What are the best ways to teach kids about money? There’s no doubt that this is an important task for any parent these days. I didn’t really understand money all that well when I started earning for the first time as an adult. I often wish that I’d learned more about money as a child so that I was better able to make good decisions around spending. The thought often niggles at me about how I’m going to prevent my beautiful little girl from making the same financial mistakes as my husband and I did! I don’t want her to…
Author: Hayley
I’ve been told before that I wear my heart on my sleeve for all to see, but there’s one subject I’ve found it really hard to spill my guts about – and that’s our debt problems. I guess I worry about how people might perceive our situation and judge us based on decisions we made a long time ago. That’s why most of our friends and family don’t actually know the full amount of debt we’re in. We have tried to tell a select few people from time to time and these people know that we’re in debt but not…
Do you think anyone you know might be hiding debt? I came across a post from Simple Finance Blog yesterday on ‘Hiding Money From Your Spouse’ and it brought some memories back for me of a similar situation I found myself in a good few years ago. This was when my world fell apart having just learned that my wonderful husband (boyfriend at that time) was up to his neck in debt and that he’d been hiding it from me. Hiding debt from those you love is quite common We’d just bought our first house together and when applying for…
We’re really honoured to have been nominated by fellow bloggers A Matter of Life or Debt for the Liebster Award – an award given by bloggers to help discover new and upcoming blogs! Thank you Mike and Elisabeth. It’s a great way to research new blogs in our niche and start building a blogger network. Here are the rules of the Award: Only blogs with less than 200 Twitter followers can be nominated Must pass on the award in the same blog category Recipients must post 11 random facts about self (selves?) Post answers to the questions asked by blogger…
Over the past few months, we’ve been really focused on saving money for our emergency fund and then starting to attack our debt ladder. It was a fantastic feeling when we finally paid off an overdraft on an old account that had been at the same amount for years. And then to get rid of the small credit card felt truly amazing! Now we’re tackling credit card no. 2 and so this is where things stand with our debt ladder now. Overdraft from old bank account – £80.43 Credit card no. 1 – £179 Credit card no. 2 – £5519.89…