{"id":1518,"date":"2011-05-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79.170.44.80\/livingwithkids.co.uk\/wheres-all-my-cash-gone\/"},"modified":"2019-01-04T10:35:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T10:35:47","slug":"wheres-all-my-cash-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wheres-all-my-cash-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Where’s all my cash gone?!"},"content":{"rendered":"I haven\u2019t even left the house yet and already I\u2019m down \u00a3105. Three pounds each lunch money for the girls –\u00a0 make that \u00a37, I\u2019m carrying one from yesterday because she refused to take the last pound\u00a0 in 2ps from the change jar. Add on a \u00a390 cheque for trombone lessons and \u00a38 for after school club for the two little ones.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nThat\u2019s almost 10%<\/strong> of our day to day \u201cfood, petrol, childcare\u201d budget for the month – what those of us raised on sitcoms like Butterflies and Absolutely Fabulous refuse to call \u201chousekeeping\u201d. And as a fully non-paid up member of the Ostrich Generation, who buries her head in the sand when it comes to pension provision, it is exactly the amount of money I should be squirreling away for my old age every month.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAccording to Friday\u2019s survey by HSBC on family pension provision (The Future of Pensions: the power of planning) 17% of us have no idea how we will fund our old age, and another 21% of us expect to\u00a0 rely on the state pension (cat food on toast anyone?).\r\n\r\nSo here\u2019s this week\u2019s challenge<\/strong>. Can I, like my friend Vix\u2019s Geordie granny used to do, put one pound for every ten aside for a rainy day? I\u2019ve got the jam jar but have I got the resolve? And am I alone in refusing to see further than next term\u2019s school journey when it comes to financial planning? Let me know by commenting below<\/strong>\r\n\r\nScary statistic of the day<\/u>\r\nFamilies with children are still struggling to save any money. According to a survey by insurance giant Aviva, childless couples managed\u00a0 to reduce their debts by \u00a31000 since Christmas, but those with two children are on average \u00a31000 worse off than they were in January and are now carrying debts of about \u00a36.200.\r\n\r\nDeal of the day<\/u>\r\nWaterstones<\/a> is offering 10% off all book orders over \u00a325 and 3% KidStart savings which will go towards your child\u2019s future. Shop through KidStart.co.uk to find out more.\r\n\r\nAmanda\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/strong>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amanda vows to stop spending and start saving with KidStart!","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3509,3349],"tags":[2072,2073,2074,2075,2068,2076,69,448,2077,2078,481,74,2070,2079,2080,66,1944],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-save-on-your-shopping-with-tips","category-household-savings-advice","tag-amanda","tag-amanda-blinkhorn","tag-blinkhorn","tag-challenge-working-mums","tag-deal","tag-lose","tag-money-2","tag-mother","tag-mummy","tag-save","tag-saving-2","tag-school","tag-shop","tag-spend","tag-statistic","tag-work","tag-work-at-home-mum"],"yoast_head":"\r\nWhere's all my cash gone?! 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