Itching to take to the slopes but baulking at the prices? No worries. From cheap resorts, to accommodation, to lift passes, to transport, to lessons, we have the ultimate guide to saving on your ski and snowboard holiday this year.
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Ski resorts and airlines start rubbing their hands with glee over the Christmas, New Year, school holiday and Easter breaks and ratchet up their prices. If you can, make your trip outside the holiday season. No choice other …

This week’s TotallyMoney Blog Carnival was hosted by Canadian Personal Finance.

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My mum used to make a big tray of flapjacks almost every week when I was a kid, so they’ll always be one of my ultimate comfort foods. They are so easy to make too, but that means that even my most kitchen-shy friends don’t appear that impressed when I’ve whipped up a batch and they come round.

So I’ve devised an ingeniously simple way to make your flapjacks look much more impressive than just gooey, oat-y squares from a tin – here’s how.

You’ll need all the usual ingredients for flapjacks:

175g butter

175g golden syrup

175g golden caster sugar

350g porridge oats (I prefer …

What a week!

The kids fell like dominoes with horrible colds and I crashed in the early hours of Monday with bouts of coughing and sneezing so I took my leave and worked from home feeling very sorry for myself and in need of a little edible comfort…

I vaguely recall an old wives tale which goes something like ‘feed a cold and gorge a fever’ so I thought this was my green light to stock up my reserves in a bid to get well but, to be honest, I really didn’t feel like …

Moira Stewart is currently haunting my dreams. Self-employed people are terrified of stern-faced Moira. She gets in your head when you’re just dropping off to sleep. She wakes you in a cold sweat at 6am. And then she lies to you and tells you that ‘tax doesn’t have to be taxing’.

Yet the self assessment form is the more complicated form on the PLANET.

There are so many little caveats. Tons of them. Especially when it comes to things you can get in trouble for. Expenses is …

HURRAH! January is nearly over folks. Here’s to a brighter February, clear of the Christmas financial hangover and the woes of dastardly tax returns. As January payday comes around, we’ve been taking a look at the top 5 money saving travel sites, the 2 savings account you MUST have and how to impress at work.

Other highlights this week…

First to the carnivals. Squirrelers were kind enough to feature FruGal’s post on cheap carpet cleaning tips in this week’s Festival of Frugality. This week’s TotallyMoney Blog …

Phew. We’ve made it past the third Monday in January, unofficially known as the most depressing day of the year. Now that’s over and done with things are all on the up… except when I look out of the window it’s damp, overcast and cold. Little surprise then that this is the time of year when we rush to book a holiday.

Whether it’s winter sun you’re after or you want to hit the slopes, getting away at this time of year can do you the world of …

On Saturday I completed Tenner Week – successfully! My spending for the week came in at a grand total of £9.16, which was two coffees in the park while walking the dog, and the rest was spent in the supermarket getting ingredients for a cake that I was baking.

I’m totally chuffed that I managed to win this challenge, I didn’t really think I’d be able to do it. It helped that I had a busy week work-wise, so I wouldn’t have been spending money socialising even if it wasn’t …

Living over in England Australia is not only lonely being away from all my family in Australia, but it’s tough on the wallet as well. I can’t eat all the food in mum and dad’s fridge and have to pay for food and beer myself. Most times London prices mean I have to do things on the cheap. That got me thinking about Australia Day coming up on January 26 and how it’s just not right celebrating it in the cold, wet, rain. Australia Day is normally a day of …