”Last year there was a rise in interest in a budgeting trend called “cash stuffing” – or the cash envelope system – made popular on social media. This involves dividing cash into envelopes labelled into different categories such as groceries, bills, a rainy day and Christmas shopping. The idea is that it helps cash-strapped households keep track of their spending and saving."

Exactly what my hard-up mum and dad used to do back in the ‘50s and ‘60s except, instead of envelopes, they used tins labelled e.g. ‘Gas’, ‘Electricity’, ‘Rent’, etc., etc.

As the saying goes, “There’s nothing new under the sun…” (Ecclesiastes, 1:9)