Holiday club or grandparents? Paying for six weeks of summer childcare
Two working parents, six weeks off school. How we split the summer between holiday club, Grandma and Grandad …
What our energy really costs in summer, read off the smart meter
June on the in-home display: 214 kWh of electricity and barely any gas. Why our direct debit still …
Awful April: every bill that went up this week, line by line
Council tax, water, energy, phones. I put this April's rises next to the bills sheet to see what …
Car insurance renewal: quoted £612, paid £478
The renewal email landed with a number I didn't recognise. What had changed, how long the comparing took, …
January reset: every direct debit on one sheet of A4
First week back, I wrote every direct debit we pay on one sheet of paper. Fourteen lines, £1,481.58 …