Money and Credit Card Tips for Single Parents

Single parents are often the hardest hit by a recession or simply by failing to manage their credit cards correctly. The following credit card tips provide you with useful information to curb your spending and start saving more money. After all, the last thing you want is to see your kids grow up without a decent education, food, and clothing.

A lack of money is often the grounds for much frustration and anger, let alone making you feel incredible miserable all the time. You are not alone. If you struggle to manage your finances, take a leaf out of the following suggestions and see if those can improve your situation.

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10 Simple Steps to Spring Clean your Home

Spring has sprung! The flowers are in bloom and the days are longer as they stretch lazily towards summer. Representing re-birth, spring is a great time for us to give our homes a shake up and cut the clutter in time for summer.

De-cluttering is a great mood booster – it can improve your health, your mind and your relationships with those you live with.

Often when we have a lot of clutter, it can seem like a daunting process to go everything and get it in order. Particularly if you are living in a house share and need the cooperation of others to sort your stuff. However, the results are worth it!

Just follow these simple steps to de-clutter your home this spring:

1. Enlist the support of family/house hold members to get stuck into the work with you. It’s important that those you live with are fully supportive of your organising efforts.

2. Start in any space. Grab five bin bags or boxes and label them Keep, Toss, Donate, Sell or Move.

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Escape to Singapore for a family friendly holiday

Only a short seven hour flight from the east coast of Australia and five from the west, Singapore offers families a plethora of unique attractions, events and activities to enjoy. Recently rated #8 on The Lonely Planet’s top city list for travelling with children (and the only Asian city to make the list), now is the perfect time to plan your visit to the Lion City.

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How to take the pressure down
9 Quick and Easy ways to take some pressure off yourself as a Parent

We all know that there are times when you feel stressed because of the many demands of being a parent. So give yourself permission to take some pressure off by trying these simple strategies:

• Recognise the difference between the things you can change and those you can’t change. Don’t waste time and energy worrying about things you can’t change and concentrate on what you have some control over.

• Look at concerns or problems or issues objectively. What is the worst that could happen if you allow it or overlook it?

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The struggle to juggle
68% of working mums want to ditch their jos and go it alone to make work-life balance better.

Recent survey by CareforKids.com.au revealed that while many employers seem to be fairly supportive of working mums in terms of part time, flexible hours and working from home; the daily struggle to successfully juggle child care, parenting and work is driving many mums towards home-based working options and to setting up their own businesses…  

Mums over daily struggle of the juggle!

Although 13 per cent of working mums said they don’t find juggling work and child care difficult at all, for many mums the daily struggle has just become too much: 45 per cent of working mums surveyed said they were completely “over” work and found juggling child care and commitment to work very difficult; 32 per cent said they are considering looking for alternative employment or changing their working hours to accommodate child care and 68 per cent are considering working from home or setting up their own business to improve their work-child care balance.  

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