterday as it was Easter Sunday, so here they are instead. I can’t believe we’re already in the fourth month of 2018. How fast is this year going so far?! I seem to keep saying that a lot recently; I wonder if that’s a sign of getting older……
