No/Low Buy Rules for 2026

I'm aiming for a no/low buy year this year! I've been needing to get in control of my finances for years now, and I'm finally feeling like 2026 might be the year! 

Goals for 2026

Fancy the new year starting on a Thursday eh? Bring back Monday. I'm feeling so pumped and ready for the new year! I've been working hard on myself the last few months of 2025 and I'm ready to level up in 2026.

December | The Final Chapter of 2025

What a month! I have been working so hard on myself this month. I have been making more of an effort to look good and feel good and it must be working because my colleague told me I was glowing on Christmas Day! I reckon it's my Vitamin C serum. I have been making more of an effort to dress nicer for work and days off lately, apart from one weekend where I was told I looked like a hobo. I can't complain though, because I did. 

Highlights of 2025

Over the course of the year, I have been making a point of listing every fun/good thing we've got up to this year! I recently read it out to Josh and he had forgotten about most of it! We've actually done so much this year and it's so nice to actually see it all in one place. Obviously I've only added what solely I have done, and what we have done together - if I included everything Josh did without me the list would be a lot longer!

Low Buy November/December | Week 1

I got paid on November 25th so I had to start work on my budgeting and no/low buying pretty early on! First thing I did was go through all of my direct debits/subscriptions and minus all of those plus childcare from my pay. All of that came to £360.63. Yikes. That's not even including paying for gas and electric because I do that as pay as you go. I also included the £75.50 I owed my sister for our family Christmas get together. New total -£436.13 from my pay.

December Goals

It's Chrrrriiiisstmaaassss! Our decorations have been up for a while, I finished my shopping weeks ago but the Christmas playlist is officially ON and I plan on finishing my wrapping this week. Although I'm working Christmas this year and my boy is with his dad, I am absolutely buzzing for it this year. 

Last week I was really on a downward spiral but I cancelled my overtime, spent the weekend with family and today I woke up with new motivation and feel really spurred on for the new month! Let's get it!

A Week in Machynlleth | Our Honeymoon

We had to wait a whole 3 months for our honeymoon but it was the most perfect week, so I'm not too mad about it. I was determined to have a cabin with a hot tub and I particularly wanted to go to Scotland but finding the right area at a good price was way harder than we anticipated! So we ended up settling for Wales. Well, I say settling, we do actually love Wales. I didn't get my hot tub though! Fuming. 

A Catch Up & November Goals

I'm really failing at blogging regularly again aren't I? I missed a whole month! September was a good month, I didn't complete all of my goals but I was feeling happy, I was working on a lot of different hobbies and was generally feeling good about life! 

The Beginning of Our Happily Ever After

Today marks 3 months since Josh and I got married! I'm no longer a miss and have upgraded to a full time Mrs. Our wedding day was absolutely perfect and I wouldn't change a thing. Well, actually, that's a lie. But there isn't much at all I would change. I wanted to publish this post a long time ago but unfortunately we did have to wait seven weeks for our professional photos to come back, and then I just kept forgetting about this post.

Before We Say I do | Our Engagement Photos

Does it feel a bit pointless posting our engagement photos now, as they were done a long time ago? A little bit. Am I going to do it anyway because they're gorgeous? Obviously.

September Goals

August had a fair amount of ups and downs. I've lost a friendship or two but honestly, I've made my peace with it. I also nearly quit my job, twice. On the plus-side, our honeymoon was incredible! I'll do a post specially for it this month.