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The Truth About Guaranteed Car Finance

If you want to buy a new car but you have a low credit score, you probably think that guaranteed car finance is the answer.

A quick type of ‘guaranteed car finance’ into Google brings up page upon page of brokers and dealers promising to accept all finance applications, regardless of your circumstances. Guaranteed car finance is described as a hassle-free, quick and easy solution to obtaining finance. Sounds perfect right?

Well it’s not quite true.

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How to Shop Around for the Best Deals

How we shop has drastically changed over the years, there was a time when you’d purchase everything you needed in your local high street. Shopping then would be considered a full day out, stopping in at the butchers, the bakers and the greengrocers. These days things have changed, we have a lot more options of where we can buy the things we need. Businesses are constantly fighting to have cheaper prices over their competitors so that you buy their products instead.

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Jangle App

A few weeks ago I was invited up to The Avon George Hotel in Bristol to have lunch with Sarah Willingham from Dragon’s Den and find out about her and Experian’s new app called Jangle.

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‘A tool for  parents  – to help make their day to day lives a little easier, but also to support  them in being able to help their children learn essential money management skills which could then be reinforced in the school environment in time.’

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Thrifty Thursday – Now A Monthly Linky

I have been running my Thrifty Thursday linky now for over 2 years and in that time I’ve had some lovely bloggers link up their frugal posts. I have really enjoyed reading them and they have kept me motivated on the money saving front.

Time has become a major issue in our house recently, in that we never seem to have enough of it so I have made the decision to switch the linky from a weekly one to monthly instead. The linky will now go live on the first Thursday of every month and will stay open for 2 weeks. So for the first time the new monthly linky is now open!  I hope you can join us and please do let others know about it too.Read More »Thrifty Thursday – Now A Monthly Linky

Reuse & Zero Waste Week

Zero Waste Week

In case you don’t already know this week is Zero Waste Week. This is my 2nd year of joining in and it always gets me thinking about how we can reduce, reuse and also save money. My pledge for this year is to switch from disposable sanitary products to reusable ones. My experiences of this will follow shortly as obviously it’s pretty time sensitive. In the meantime I have been thinking of other products that we could reuse in our household instead of throwing away.Read More »Reuse & Zero Waste Week

Give Your House a Thrifty Reboot This Afternoon!

Small changes in décor can have a big impact on how room feels, and small changes to your bank balance can have an equally large impact on how you feel about your next interior design project.

One quick, cheap, and simple project for each room in the house can quickly take you from drab to fab.

Here’s some ideas you can run through in an afternoon:

  1. Study: Book Yourself A Colourful New Look
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Thrifty Periods & Zero Waste Week

I’ll start of this post by saying this is a post about periods, if words like blood and vagina freak you out you then might I suggest you read something else. If however you would like to learn how you can save money on your period every month while also reducing your household waste then read on.

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I was inspired to write this post because of the theme for this years Zero Waste Week which is ‘Reuse’. I started to think about products that we use in the house and what we could start reusing insteadRead More »Thrifty Periods & Zero Waste Week

Home decor on a budget

Decorating on a Budget

People always seem to have a perception that they can’t afford to decorate. There always seems to be something else that they should be spending their money on whether it be swimming lessons for the kids or new tyres for the car. Today I’m going to try and dispel the myth that home decorating costs you a small fortune and show you a few thrifty tips to get the look you want for less.Read More »Decorating on a Budget

Thrifty Thursday – Making Money at Car Boot Sales

Firstly I’ll start off with an apology for the lack of Thrifty Thursday recently. It’s been a bit manic here what with end of term and all the things that it entails.

I’ve been on a mission the last few weeks to get our house more organised and get rid of anything that we no longer use or need. I’ve been slowly building up a collection of unwanted goods in our downstairs toilet ready to sell at a car boot.

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