01 Tuesday Jul 2025
Sorry for the delay in posting my weekly Cheat Sheet, that I post at the beginning of each week.
This week it is all about Saving for the holidays:
These are free to download and print. I hope you find these useful.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
16 Monday Jun 2025
Hello and hello! Did you enjoy your weekend. It is now the start of a new week. I have been sitting out in the garden with a coffee and written in my journal and do feel so thankful that I am able to do that.
This weeks Cheat Sheet is giving shopping tips of what I have learned since building my Financial life and I have a Youtube Channel all about Money and Finance and my experiences of being in debt, saving and spending.
Check it out this link: https://www.youtube.com/@financialliving
Here is the cheat sheet:
These are free to download and print, and I post them every week and wanted to do this to help you build your life and since practicing these tips written my life has been better and “Lifestyle” which is my word this year, has been better.
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Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
28 Monday Apr 2025
Hello and welcome! It is nearly the end of another Month. Please check out my Newsletter for April, sharing what I got up to during Easter and what is coming up in terms of my content. Monthly Newsletter
I have been doing some training for this site, to feel better about yourself and your life and taking action in feeling good, rather then continuously stuck in a rut. I filmed videos for it too, got my last video to film this week and so check out my Pinterest board that I set up for it. https://uk.pinterest.com/thetypicalLondongal/everyone-can-build-a-castle/making-changes-to-your-life/
So in this Cheat Sheet are one minute tasks, as I always like to do these tasks daily and weekly and helps to break up these tasks, helps me to not feel bogged down and once done can breath instead of having a pile of coats everywhere, shoes putting dirt on your shoes, not getting dirt around the rest of the house, not being a eye sore and having more to do:
These Cheat Sheets are free to download and if you’d like to be kept up to date of my blogs then please subscribe. Please check out another blog I wrote today on one of my other sites: What can you learn from Sport? | Sports and Fitness Coaching I also do vlogs, check out my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@typicallondongal
Have a good week ahead.
Many thanks for reading
Carrie X
07 Monday Apr 2025
Hello! I hope this week sees you well if you are off with your kids on holiday. If you are new to this site then welcome! Each Monday I post free printables to help you with various areas, when we take on so much. I began these through when I worked because I found them great to look at to give advice and help and wanted to do this too to help coach and see people getting there plans completed and achieved.
This weeks is all about Where You Can Save Money as money is tight at the moment. I watch a lot of financial videos to help me handle my money and do have a Youtube channel too, which is all about managing my money to help you manage yours. Check out this link: https://www.youtube.com/@financialliving
Here is this weeks Cheat Sheet:
This month I am doing some more training. Check out my last blog on this site: breaking-barriers
It will be free and will making videos and blogs if you are looking to Make Changes to your life and feel better about yourself and your life and will be writing another blog for the programme this week.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
24 Monday Feb 2025
Hello and happy Monday! How was your half term? Did you go on holiday or had days out? My son went to a holiday club and my son got his hair cut with his dad as he has few free ones to use.
I thought this Cheat Sheet should be about Finance as this can cause us anxiety when it comes to school holidays as if you are like me a tight budget I have to plan ahead and because my son loves his holiday club at last minute was able to book him to go another day.
These are free to download and print off. If you’d like to be informed of when I post on this site then please subscribe and I do have a Youtube channel called Financial Living where I post videos about how manage my money to help you manage yours.
Have a good week and many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
17 Monday Feb 2025
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getting it done, getting your life together, happiness and wellbeing, happy living, having good routines
Hello it is Monday once more and time for a new free printable of tips on Getting your life together that you may find useful and simple but effective.
These are free to download and print.
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Many thanks and have good week ahead.
Carrie X
26 Thursday Dec 2024
Posted in Celebrating, Financial Living, Goal setting, Monthly posts, new year, Printables
Hello hello! I hope you had a good Christmas. For me it was so nice and chilling and now we are coming to the end of 2024 it is time to plan for the new year (2025).
This is the last Newsletter that I post for 2024 and sharing my plans for 2025. It is time to set new goals, go through our finances and planning for other special holidays and events and making some changes in our lives. I am going to be doing a Fundraising walk and have linked in my Newsletter my JustGiving page as I am doing it for the British Heart Foundation.
These are free to read and download, so you can print them off and share.
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Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
25 Wednesday Dec 2024
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book review, Books, christmas, donating, helping others, homeless, Romance, Volunteering, Winter Wellness, writing
It is Christmas day and was able to sleep in for a bit and watched BBC 1 and watching Breakfast TV they were showing volunteers and places where the those that are sleeping rough, its called the “Free Hotel” and have people on Christmas day helping to look after those who may be struggling and there are people who will be lonely, not see anyone.
I love volunteer work and do a radio show at Epsom Hospital, which is a charity and I love it. So rewarding and there are people at Christmas who have no place to go and it is heartbreaking. I believe that noone should be sleeping in the streets and have a roof over their heads and a bed to sleep in and so if you can give to a homeless shelter, volunteer for the local hospital or there are those that knit things for the children in the hospitals, then you are making a huge difference to somebody’s life. Even if it is a couple of hours. Since working on my local hospital radio, I want to do more volunteer work.
