Today’s guest post is from Mia Northrop. Mia is a coach and co-host of Life Admin Life Hacks, a podcast that helps you find more time, money, peace of mind and household …
The cost of feeding the family in 2019
Before I start to discuss how much as it costs to provide and care for a family with five kids, I feel it important to note that I am eternally grateful for …
What you want vs what you need
This post is sponsored by UBank. Two years ago we started making preparations to sell our house. As you would know we have five kids (four boys and one girl). Our home …
Spending On Kids At Christmas
This post is part of my 10 Week Christmas Planning Series. Click here to read more posts – Christmas Planning 2013. Last week I shared how much we spent on our kids …
Family Travel On A Budget With Home Swapping
Today’s post is from Carolyn Russell, a mum to two busy toddlers, married to an accountant, chief home swap organiser for her family and director of Swap St, a recently launched family …
Feeding The Family – What Are We Spending?
This post is part of a series on family finances. You can find the other posts in the series here: Feeding The Family – Budgeting, Planning and Tracking Feeding The Family – …
Family Finances
On the blog in May I am going to be running a series on family finances. A central source of information for these posts will come from the survey that so many …
How Much Do You Spend On Food?
This is the question I have been asked many times already this year in emails by readers. I thought instead of looking at what I spend as my circumstance and family set …
4 Reasons Why Budgets Fail
This time two years ago, I had Mr I guest post on how we budget as a family and the tools we use. His post takes you through the three step process …
Budget Basics
As we enter the second week of the new year, I thought it would be appropriate to revisit my post on budget basics. I still clearly remember the shock to the system …
Christmas Budget 2009
Image by Skpy Item 2 on my Christmas Planning Checklist is to update and review the Christmas Budget. As I have been buying materials for the home made gifts, I have been …