Author: Hayley

Hello everyone! Just a quick post to let you know that I’m guest posting over at the awesome Girl Meets Debt blog today. I am really happy that GMD has agreed to feature my ‘debt confession’ as part of her brilliant new series! Thank you for having me GMD! 🙂 For anyone who is currently trying to face up to their debt, I would urge you to check out GMD’s debt confessions. You will find that you’re not alone in your battle with debt and in fact there are many people in the same boat as you. My husband and…

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Ever wondered about how to become a bridal makeup artist? Setting up as a bridal makeup artist can turn into a nice little earner on the side or possibly even develop into a full time profession. This post is quite long so forgive me in advance, but I’ve got a fair bit to say on this subject! There are also male makeup artists out there, so don’t be put off from reading this guys! I’ve had numerous different jobs during my working life so far and have tried quite a few self-employed ventures on the side – doing bridal makeup was…

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Happy Friday everyone! Hope you’ve had a great week? Mine’s been good although I’m looking forward to the weekend as usual! I’ll be spending most of this weekend working on my Christmas Money Making Challenge by getting started with listing items on eBay. I still haven’t decided what to sell though! Usually, I aim to list clothes, shoes and gadgets but I’ve already sold most of my wardrobe that I don’t wear and we don’t really have any gadgets these days. I do have some of my daughter’s old clothes which I might consider parting with. We were thinking about…

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Last week, I decided to allocate £100 for Christmas presents this year. Working to this budget for everyone I need to buy for will be tricky, but I think it will be possible to stick to it! Because I’ve been putting off saving for Christmas (due to focusing on paying off debts), I’ve run into a little problem. The problem is that I would have to take my allocated Christmas shopping cash out of any spare money left over at the end of the month after bills – and usually anything extra gets paid straight off the debts! I really…

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Back in January of this year, the hubby and I began facing up to debt at last. We resolved to pay it back and this time get rid of it for good. We’d tried several times before to pay back our debt with varying degrees of success but eventually, we racked it back up time after time for one reason or another. This time everything feels different though and I’ve been thinking about what triggered this journey to debt freedom. It boils down to a conversation we had about our finances which effectively changed the way we view and manage…

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