Budget Living
Emergency Fund for Two and How Much We Keep Aside
Building an emergency fund for two sounds simple until you try to agree on the number.
We used to buy four or five tins of chickpeas a week, and every time we saw the bags of dried ones on the bottom shelf we wondered if we were wasting money.
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Budget Living
Building an emergency fund for two sounds simple until you try to agree on the number.
Weekend Trips
A normal weekend away loses most of Friday evening to travel and most of Sunday afternoon to getting home, so you end up with...
Together
One of you is awake at 6am and asleep by 10pm. The other does their best thinking at midnight and cannot function before 8.
Our Home
In a flat where the kitchen is three steps from the sofa and five from the bed, Friday's fish curry is still in the curtains on...
Kitchen Notes
We used to make rice by eye, which meant a pan of mush one night and half a bowl each the next, plus a sad tub of leftovers...
Budget Living
Every January we used to say this would be the year we went somewhere proper, and every July we ended up booking a last minute...
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