We’re nearly half way through December already but here is my belated November update. As regular readers will be aware I have been doing up the bathroom which is taking up 99% of my waking hours and thoughts right now, so […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Welcome again fellow renewable energy aficionados! Following my post the other day on the performance of our Solar PV Panels over the last year there were a few questions and comments which highlighted the fact that there is still […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’ve been our “new” house a year tomorrow! Some of you may remember me mentioning one of the things that attracted us to the house was that it had a Solar Panel or Solar PV (Photo Voltaic) installation, so […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You can either spend your free time doing unproductive or even wasteful things such as watching TV, shopping, and using £10 notes as toilet paper or you can spend them doing things that will either save or make you […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In today’s Brain Dump we are covering such exciting topics such as Air Source Heat Pumps, Boilers, and the government scheme called the Green Deal Home Improvement Fund (GDHIF). When we moved house in October we didn’t really consider […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’re going back to basics in this post and having a look at the one of the most pervasive, yet somehow strangely overlooked “money sucks” your poor old current account has to deal with: Regular Monthly Bills. You all know how it goes, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happynomics/Happinomics, or the economics of happiness, or as real economists like to call it: “the economics of subjective well-being“, is a very important topic to your average Firestarter, because ultimately that is what becoming financially independent via the route of frugality […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A bit of a self-indulgent post, especially considering I haven’t posted for a while, but hopefully you will understand why when you hear that we have finally moved house! It seems like an eternity since I posted my, with hindsight […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Can you feel the electricity in the air!?! Cos that’s what we’re talking about today! We are roughly a year into our relentless quest to optimise our expenses and after a while you do tend to think that you’ve done […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As St Jude’s Storm is about to batter the South coast of England (and it sounds pretty horrendous out there already!) I thought I would talk about another mini storm that is about to hit in a different area, that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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