Girl With a Mortgage

It’s the beginning of the month, and to me that means a big direct debit from my account to the bank – my mortgage payment. As my bank balance takes a dive, I try to breathe deeply in and out, and remember the good things about having a mortgage…

Having a mortgage might stress you out, [...]

If you buy things online, then maybe you have come across something like this once in a while

This picture is of the checkout or buying page of a website, and you can see that it is asking you for a promotion code. Sometimes they might call it a coupon, or a voucher, but they are [...]

OK, so apart from miles and points and whatever other offers your credit card may have attached to it, there is a very good reason to start using your credit card for as many purchases as you can!
Let me just state first of all that I have a credit card with no annual fees AND [...]

That’s a horrible title, isn’t it.  A horrible way to talk about one of my favourite things – the library. But this is how I used to feel about it, and I know a lot of people still do.
But the thing is, if you are serious about saving, (and you enjoy reading), then you need [...]

I hate February. Not because it heralds the end of summer, not because of Valentine’s Day and not because it seems a rip off of a month, with only 28 days. I hate it, because it is the month when I seem to get all kinds of letters in the mail from big fat insurance [...]