Buying a home is incredibly overwhelming, especially for first-time buyers. While it is certainly an exciting process at times, it is also quite daunting. After all, a house is the biggest purchase most people make in their whole lives but is nothing like any other financial transaction you will have faced. Because of this unfamiliarity, many first-time buyers sabotage their search and sale by making easily avoidable errors. With that…
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Important Aspects To Think About When Buying A Home*
When the time comes to move house, you often become somewhat overawed with all of the different facets of purchasing a place and all of the responsibilities that come along with it. You’ve worked hard for a long time, and you’ve prepared mentally for the strain of it all, but now the preparing has begun, and you need to think long and hard about what you want. The ideal scenario…
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Buying our forever home – House Buying Series
I recently asked a poll on twitter about what content you would like to see and Buying our House came out on top. I don’t use twitter polls as much as I should and even though my engagement on twitter has been very sparse lately, it’s nice to see that people who follow me have been keen to respond (thank you so much for that, really means a lot). Buying…
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Twenty Side Hustle Goals to take me to 2020
I am a bonefide queen of the side hustle idea but not really managed to implement it enough that I am making any money I have to declare (profit baby, profit). This year I want that to change. As I mentioned in my previous blog post about growing my side hustle, I am going to utilise the things I already have worked on and started, rather than reinvent the wheel….
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Snag Tights – The first tights that fit me
Am I the last to know about this brand? Possibly. But I really didn’t believe that there would be tights that would fit my body. Big enough and comfortable enough to fit my thighs and bum but also tight enough around my ankles. When Snag Tights first caught my eye it was through the instagram page of Sally – cuttinnstickin who I found on the off chance because I saw…
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Growing my side hustle: Blogging and selling online
I have been a hobby blogger since 2010 and have never really made any money from it. In the last 12 months I have been increasing my side hustle from online selling and want to try and do more. It started last March when Claire started her new job. Since the changes in her health she took a job which was (meant to be) less stressful which meant a reduction…
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Life Update: Grieving, home buying, health
If you don’t follow me on social media you may not have known about the updates happening in my life over the last 6 months. Lump update You may remember that I had a lump and was being tested for sarcoma. A rare cancer. I went for an MRI scan a couple of weeks after the initial ultrasound as they were not sure what it might be. I can confirm…
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3 Tips for Guarding Yourself Against Future Chaos
Image via Pixabay It’s just one of those uncomfortable facts of life, that we all face misfortune from time to time. While things may seem great, and carefree, in any given moment, there is always the risk that our cars will break down unexpectedly, will get hit by a bill or expense we forgot about, or that something more serious will happen to throw us off track. It can be…
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2019 in TV – What have I watched so far*
It’s been a fantastic year for TV already and now that Sky have the Netflix app we have been watching so much more than normal and wanted to give a round up of our faves. As we settle down in front of our TV one of the Oled televsions Panasonic, we have been enjoying the following shows: Call the Midwife – Netflix – Series 1-5 (Series 6 is a Christmas Special) This…
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It’s okay to arrange convenience in your life
Pexels ‘Convenience’ can sometimes be misconstrued as a dirty word. We think of the person who chooses to take the elevator or escalator each time, despite there only being one flight of stairs between them and their goal. We think of the person who orders takeout three times a week despite perfectly good groceries sitting in their refrigerator. It’s easy to confuse convenience with laziness sometimes, and perhaps the previous…
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