So I wanted to take that approach and put something into the ‘bank’ - it could be something tiny, like the micro annoyances that drag my day down, or something quite significant, like cleaning my car.”.
Clare, who lives in Bath with her husband Phil and their three children (aged 10, six and 18 months), has paid off her debts and even trained as a financial coach to help others take control of their spending.
“In September I realised that I had, yet again, been trying to buy solutions - it might be the quickest way to deal with something but it wasn’t working and was causing serious problems.
What followed was her new challenge, “100 days of making life a tiny bit better (without buying anything new)”, which she documented on Instagram.
She realised that she gained a sense of accomplishment by tackling the niggly household tasks that had been on her mind, from glueing two halves of a broken ceramic coaster back together, to creating a slow cooker lid out of foil to replace the one she’d previously dropped and smashed.
