The average cost of raising a child to the age of 21 is not a figure to be trifled with, as it amounts to hundreds of thousands of pounds (£231,843 if you want to be exact) and heavily impacts on the lifestyle of a family, who only want the best for their little one. Debt management service…
Author: Henry Elliss
Guest Post – Have You Considered A Career In Cleaning? How To Get Involved
Do you find there is no better feeling than seeing your home spotless? As a result, are you rarely seen without your rubber gloves on, to ensure that it always looks this way? Well, if you are that passionate about cleaning, then you could turn it into a career! It is a job that can…
Fatherhood: Review – Goodyear Making a Generation of Safer Drivers with VR
Now as you will probably have figured out by now, neither of my children are driving age yet – something I’m certainly thankful of, given their general craziness! But when they do get a little bit older and start wanting to learn to drive, you can bet your bottom dollar I’ll be a nervous wreck….
Guest Post – Inspiration for Your Man Cave Update
How’s your man cave looking right now? Is it a room designed according to your taste and dedicated to your favourite activities? Or, has it gradually become overrun with kids’ stuff? Well, if it’s not feeling like a place of your own, kick out the intruders and give your pad a makeover to rival these……
Fatherhood: Labour Room Advice for Dads
One of the strange quirks of parent blogging is the way your focus changes as your children grow and develop. Where I initially started blogging with a newborn, I’m now the father to 4 and 7 year olds, so the stuff I’m going through (and which I naturally focus on while blogging) is very different…
Guest Post – The new parents guide to Father’s Day
Father’s Day is one of the most special occasions in the first year of being a dad. Conveniently held in June so that dad can lounge in the sun and/or enjoy a barbecue in the sunshine, with a proximity to Mother’s Day that allows you to remind mum how you lavished her with presents just…
Guest Post – Managing your redundancy with a young family
Imagine this tumultuous two months: finding out your wife is pregnant and then being made redundant. That’s a worrying, chaotic and exciting cocktail. However, it’s one this writer can now smile about, because those three things happened to yours truly in late 2014. We knew that we had a good chunk of money arriving, but…
Guest Post – Why Iceland is the perfect place to take the kids this year
Forget Gran Canaria or Majorca, this year it’s time to pack up the cardigans and head off to the land of snow and well… ice for your 2016 getaway. Iceland is quickly becoming a hot spot for the adventurous family, looking to truly embrace the great outdoors and experience something new. Iceland is an ideal…
Fatherhood: 5 Lessons I’ve learnt by Living Lagom
Over the past few months, I’ve been working on a project with the friendly people from Ikea – Live Lagom. If you want some background on what I’ve been up to, you can read my first two posts (Living Lagom in 2016 with IKEA and Live Lagom – the Story so Far) but as the…
Guest Post – 5 saving tips for your first home
According to latest figures from Nationwide Building Society, getting on the housing ladder is extremely hard with those lucky enough to qualify for a 95 per cent mortgage still needing to find around £18,000 to buy in London, £11,000 to secure a home in the South East, £6,000 in the North and £7,000 in Wales…