Looking After Your Pennies is an eco-friendly personal finance blog written and managed by Charlotte Jessop.
I write on a variety of topics including frugal lifestyle, eco-friendly living, money-making ideas and generally how to make your money go further.
My aim is to help you create your money success story whether you need to embrace a frugal lifestyle or start your own business.
But we do this with one eye on the environment. I will guide your to make strong financial decisions, but without further consequence to planet.
Whatever stage you are at, Looking After Your Pennies is here to help.
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Saving Money
- Challenges of Budgeting and How to Overcome Them
We’ve all been there. You create your budget, think you’ve done an amazing job, and then just a couple of weeks later something happens and you give up on the whole thing. Budgeting is challenging. It takes time to get it right. I’ve been budgeting for years now and as my life has changed I …Challenges of Budgeting and How to Overcome Them Read More »
- Financial Wellbeing: what is it and how to improve itThere has been a rise in the number of conversations people are having around financial wellbeing. It is great to see, but we still have a long way to go before this becomes a mainstream topic. With more and more people experiencing financial strain during the pandemic, the need for practices to address poor financial …
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- The Best Money Management Resources on Etsy [AD][AD] With Black Friday just a couple of days away, and Christmas just around the corner we are all thinking about spending money. But what if you could buy something that actually helped your financial situation instead? I’ve rounded up some of the best money management resources on Etsy from spreadsheets to printables to physical …
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- What you need to know about pensions [AD]This article is written in collaboration with PensionBee. [AD] For many of us, retirement can feel like it is a long way off. You might have another 20, 30 or even 40 years before you reach the current state retirement age. But the thing is the earlier you start thinking about your retirement the better …
- Budgeting made easy with Money Dashboard [AD][AD] You all know that I am a fan of budgeting. There is a real power in the well-thought out budget and I think that everyone should have one. For those of us that have been budgeting for a while, we may be used to the idea of a few numbers scribbled down on a …
- [AD] Save hundreds with Bill Buddy + COMPETITION[AD] You all know that I love saving money. One of my favourite ways to keep living our frugal lifestyle is to make sure that our bills are as low as they can be. Keeping an eye on your bills and changing providers should be a routine part of managing your money, but it doesn’t …
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Making Money
- How to Significantly Reduce Investment-Related FeesOur world isn’t getting any cheaper. And yet, mainstream investment firms are making it harder for us to get ahead. They charge hordes of fees, which they often bury in legalese. Consequently, your money doesn’t grow nearly as much as it should. Fortunately, emerging fintech startups has begun to minimize these charges. Below, we’ll educate …
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- Budgeting made easy with Money Dashboard [AD][AD] You all know that I am a fan of budgeting. There is a real power in the well-thought out budget and I think that everyone should have one. For those of us that have been budgeting for a while, we may be used to the idea of a few numbers scribbled down on a …
- How to make an entire blog in less than 24 hoursWhen I first this website, it took me hours. No scrap that, possibly days, months and even years to get it right. Oh, how I wish I knew then what I know how. But it hasn’t gone completely to waste. Inspired by Emma Drew’s book “How to make a profitable blog in 90 days”, I …
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- Getting Started With Selling Writing Services On FiverrIt has been a few months since I started selling writing services on Fiverr. Since then I have made hundreds of pounds on the platform. It has also led to lots of people asking me how it works and how you can be successful. Therefore, I felt it was time to write this post …
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- How To Make Money From TutoringThis might be the most overdue post I’ve ever written. I started tutoring over a decade ago when I first started training to be a teacher and I have been making money from tutoring ever since. I once read that teaching is the second most likely profession to become millionaires. Please don’t ask me where …
- 5 Travel-Friendly Side Hustles You Can Do Around The WorldWe are six months into our around the world trip. Before we left we set a budget. We knew how much we had and how far it needed to go. However, we also knew that we could make money along the way too. Back home, I had several side hustles and spent time nurturing …
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Eco-friendly Living
- Kitchen Organisation For The Eco-Friendly HomeWho doesn’t love an organised kitchen eh? Knowing where everything is and being able to lay your hands on it quickly. You can do this with an eco-friendly kitchen too. There are lots of ways you can organise your kitchen to be efficient whilst using eco-friendly products and solution. I’ve used a lot …
- Grow New Food From The Food In Your FridgeRecently, I found myself wanting to fill my home with house plants. I think that a large part of this was social media and I was being severely influenced. Anyway in my pursuit of cheap house plant solutions, if found that there are a whole load of foods that you can grow from the …
- A Complete Guide To Cloth NappiesIf you are an eco-friendly type with a baby on the way, or maybe even a parent with a newfound love of the environment, then you might want to think about cloth nappies. There are lots of eco-friendly baby products on the market. But cloth nappies or reusable nappies, are one of my favourites. …
- 8 Great Eco-friendly Products You Can Buy On Etsy To Support Small Businesses [AD][AD] In these hard financial times, many small business and self-employed sellers are struggling. Etsy is a hub of creativity and made almost entirely of independent sellers. That’s why Etsy recently launched its #StandWithSmall to encourage buyers (or at least those of us still able to earn money) to buy from the little guys. …
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- 4 Eco-friendly Products To Survive The LockdownWhen I was walking around Tesco last week, it was clear that there was a shortage of some products. Food was a bit low, but many personal household items were non-existent. The internet is full of jokes about how it is hard to get hold of toilet roll, but there are also other issues …
- Why I Stopped Using ShampooNo, I’m not dirty. Yes, I do like saving money. No, this wasn’t me taking things too far. And yes, I would recommend it. Does that answer your questions? Two years ago, I made the decision to stop using traditional shampoos and conditioners. I found a big movement online called “no-poo”, where people choose …
