Living alone since 1996 and after 25 years of marriage, Irene is in the process of transitioning to living in a multi-generation co-housing community. She has two sons, will next year turn 70 and now seems like the right time to make big changes in her life. At the moment, […]
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With an increasing awareness of our impact on the environment, many of us are looking at how we can change our lifestyle in order to live sustainably. To help us, Matt Deighton, Managing Director at Sofas by Saxon, tells us how we can adapt our home interior by investing in
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It’s official! More people are living alone today than at any other time in history. The rise of solo living implies the greatest social change since the baby boom. Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that in 2022, 8.3 million people in the UK were living alone in
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With more people living alone today, is the cost of living higher for solo households compared to shared households and are brands paying enough attention to the importance of the solo pound? For many of us, however, the financial costs of living alone can sometimes contribute additional pressure to a
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Buying property abroad can be daunting, especially if you are doing it alone. Christopher Nye, from Property Guides, has been helping people buy holiday homes abroad since 2004. He was features writer and property hunter for A Place in the Sun and wrote guidebooks about buying abroad for Channel 4 and
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If there are a couple of things we can be sure of in these dynamic and exciting  times, it is that change is inevitable. We have more choice today, impacting all areas of our lives, compared to previous generations and this only looks set to accelerate and amplify. Consumer choice
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Cash ISAs are no longer the favoured investment option for many people. In fact, the number of people starting new cash ISAs has decreased dramatically, as lower interest rates and inflation have made saving cash a less sensible option. Cash ISAs have not been performing well, simply because the combination
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Modern fashion, new clothing trends and shopping fads all tend to be what is termed as fast fashion. Clothing is made and sold relatively inexpensively meaning that there is a constant merry go round of people discarding ‘old’ items in favour of the next fashion statement. It’s also what we
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The options on offer in the UK are expanding rapidly as the baby boomer crowd begin to embrace the concept of an active and purposeful retirement. Even if you’re a decade or more away from retirement age and living alone, it’s definitely worthwhile thinking about how you plan to transition.
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The inflation rate in the UK hit a high, marking a rise in the cost of living. It’s a bit of a triple whammy, with wage growth simultaneously slowing and as interest rates also rise. As a result, more are looking to save money. In a previous article, we looked at
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