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5 Privacy Settings to Protect Your Family on Facebook
Confession time: I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook. On the one hand, it’s great to be able to connect with so many people at once, stay updated on their lives, and contact them when I need to. On the other hand, I often hesitate to *do*...
How to Consolidate Credit Cards
Credit card debt can be one of those things that sneaks up on you suddenly. You may be doing a great job staying on top of those repayments and only using your credit cards when you absolutely have to, but often it can become all too easy to start...
Ways to Save Money Around the House
Without even realising it, many of us are throwing money down the drain with some of our daily habits at home. It happens through our energy usage, our food waste and as a result of the service providers we choose to utilise. More often than not,...
Opening Up the Renovation Conversation
I was asked to start a blog about building and renovation as I run my own business within the construction industry together with my husband. My background is not in Construction originally. I came into the business five years ago from a change,...
The Biggest Surprises as a Working-from-Home-Mum
I’d always dreamed of being my own boss, naively thinking that working from home meant getting lots of work done while the baby slept, and having a spotless house with all that “extra time” I’d have. It wasn’t long after my first baby was born that...
Tips to Save Energy
It’s a little odd to say, but electricity is a big part of family life. When you think about it, how often do your family use electricity during the day? There’s lighting, electric showers, cookers, computers, televisions and air conditioning units...
9 Steps to a Financially Organised Life
Are you financially well organised? Financial organisation has different meanings for different people which is understandable given we all have different financial circumstances. For some of us, it might mean having a budget in place and ensuring...
The 7 Keys to Living a Fabulous Life
Today is R U Ok Day. So I’m asking R U Ok? If the answer is no, or you know someone who is not okay, keep reading. Sometimes the feelings can creep up on us, until WHAM, we wake up one day feeling like we have a concrete slab on our chest. Or...
5 Tips for the Most Frugal Mums
Make your printer work harder Printer ink is expensive! Did you know that you can save ink by switching from black to blue near the end of its run? Doing this will give you a few more runs before it signs off for good! Also, did you know Garamond...
Holidays with Kids – How to Get the Best Deals
Holidays with kids – two of my most favourite things in the world. Putting them together can sometimes be a recipe for disaster, not to mention an expensive disaster at that. Before we had children, we travelled the world freely, without a care in...
