Vouchers for Valentine’s Day – almost!

How were my finances this February? A shorter month meant less time to spend. Yay! However, my Trust’s archaic, inflexible payroll system meant I was paid less than intended. Boo! The result was a month of taut purse strings. Luckily Snoop taught me a few ways to hold on to some more of my earnings. And, unlike January, I could at least blame something outside my control for the imposed frugality this month.

I managed to save a bit on my regular spend, be sensible with my subscriptions and sorted Valentine’s Day with a little help from Snoop.

Vouchers: £6 extra on Amazon vouchers and 10% off Apple Vouchers (through Amazon) saved me a total of £26 when I would have spent the money with them anyway.

Subscriptions: Snoop alerted me to the rising Netflix and Disney+ subscriptions charges. The latter of which will not apply to old customers until August, which was a positive. But getting rid of subscriptions in lockdown seems like a heinous act of harm against both myself and my toddler.

Frugal romance: You can tell my wife is a lucky lady. The advertised interdependent relationship between romantic love and the 14th February strikes me as a little opportunistic. Don’t get me wrong, I love my wife more than words (or even cards, flowers or chocolates) can express. And I aim, with variable success, to be grateful every day. Being socially coerced once a year is unlikely to do much harm though and with three children causing mayhem in myriad ways, a treat whilst I was working a long day on the 14th was appreciated. 

Snoop highlighted a number of good offers for Valentine’s day - M&S flowers won but other cliché gift ideas were there aplenty. The anti-romantic pragmatic lover could have opted for the aforementioned vouchers but that would take a bolder person than myself.