Things I like to do to save time and money

Hello and welcome! thank you so far if you have been reading my blogs on this site. I do also write on Wordpress.com blog, and you can see all blogs and videos on my Pinterest site: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/thetypicalLondongal 

This blog is about things I do to save me money. 

So the first thing is on my bank cards and tend since Lockdown and Coronavirus is pay most things via debit, and so not carry too much cash but have some just as emergency, and set a budget on all items I buy or am willing to pay for an item. This to me is important because I find it disciplines me and helps me take charge over I buy and keeps me in control of my spending. 

When it comes to travel I tend to take buses rather than trains, and give myself plenty of time to get to wear I need to be, but then I will as a change get the train. If you do a lot of travel and have a Oyster card and do a lot of travel mainly buses you stop being charged. Those buses are TFL buses not country buses which many take cash and not card. 

I will use items I have washed on the draining board and not waste washing up other items to save on water. I will drink tap water and I will have one shower a day using the toilteries I have stocked on so I never run out of them. With toilteries I do have budget also. I use every bit of them, before replacing. 

Point cards of retailers I use regulary will use to save and use points on gifts or as a emergency. I buy items secondhand and welcome hand-me- downs which I think I have already blogged about, but great way to save and on items I know I am gonna use or wear. 

When I shopping in big large stores I will still make a list, and use it. If any items I forgot I jot it down as I shop. 

A list for me always required and ignore items near the checkouts. Do a price check on cost of items bought online and items sold in the stores and often it can be a saver to buy online and the other way around too. 

So I hope you find this blog interesting and helpful. 

Many thanks for reading, 

Carrie X  

Writing has filled up my life and so good I got back into it

On the bus today travelling back from looking after my son coming home from school, I read some of my current book and then came up with some more ideas for one of my books I am writing and I am so glad I got back into it, and is my life. 

Writing fulfills me as a person as it helps be in another world when I creating fictional books, and creating blogs and it has lead me to write a lot of books this year. Check them out on Amazon.com, and under my married name Carrie Challoner or maiden name Carrie Holmes or Carrie Lee Holmes. 

This isn't a plug, but just to let you know.

 

When it comes to writing it can be a long process but then when made into a book, it is so rewarding and I am thrilled that I still write since a kid and been like a secret best friend, as I would keep it quiet, until I discovered blogging and self publishing. 

My writing style is different and that what makes it personal and fulfilling. I not writing a bridget jones, its already been done, but used those books to inspire to tell my own stories. 

Finding your style is important and often I just write with no goal of how the book will finished, but again I find that energizing. It's my own work and if someone chooses it within the 1,000 of books out there, for me that is still a success and happy that someone has taken the time to read my books. 

There are parts where I don't like, such as editing, but I still get it done and I like to go through as I write and keep notes, and this helps me with that and I like writing blogs as it was through blog writing that I started writing stories and books again. I am sad that I lost a lot time when I stopped and now is a skill that pulls me through even tough days, So, if you want write the start as it is so uplifting when people start to notice your writing and follow you because of that. 

Many tbanks for reading, 

Carrie X