Ah yes… Christmas. The time of trying your best to please everyone and not really succeeding.

I’m always torn between buying the things my friends and family will really like and actually spending what I can afford. But then if I spend less than everyone else, what will they think of me?

My hot tip for this [...]

Christmas rocks! I just love spending time in the mall, browsing the displays, trying to decide what to buy everyone.

It’s true I do tend to spend a bit much overall, but seeing the smile when I give the gift makes it all worthwhile. I’ll worry about the bank balance in the new year…

My hot tip [...]

Wow! Just six weeks to Christmas…

This time of year can be frustrating. I’ve worked hard since last December to build up my bank account and now I’m expected to spend great chunks of it on other people!

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy giving gifts. It’s just the whole ‘expectation’ of who should receive presents and [...]

I admit there are times when I’m smitten by a new product, or see something in a store I ‘must’ have. As a splurger, I more often than not succumb to the desire and drag out my wallet (or credit card) and make the purchase.

Leo Babauta over at

Trent Hamm over at The Simple Dollar just posted an awesome article called Money Bullies.

I’d never thought of it as bullying, but as Trent describes the pressure of trying to keep up with the Jones’s, or saying ‘no’ to marketing messages, or saying ‘yes’ [...]

A concerned parent asked us to comment on this scenario:

My daughter is in her first job and living at home. It’s not highly paid and we agreed a token amount of housekeeping so she could also save something each month. However she’s spending it all on having a good time and is resentful when I [...]

A concerned parent asked us to comment on this scenario:

My daughter is in her first job and living at home. It’s not highly paid and we agreed a token amount of housekeeping so she could also save something each month. However she’s spending it all on having a good time and is resentful when I [...]

A concerned parent asked us to comment on this scenario:

My daughter is in her first job and living at home. It’s not highly paid and we agreed a token amount of housekeeping so she could also save something each month. However she’s spending it all on having a good time and is resentful when I [...]

A concerned parent asked us to comment on this scenario:

My daughter is in her first job and living at home. It’s not highly paid and we agreed a token amount of housekeeping so she could also save something each month. However she’s spending it all on having a good time and is resentful when I [...]

At times I find it really hard to decide what to do with my money. Either there’s not enough cash coming in, too much money going out or I have to work out how to make the funds I have spread across multiple needs - or maybe they’re ‘wants’…?

Anyway, I found this post on Vanessa [...]