Family life

This year's World Book Day is Thursday 6 March, and many parents will already have 'costume stress', as you strive to find the right outfit for your child, while the cost goes up and up. Even handmade World Book Day costumes can be pricey – but if you’re still on the hunt for the perfect cheap World Book Day costume, fear not. There are plenty of ways to nail World Book Day on a budget.

The Money Moral Dilemma, or MMD, where we ask you to debate and discuss cash-related conundrums sent in by your fellow MoneySavers, has been a staple of MoneySavingExpert's famous Money Tips Email for 17 years now, making its debut on 25 October 2006, when a then fresh(er)-faced Martin asked: 'What's fair rent for working children living at home?'

It's my Mum's 69th birthday on Wednesday 5th February. Well, it would've been had we not lost her at 55 to cancer. We've been forced to celebrate many occasions without her for over a decade, but this year I've decided it's time for me to celebrate my MoneySaving Mum and how she taught me all I know.