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One thing that most parents hope is that their children will go one better than them. I'm confident that mine will manage to do so. There's one easy win they can get under their belts for starters. Learning to drive. Despite being old enough to learn for two decades, it has never appealed to me. This is ...
Saving for my children's future is something that is very much on my mind at the moment. Life seems to have become progressively more expensive in recent years and, without wishing to get all doom and gloom, I don't think this trend is going to change in a hurry. Kids grow up so quickly and I ...
Since I went freelance, I've managed to make enough money to cover the bills every month, but have to admit that we haven't saved much. With that in mind, we've been looking at things we can cut down on. There's much that can be done to boost the bank balance. Here are seven things you can cut ...
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 ...
I recently discovered that there's such a thing as 'Ditch New Year's Resolutions Day'. Luckily for me, it has already passed - it's on 17 January, for the record - so I've avoided the temptation to break mine and am still just about keeping up with them. TSB have asked me to write about my new ...
Ever since we got together, Kate and I have always been saving for something and, with baby number three on the way, we've suddenly found ourselves saving for lots of things! Of course, there are a fair few items that we already have, but some haven't stood the test of time. Or, more accurately, the test of Dylan ...
I'm a strong believer in respecting my elders and listening to what they have to say and this is just what TSB's Golden Nuggets of Advice campaign is all about. I've always paid attention to financial advice from my parents - they've been there, seen it, done it and probably didn't waste any money on the T-shirt. So ...
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 ...
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.
