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What is the cost of being single?

Today is International Single’s Day! Are you celebrating? Or is it something that’s actually ...

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13.59 11 Nov 2025


What is the cost of being single?


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13.59 11 Nov 2025


Today is International Single’s Day!

Are you celebrating? Or is it something that’s actually costing you?

There are many joys to being single - getting to pick out your own furniture, never having to go for dinner with the in-laws, being totally in control of the TV…

But then there are the obvious downsides; paying a mortgage on your own, going to events on your own, never getting to have dinner with the in-laws…

Joining Andrea to discuss the ups and downs of the single life is Journalist Andrea Smith, Founder of Irish beauty brand BeautybyCED.com Claire Clarkson and more.


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