{"id":4911,"date":"2012-01-30T07:16:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T07:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/?p=4911"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:04:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:04:11","slug":"giving-up-fags-makes-you-healthy-wealthy-and-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/giving-up-fags-makes-you-healthy-wealthy-and-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving up fags makes you healthy, wealthy and wise"},"content":{"rendered":"Just when your New Year\u2019s resolution starts to collapse into a duvet day you come across someone like Julie Parnell<\/a>, who turned her 40 a day smoking habit into a small fortune.\nJulie dreamed of running her own business but with no security and no home of her own it remained just that – a dream. She was also sending \u00a313 a day up in smoke on cigarettes – scary but true. The day she made the connection between the two was the day her luck turned. She already had a deposit saved for a home but didn\u2019t think she could afford the monthly payments – until she gave up smoking and realised that she was spending \u00a3400 a month on cigarettes – more than she needed to buy her own home.\nToday she is smoke free and about to launch her own business selling shabby chic china and homeware – plenty of which can be seen decorating her home in Northamptonshire bought from the ashes of her disastrous smoking habit.\nSo what other vices can we turn into virtues?\n\n
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An expensive habit.<\/p><\/div>\n\nBooze – an obvious contender – a two glass a day Chardonnay habit = \u00a0\u00a380 a month\n\nCoffee – one cup a day on the way to work = \u00a330 a month\n\nTakeaways – A weekly \u201cjust can\u2019t be bothered to cook\u201d Chinese = \u00a3100 a month\n\nGym membership – only a vice if you don\u2019t go! = \u00a340 a month plus\n\nWhat have I missed? Chocolate? Shoes? Let me know on Twitter @livingwithkids","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just when your New Year\u2019s resolution starts to collapse into a duvet day you come across someone like Julie Parnell, who turned her 40 a day smoking habit into a small fortune. 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