Amanda Blinkhorn is a freelance journalist who has been writing about money, family life and everything in between since she was 19.

She blogs here almost every day and writes the Money Matters finance column in Candis magazine as well as for The Sunday Times and other newspapers and magazines. She lives in London with her four children aged between 8 and 19. She has almost finished training to be an adult literacy teacher and will qualify this summer, if she ever finishes those pesky essays.


Check out some of Amanda’s recent blogs below…

In the money

In the money

Is financial savvy pre-programmed in some kind of genetic way?

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In the swim

In the swim

The only running Doughnut now seems to do is in his sleep

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Not so plain sailing

Not so plain sailing

Strokes run in my family like fault lines through San Francisco

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Preparing paradise

Preparing paradise

I have finally run out of excuses. It’s time to tackle the garden

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Double trouble

Double trouble

44 per cent of parents can’t afford to put on a birthday party for their children

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Money magic

Money magic

Happy New Financial Year, but what does a new financial year mean?

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Spring cleaning

Spring cleaning

We liberated the house of five bin bags full of rubbish and eight more to Oxfam.

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Leading by example

Leading by example

April’s here at last – though you wouldn’t know it from the bitterness in the air

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Never too old to learn

Never too old to learn

The Easter holiday means two things; Easter eggs and eggsams...

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Specs appeal

Specs appeal

For years I got away with being a closet glasses wearer...

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Spring, Smurfs and safaris

Spring, Smurfs and safaris

Time to hide eggs in the daffodils and plant sunflower seeds

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Family Budgets

Family Budgets

The one thing studying the budget taught me is how little I actually know

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