This is not to make you feel guilty in anyway and that you have to do voluntary work. Since doing Youtube it has helped me to connect with people who to help others, like Mel Robbins, Kate Kaden, Fearn Cotton and inspires me to help others too by sharing the things that are important to me, that may also be important to you, via my vlogs: Typical London Gal, my blogs too, along with my books and creating different projects and programmes like this one, to make a difference. I am changing one of my books as I am writing a series called Mum&Me and got another book being proof read that I want to publish in 2025 called When Mothers Are Real and its given me such a sense of pride and joy.
It for me is like giving back into society and being grateful that I am not sleeping in the streets and have a gorgeous son and family. Yes there are times when it hasn’t felt like Christmas, treating it like a normal day, but seeing people struggle because of events and that life doesn’t stop just because it is Christmas. People can still get sick. My son is getting over a Chest Infection, I’ve felt a bit rough and my husband is unwell, but we can go home to a house and afford food and gifts for Christmas where others can’t and watching those who have created a place for people who are homeless that have nothing makes me appreciate my life and I now each month give the Trussell Trust, which is the organisation for Foodbanks and hate seeing people struggle.
So I hope you okay and can have a Christmas dinner, do gifts and enjoy this time of year.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
17 Tuesday Dec 2024
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christmas, family, Getting through the winter, happiness and wellbeing, holidays, new wellness programme, new winter programme, travel, wellness blog, winter
So today it is an example of a gloomy day and it effects when not having enough light. I use these days to be cozy, make sure I have on some good woolly clothes, have a hot drink and then have a nice hot bath in the evening and read. I like to watch a bit of TV and making staple meals, like Sausages and mash, Pie and mash, casseroles, stews and roasts.
It is good to get out a Scented Candle, making sure they are on shelf that your kids can’t get too and listen to some chill out music or any music that makes you feel content and take some time to write or watch some TV and create a good mindset even if it is dark outside and the one thing I love is putting on a pair of woolly socks.
What gives you peace is it going out and visiting the shops. Are you desperate to see friends but live too far apart, so feel isolated?
There are places you can go to see people and since doing Volunteering work for my local hospital radio station I have met some great people and having good social interaction and met a lady today who also volunteers at the hospital administering medication. I did some courses at an adult community college and was a great to meet people.
I also like time for myself and hate having small talk and like my coffee I have each week in a coffee shop. planning and write notes for my blogs, books and videos. I like to have a good clear out too and Boy George for example does DJing, singing and in his spare time creating art. My aunty who is retired started doing a local class in flower arranging and made some lovely table settings for me when I got married and love hearing stories of people, in magazines, that have made what was a hobby into a small business. There is plenty of opportunity to go round. In the winter it is good to have a hobby as it can take your mind off the dark days and you can get SAD lamps too help you get a bit of light and I love fairy lights.
If you are struggling financially then you can go to a a Food Bank and it can feel shameful but honestly they are good places and you can have a cup of tea and socialise with others who are also struggling and I donate each month to support families visiting the Food Bank, for support.
With Christmas it can be more of struggle to afford food and presents and then Food Banks can provide food for you and if you like to donate toys or a gift for a family then you can donate them to go to a families who are struggling to put food on the table and keeping warm and still have a good Christmas or cook them a meal or let them join you, if it is a neighbour, a relative or a friend.
Also do something different each winter. Like visiting different places, like a friend of mine went to LA one year or go out for Christmas dinner with friends and family. My dad and my uncles, along with my cousin would go to the pub on Christmas day whilst my Nan cooked and my mum, aunties and I would play a game and yes be sensible as I don’t condone Drink Driving, but have a meet up with friends and often my relatives would go out to the a local park to play.
So you can enjoy winter by choosing what will make you have a good winter rather than dreading it.
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Many thanks for reading
Carrie X
21 Thursday Nov 2024
Posted in Celebrating, Financial Living, health and wellbeing, Living, Love, Weekly posts
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celebrating Christmas, christmas, community, everyone can build a castle, family, foodbank, happiness and wellbeing, news, Series of blogs, sharing the love
It is coming close to the season of cheer and joy, but for some it can be the worst time of the year if they have experienced trauma or a loss of someone. This can affect our feelings. When my spark had gone for Christmas it made me feel that I couldn’t wait for it be over. I felt under pressure because of my gift will not be good enough and how much I pay matters, but now I know that is not true.
Now I love it and the birth of my son has helped and loves it and it taking it step by step. I wrote a long time ago about changing traditions: Creating new traditions So I go for a walk, prep for dinner or my husband does that and just chill.
So now any celebration I acknowledge it and set into play good days out, seeing family and going for a drink (remember safety) can help with creating memories that my son can cherish and the tables turn when you have kids, like when my Grandad died (my mums dad), she’d come to us for Christmas dinner rather than her cook, we then went back over to hers when she was in Sheltered Housing, being elderly so couldn’t go we went to hers so she wasn’t on her own and that we still celebrated as a family.
It is time take it easy and not allow it to beat you over the head of can’t afford it because we think the more expensive it is the more reassured that our family or friends know you love them and we get into debt which causes you to fear it. Your presents and time is enough and not about causing guilt or anxiety because you have lack of funds and if you need support than ask. Going to the Food Bank is not to make you devalued but is about getting support so you can still celebrate Christmas and I feel strongly that we shouldn’t have family needing to go to a foodbanks because all families should be given support by our government and reducing cost and Foodbank isn’t a dirty word and there is no price tag when it comes to love.
I each month now I give to the local Foodbank to help families. This is not an ad, but how I feel about the world and love to give and we should all be helping each other so we can have happiness and enjoy the festive season.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
Everyone can build a castle 
