Oh my days another sun article they seem to love her.
Fails to say she's not brought a house
She dirent save 25k in 1 year
That she gifted a holiday and other things so she personally didn't have to buy.
A MONEY-SAVVY mum who saved £25,000 by doing a ‘no-buy’ year has revealed how YOU can save thousands of pounds in 2022. Lara Joanna Jarvis, who found fame on YouTube thanks to her budgeting t…
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Fuck me. Her tips are:
- "Ditch the holidays". But she hasn't. Not only is she not ditching the holidays, she's getting free ones?!
- "Shop your wardrobe". Hers is overflowing. This is great in principle, but it seems like she is always buying new clothes and she constantly shows decluttering videos where we can she has more clothes than my entire family has put together.
- "ditch the daily coffees". Sounds like the boomer "you don't have any savings because you buy too many lattes". Who IS still buying those £5 coffees every day of the year? She reckons you can save £
1,186.25 on coffee alone and I find that absurd.
- Paid surveys My family do this religiously. They have not made £600 a year between them, no way.
- Cashback. I find it hard to believe anyone is getting 3k back. I use mine for everything, the biggest rewards are switching bills and insurance. i do mine every year but I've made £1000 in 3-4 years ish. This suggests you're already spending A LOT of money to get the cashback.
Then there's 6k in "dinner plans". She forgot to factor in babysitting and stuff when she says "dinner is £50 a week if you eat out". A meal is easily £30, if not more, so the true figure for most parent couples would be a lot more per week, or they'd do it much less frequently.
And 6k on holidays. Apparently that's for 4 people and 2 holidays per year. Like, maybe do some actual work and suggest cheaper holidays? And maybe 1 a year? Or every other? I find it insulting that she's suggesting to people who follow her to actually save money because they need to go on less holidays when they're probably not able to afford a holiday, let alone 2, in the first place.
That whole piece is misleading, patronising, and lazy.