For Christmas this year, my husband kindly gave me an Amazon Echo – and so far, I love it. In fact, I wish I had one in every room. It’s great for listening to podcasts and my Audible audiobooks, plus the reminder function is very handy. Plus, now that my daughter is back at school and my home office is terribly quiet, it’s almost like Alexa is my new colleague,… View Post
What can I say? I love magazines. It started as a kid with my monthly edition of Highlights Magazine, the Canadian version of a Blue Peter comic, then through my teenage years, it was YM and Sassy magazines that I would read cover-to-cover. As an adult, my tastes slowly changed, moving from Glamour and Red Magazine to Ideal Home and Good Homes. However, magazines don’t come cheap – especially if… View Post
Did you know three quarters of us are on the wrong mobile phone tariff, paying for freebies that we don’t need and wasting around £200 a year? Or that a third of us are still being charged for our mobile phone handset, even after we have already paid for it – and shelling out an extra £22 a month on average? But the sheer number of tariffs, deals and one-off… View Post
With the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales just around the corner, now is a good time to up the ante on your online shopping skills. Here are five ways you can save money with your good friend Google. BROADEN YOUR SEARCH If you type “Marks & Spencer sale” into Google, you will get results that match your search terms,but that is only a small piece of the whole of the… View Post
It’s November! Not only does that mean that Christmas is around the corner, but it is also the month of my birthday – oh, and my husband’s too. His lands on the 6th of November and mine falls less than a week later on the 12th – which makes for a lot of celebrating in less than one week. So, I’ve pulled together a list of the best offers… View Post
With Christmas still two months away, it might feel a little early to start untangling the tinsel. But the battle to get your cash this festive season is already raging on the high street with offers and deals designed to get you spending long before Santa packs his sled. One of the most popular types of offers being rolled out by brands this year are the refer-a-friend deals which offer attractive cash bonuses to existing… View Post