I've found that money-saving advice from people who are not actively living on a budget tends to be condescending as all hell.
Do they mean well? Yes. Are they actually helpful? Not so much.
There's an article floating around (possibly on yahoo, or msn or similar) which tells the reader how to save up the deposit for a house in 2 years by drastically cutting down on their outgoings. It gave me a right good laugh. It was full of such gems as "Make do with one car", "Don't take a foreign holiday this year" and "Move in with the in-laws".
Uh.. What?
We don't even have one car.
We have never taken a foreign holiday. We could barely afford a weekend in York when we went last year.
Neither of our sets of parents have the space, or the money for us to stay with them either.
Frankly, the whole article was laughable, and clearly aimed at someone with considerably more disposable income than us. Where is the real advice, from real people who live on slender means? There are a few blogs, which are useful, and even inspiring but they're few and far between.
Hopefully my little blog can be added to the ranks of "useful advice", rather than fluffy nonsense.
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