January budget blues

I’ve been away for a while on a kind of blogging hiatus. I have moved house twice, started a new job and begun a whole new adventure. Six months in and I have just about settled into my new home in a new area, met some great people and learned a lot. I am still making bread, baking cakes and perpetually hunting for bargains. This is my first post of 2013 – Happy New Year!

And with a new year comes plenty of new (new year, new you as they say) but it also comes with plenty of impending payments – car tax, car insurance and rent among them. Who else has a mild dislike for January, the longest month of all?

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