A Long Walk to Welcome Spring

With the Easter holidays upon us most parents, if you are like me will be worrying about just how to entertain the kids and how to do it without breaking the bank. The people at Ffrees Family Finance asked some bloggers including myself to share with you all the best family days out for under £20.

Some of my favourite activities actually have a very low cost or even better they are absolutely free.

Playing at the park.

Trip to the library.

Geocaching.

Movie day.

Crafting.

The best days out are actually the spontaneous ones. We recently went out for a walk up in the fields behind where my husband used to live. It was wonderful to be out as a family together in the fresh air, blowing away those cob webs that have formed over the Winter months.

Climbing hills

Saving Money After Christmas

I don't know about you but I have the Christmas blues and so does my bank balance apparently. I love giving and receiving presents but it would be nice if we didn't have to spend money on anything else over the festive period, a nice month off from paying bills.

It has been particularly hard for me this year as we moved into our new house in the middle of December so the bills have already started to pile up.You know those dreaded brown envelopes that come in the post, the ones that want to take all your hard earned money, yep those pesky things.

And I'm sure you've noticed the prices of household utilities seem to go up year on year but I don't feel like I'm getting anything extra for the money that I'm paying.

A survey conducted by Santander recently actually revealed some quite shocking results when it comes to paying household bills. Just take a look at the infographic below :

Wilkinsons Food Processor Review

Recently I was asked to take part in a little campaign as part of the Making Money Go Further blog which is written by the experts at Debt Free Direct. The idea behind the campaign is finding out just how good supermarkets own brand electrical items are compared to those bigger brands out there, such as irons, food processors, hoovers, microwaves etc. Do we really need to spend that much money on our appliances or is this another place where we could be saving ourselves some much needed pennies?

Something that I have been in desperate need for for a while now is a new food processor, mine broke some time ago and I just haven't got around to replacing it. I was lucky enough to be sent a food processor from Wilkinson.

When it arrived I was slightly worried about how big it was going to be judging by the size of the box but I was pleasantly surprised when I opened up the package.