Harri Pierce

Online Community Manager

Harriet is TotallyMoney's Online Community Manager and an avid blogger herself. As a 20-something living in London, she's an expert at living life in the Big Smoke on a small budget. She writes about penny-pinching in the capital over at London Cheapskates. She's also known as 'the girl who made the tea lights' on Channel 4's SuperScrimpers.

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TotallyMoney Blog Carnival #66

by Harri Pierce on May 14,2012

This week’s TotallyMoney Blog Carnival was hosted by Jessica at The Debt Princess. Head over to The Debt Princess for lessons in what NOT to do with your finances.

Remember to submit your posts for next week’s carnival, which may be picked by PK over at Don’t Quit Your Day Job.
Editor’s picks
One Money Design looks at …

This week’s pick of personal finance posts

by Harri Pierce on May 11,2012

I’m counting down the minutes until I can eat again.

This week I’ve been taking part in the Live Below the Line challenge – surviving off less than £1 worth of food every day for five days. It’s been an interesting week and I confess I haven’t been all that with it, I’m afraid. Anyway for tips on how to …

Lessons from living below the line

by Harri Pierce on May 11,2012

For the past week my boyfriend and I have taken part in the Live Below the Line challenge, living off less than £1 worth of food per day. The challenge revealed to us the difficulties faced by the world’s poor, who live on less than $1.25US each day. It also put into harsh perspective the difficulties faced by people in …

What it’s like to live below the extreme poverty line

by Harri Pierce on May 9,2012

I’m grumpy.

Lethargic and grumpy. Embarrassingly even my boss has noted a cattier edge to my voice. In meetings my mind is drifting off into fuzzy oblivion. I’m slow and unproductive. On my way home yesterday, I went the wrong way on the tube.

Why am I like this? Well it might have something to do with the fact I’m surviving on …

TotallyMoney Blog Carnival #65

by Harri Pierce on May 8,2012

This week’s TotallyMoney Blog Carnival was hosted by Tom over at Balance Junkie. Head over to Balance Junkie for a hybrid mix of Tom from Canadian Finance Blog, Jim from Retire Happy Blog and Kim Petch.

Remember to submit your posts for next week’s carnival, which may be picked by Jessica over at The Debt Princess.
Editor’s Picks
Miranda …

This week’s pick of personal finance posts

by Harri Pierce on May 4,2012

As bleary eyed vote counters finish totting up the scores and the local election results come trickling in, we’ve turned our thoughts to what the results will mean for your finances. Will your council tax go up? Will your spending be affected? Our economics bod Cliff has all the answers.

Disheartened by the election or the chilly weather? Don’t be! …

TotallyMoney Top Blog Awards #7

by Harri Pierce on May 2,2012

As May swings around (where is this year going?!) now’s the time to delve into our TotallyMoney Top Blogs List to reveal the bloggers making the biggest splash in the personal finance blogosphere. At the beginning of every month, we look at the bloggers who have made the greatest improvements to their social reach, popularity, traffic and rank over the past 30 days. We measure performance using no less than …

TotallyMoney Blog Carnival #64

by Harri Pierce on Apr 30,2012

This week’s TotallyMoney Blog Carnival was hosted by Dave over at Debt Black Hole. Take a look at Dave’s site for personal finance with some geek chic thrown in for good measure!

Remember to submit your posts for next week, which may be picked by Tom over at Balance Junkie.
This week’s editor’s picks
Evan from My Journey …

This week’s pick of personal finance posts

by Harri Pierce on Apr 27,2012

The UK’s been a bleak place over the past week. Rubbish weather coupled by an equally rubbish economic outlook has left us feeling a little down in the dumps. Our economics expert Cliff has taken a good look at the latest economic figures to work out exactly what it all means for consumers.

Need a pick me up? I thought …

TotallyMoney Blog Carnival #63

by Harri Pierce on Apr 23,2012

This week’s TotallyMoney Blog Carnival was hosted by Jacob at My Personal Finance Journey. Take a look at Jacob’s site for simple tips for frugal living and financial myth busting.

Remember to submit your posts for next week, which may be picked by Dave at Debt Black Hole.
Editor’s Picks
Emily from Evolving Personal Finance takes a look at …

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