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Budget-Friendly Ideas For Children’s Birthdays
In the current economic climate, your child’s birthday might be causing you a lot of stress if you are wondering you to afford it all. But a special day doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. Here are some tips to make a birthday memorable, without spending loads of money. Parties Don’t Have to Break the Bank While you might think that a birthday bash has to include hiring a venue, bouncy castles, food and more, this is not necessarily the case. Your kid will likely be content with anything just as long as they feel special and have the opportunity to play with friends. A good idea…
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6 Ways To Give Back To Your Wedding Guests
The whole point of inviting people to your wedding is to be able to share your love with the people that you love most. Weddings may be an expensive invitation from the perspective of the guests, as they may need new attire, transportation, lodging, and even the wedding present. It’s understandable that as the bride and groom, you want to show your guests how much you appreciate their presence, so here are some brilliant ideas about how to do just that on your wedding day. Keep the kids entertained Taking their children to a wedding is something that almost all parents dread. Children are easily bored, making it difficult to…
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Ultimate Wedding Budget Checklist
Wedding planning can be stressful. There’s so much to decide before the big day, and you’ve always got to keep one eye on your budget. This guide will help you keep track of exactly what should be on your wedding budget. All you need to decide is how much of your budget you should allocate to each item. The guide also includes some useful money-saving tips. Attire What you wear is important on your wedding day. From the perfect dresses to well-fitted suits, you want everything to be just right. However, you don’t have to spend a huge amount of your budget on attire if you’re savvy. For example, you…
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Five Ways to Save Money When Planning a Wedding
We all know that weddings don’t come cheap – experts estimate that the average wedding in the UK now costs between £18,000 and £32,000. Shocking, right? The great news is that there are so many ways to slash that cost, here are my top five tips: Buy as much as possible second hand I have always been a huge advocate of second hand shopping, and when it comes to weddings, I make exception. Rings are a great thing to buy second hand as new rings lose so much value immediately after purchase. In fact they probably depreciate even quicker than new cars, so you can get so much more for…
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Christmas Gift Ideas for 4 Year Olds with Etsy
All links in this post are affiliate links which mean I earn a small percentage of any sales made at no extra cost to you, the reader I have written lots of times in the past about my love for Etsy – in fact, I even have my own shop there. More and more I am making a real effort to shop small. I know myself the thrill whenever someone places an order with me, and I love the idea of giving someone else that thrill too. My daughter is now 4 and I am am trying to move away from buying everything from Amazon. So here are a few…
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10 Ways to Have a Frugal Christmas
The last few months have been very expensive (a new boiler being only one of many huge unexpected expenses) and we have found ourselves in the position where our savings have been depleted and our credit card debt has risen. As such, we are looking to be even more thrifty this year and have a frugal Christmas. Here are some things we will be doing to cut our spending this year compared to previous years: Secret Santa We have agreed with some of our family that we will do Secret Santa gifts for the grown ups, that means that each adult is responsible for buying only one gift, with a…
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Celebrate Baby’s First Christmas… on a Budget
Christmas is such an exciting time, especially when it’s your first one as a parent. When you are looking at how to celebrate baby’s first Christmas, it’s easy to get carried away by the pressure to spend spend spend, especially in this era of social media where sometimes it can feel like everyone apart from you has taken their child to an expensive Breakfast with Santa, put together pricey personalised Christmas Eve boxes or even jetted off to Lapland! If you are as lucky as we are, relatives will love to spoil your child with gifts so I always try as a parent to focus more on making things special,…
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Birthday Pizza Party: Celebrating Lauren’s 4th Birthday
I’m not really sure how Lauren came up with the idea for having a birthday pizza party when her 4th birthday rolled around, but if I had to guess, Peppa Pig, Blaze & The Monster Machines or Paw Patrol must have had something to do with it. We knew it was going to be hard to top Lauren’s 3rd birthday party so we decided to do something totally different this year. We were keen to host it again at home (as we have worked very hard to create a lovely garden to entertain in) but instead of inviting her whole nursery class we asked Lauren to select a few close…
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Gift Ideas for a Four Year Old
My daughter is turning four in a couple of weeks – I can’t believe how quickly time has flown. How has it been a year since her last birthday? I am beginning to get organised when it comes to buying her a few bits and pieces and I thought I would share with you some gift ideas for a four year old just in case they help you out too. I have kept everything well under £25 as I don’t believe that spending big bucks is guaranteed to get a gift they will enjoy and actually play with (quite the opposite as I have found to my dismay!). 24 Piece…
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Saving Money On Your Wedding Day – Why Is It Considered Taboo?
Weddings are beautiful. They are often a spectacle. They are an event, a community happening, a bonding experience for your family. They are also indulgent, and sometimes, quite expensive. Discussing and dividing the responsibility for such expenses can be a worrying and sometimes quite difficult task, as many of us know. In fact, achieving this can often take much debate, especially when it comes to two different families with different financial means and philosophies of how a wedding should be run. But one thing is often pressing under the surface of all this – why should you feel opposed to saving money on your wedding day? Is this such a…
