Money diaries

Money Diaries: Budgeting during a pandemic is weird, you spend more in one go and feel bad but in reality your spending less on everything else.

It's now 2020, my husband is on furlough for at least three weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have a mortgage to pay, and a large loan payment to worry about on top of bills and council tax - not the situation we had planned for.

Kay Choudhury
Kay Choudhury

4 minute read
Money diaries

Money Diaries: £12.99 is cheap enough, or at least that's what I tell myself

The lockdown measures have meant I'm unable to make my monthly trip back home to see my family, we've been able to video chat on Whatsapp so it's made the distance a little easier. On the plus side, I've been able to spend more time with Sam.

Jess Durrant
Jess Durrant

3 minute read
Money diaries

Money Diaries: How Covid-19 made me realise I’m a frivolous spender

Having spent nearly 2 weeks in semi-isolation... I’ve realised just how easy and often I tend to tap that debit card of mine when I’m living my ‘regular life’ off the leash.

Aimée Brown
Aimée Brown

8 minute read