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It recently dawned on me that we've been treating clothing as a hidden expense. We keep a record of how much we spend on bills, food and so on but clothes had somehow slipped under the radar. Looking through bank statements, it seems we've been fairly thrifty but there's always room for improvement. The perfect opportunity arrived ...
Aviva is on a mission to help Britain save smarter. Last week I wrote about their great new Financial Personality Tool and was pleased to discover that my alter ego was The Oracle. This puts me in a good position to share some tips for how to save smarter. What I will say before I start ...
Are you a Super-Stretcher or more of a Day Dreamer? Aviva is on a mission to help Britain save smarter and has created a nifty tool to help you discover your financial personality. They asked me to try using it and share my findings. This kind of thing really appeals to my geeky nature, so I was very ...
The older I get, the more concerned I become about saving for the future. It's tough for my generation and I imagine it will be similar for Dylan and Xander when they grow up, so getting them off to a good start is very important to me. To help promote their new Under 19s Account, TSB asked ...
Many of us struggle to make ends meet these days and it can be tough for families in particular. With this in mind Legal & General has worked with The Rough Guide to produce The Rough Guide to Family Finances. Packed with tips for families, its aim is to make people feel more confident about budgeting ...
Saving - or at least trying to - is something that's important to all families. As we all know, though, it isn't easy at times. NatWest got in touch recently to tell me about its mission to make saving fairer - including offering the same savings rates to new and existing customers, as well as providing savings accounts with ...
I'm Tom Briggs. A proud dad of three and, somehow or other, the writer of a multi-award-winning dad blog.
I've been writing Diary of the Dad since 2010 and it's gone from a small hobby to my full-time job.
I still have the same enthusiasm for this blog as I did when I wrote my first post and hope you enjoy reading my musings as much as I do writing them.
