How to beat the budget

They are calling it an emergency budget and I don’t blame them the country’s finance is in a mess and needs to be tackled ASAP but what does this really mean to me? I know that later today and tomorrow there will be all kinds of commentary on TV, articles in the newspaper and a helpful little guide will be put through my letter box which all helps to explain to me what effect this will have on my personal finance.

I must now be open and confess that I will still struggle to see what it will do TO me (as I don’t believe it will do anything FOR me) but what I can say is that “disposable income” is something that I use to have and is now a definite have not. So what is a girl to do? Do I stop buying my little treats, a pair of shoes, possibly a fantastically gorgeous bag or the beautiful set of bath towels at John Lewis, all the little things that motivate me to get up and go to work? Probably yes as the country tightens it’s belt so to must I tighten mine (and it will be last seasons belt – to add to my misery) but I did find a way of keeping something fantastic going – that is the girls night out – Oh yes we won’t be stopping that!

With things the way they are we will probably have to meet more often so that we can become more of an emergency budget support group. Now for us as a group we like to meet over a great meal and a bottle of good wine at our favourite hotspot (I just love the word hotspot but actually it’s just our favourite local restaurant). How I hear you say if you are tightening up on your finance can you afford to meet up and eat out more now than you did before? Answer; simple this is all about more is less – you see we can get up to 50% off from our local restaurant which means we can go more often and still spend the same as we have in the past.

Clever really! So now you can too at www.realtimeseating.com just sign up and enjoy the fact that you will still be actively socialising and being prudent! Now that is what I call ingenuity!!

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