Girl With a Mortgage

Recently I had to travel to China to do business – visiting Guanzhou, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. While I was on a budget, I thought I could at least splash out a bit on mid-range hotels. At which point, I learned something about China
Mid-range Chinese business hotels are more expensive but actually less nice than [...]

Yes, I realise that is misspelled, but I did it on purpose to try and make it rhyme, make it snappy, make it marketable goddamn it.
If you can’t tell what that word in the title is meant to be, it is a bastardisation of the word Judgement – and what is a Budget Judgement? It [...]

Lately I have been running out of shoes – you know when you have so few shoes, that it becomes a pivotal part of your fashion decisions, because so many outfits get ignored because ‘I don’t have shoes to go with that’.
The problem is, I don’t want to buy shoes, because a pair will set [...]

It used to be (in Sydney anyway), that Tuesday was called “Tight Arse Tuesday”. Not only because of half priced movie tickets, but also because that was the day of the week when petrol was the cheapest. Weekend petrol wasn’t cheap, because that is when everyone is driving around the most. Friday petrol was expensive, [...]

Don’t you hate it when an online retailer says there will be a x% surcharge on your purchase if you pay by credit card, and then give you NO OTHER OPTION BUT TO PAY WITH CREDIT CARD?!
I mean, sure, if there is an easier way to do it, and I am doing it the harder [...]