by Maria Nedeva | 22 Jul, 2018 | Control spending, Spend money
What do you reckon, friend, is a holiday in the sun worth getting in debt? I can tell you what I think. I most emphatically believe that nothing is worth getting in debt; not even a week of sunshine, sea and beautiful beaches. Still, this is the reformed me; the ‘me’...
by Maria Nedeva | 19 Jul, 2018 | Control spending
My bread-maker is one of the gadgets in my kitchen that saves me time, money and gives us so much sensual pleasure. There are good reasons to buy a bread maker if you already don’t have one. (You know that there are few pleasures that compare favourably to the smell...
by Maria Nedeva | 4 May, 2018 | Control spending, Personal finance tools
In this post I share the blueprint, and the tools, you need to spring clean your budget and take change of your money. Oh, and if you are curious you could also have a peek at the results of my budget spring clean. I feel ambivalent about budgets. On the one hand,...
by Maria Nedeva | 20 Feb, 2018 | Control spending
Sitting on a chair lift, getting ready to go down a snowy slope and examining my life for misdemeanours, just in case I’m about to meet my maker, I overheard the conversation between my two co-lift people. ‘We are staying in the Grand’ – the lady said. ‘We probably...
by Maria Nedeva | 26 Jan, 2018 | Budgeting, Control spending
Today, I’ll tell you how to have fun on a budget so that you can see your friends, even when in money trouble, and keep your bank account happy. My friend J. Money did what we all should do: instead of trying to figure out what are the most popular money problems he...
by Maria Nedeva | 21 Nov, 2017 | Control spending, Money management
When I got back from work today a letter from our water company was waiting for me. Rather unexpectedly it said that our bill is going up. Again. This made me have a good, hard look at the rest of our energy and utility bills and it seems they are all going up. Now, I...
