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planning for christmas presents

So, this is a good time to start thinking about buying Christmas gifts for your nearest and dearest. As the purveyor of stories about personal finance, you might think that I had no time for giving away my wealth in the form of expensive Christmas presents. You’d be half right. I set a great deal [...]

cash burns a hole in my pocket

I think I’m doing pretty well on the frugality side. I’ve trained myself not to spend money using a card. For my general spending, I have a cash only budget - this is supposed to cover food, entertainment and everything that comes under miscellaneous. For actual purchases, clothes, household items, gadgets and gizmos I use [...]

calling for an election

If you live in the UK and you watch the news, you can’t fail to have noticed the rumours that there may be a general election in the air. As I’m actually quite interested in politics (but not political parties so much), this is not good news for me. Due to my house move being [...]