We can all manage our money better, it's just knowing how.
This blog aims to provide a common sense approach to the community to manage their personal finances better.
It should not be treated as financial advice and it is not related to the regulated financial products offered
by Fund Ourselves
Food prices are just one of the UK’s many rising costs - but the hardest of all to avoid. You can’t let your family go hungry even when money is short.
The new plastic – or polymer - banknotes are a big advance on the old style paper notes. A skilled and dishonest printer might be able to produce a counterfeit paper banknote that is convincing enough especially when lighting is poor.
If you have a family to feed, you won’t need reminding about the effects of inflation. It is currently running at more than 5% - but what this actually means is that you pay more to feed the family.
We all like to think that we are sensible, organised people.
When we go shopping, we go out knowing what we want to buy, how much we plan to pay and we are certainly far too sensible to be swayed by a must have in a window…
Spring is very nearly here and warmer weather and longer days are coming with it. After the long months of winter – not to mention covid worries – it’s good to start thinking about getting out and about again.
As any estate agent will tell you, the most important room in any home is the kitchen. You need enough bedrooms, you need space in the living room - but the kitchen is where everything – cooking, laundry and often eating – gets done.
It may have started as a religious practice in the far east – or it could have been a reaction to seeing just how mucky a house had become when longer days and stronger sunlight revealed the dirt built up over winter.