Hi All When my daughter was born, she was given money for Birth, Christening, Birthdays, Christmas etc and we invested in 2 fixed rate bonds for her, contributing a little ourselves. My then husband was signatory. We did the same for our son and I was signatory. We split up, I reinvested my sons money on maturity and then…
Hi. Does anyone have any suggestions? I want to start giving my 8 year old pocket money, but would like to get a book for him as well to explain the basics on saving, budgeting, banks, investing etc. Thanks.
First, I should confess that I don't have a baby and I'm not pregnant. What I have, is a yogurt-loving husband, who is ingesting too much sugar and putting on weight. In an effort to lose it off his middle, he is going low carb. We figured out that we can sneak in extra fat and veg in our food, by mixing a jar of organic…
I have been a member of a childcare vouchers scheme since the beginning with my employer IBM UK using the company Edenred. This was all working fine up until 2012 when we moved to a rural town in Scotland. There were no registered childminding facilities in the area that took childcare vouchers - in fact, there were no…
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