Now that I am a mum, I find our money doesn't last as long as it did, which makes sense, but it got me thinking about how I am managing for us to still save up to buy our own house and how other people could use my way to save money themselves. I have made a post a while back on how to budget , which plays a key role in how I save money now. Any money we want to spend in the fortnight is accounted for in our budget. After creating our budget, I work out how much money we have leftover after bills each pay. Say we make $1,300 a week, but have to pay $1,000 a week on bills (Random numbers as an example). It would mean we have $300 leftover each week to put into savings. I make a list of everything we need to buy or spend money on soon in order of urgency, and make sure that I include an overestimate price so that we are not short when it comes to needing to spend the money. I also include when we need to spend the money by in the case of appointments etc. Take the car to...