MT Week - Money Rules: Track all your spending

Do you know how much you’re spending every month? And on what?

I dare say that most of us don’t.

It’s not a problem per se, except for when you’re trying to budget or cut back - or indeed, seeing your spending spiral out of control.

For Jane Berry, author of Extreme Frugality: Save Money Like Your Grandma and award-winning blog, Shoestring Cottage, tracking all of her spending was the way she got in control of her finances.

Here, she explains how the rule has helped her in the last decade.