Successful vets Colin and Lizzy Whiting enjoy spending their disposable income on antiques. Marine engineer Ross Timmins and his wife Sarah, a hairdresser, work hard to budget what funds they have.
The Scaife-Lacy family are used to a weekly budget of £2,700, which they splash out on skiing trips. Restricted to around £170 each week, the Flinthams and their four children make do with free activities. What will happen when the two households swap places?
The Page family swap their eight bedroom house in West Yorkshire for a week in the Hollands' three-bed council house in Hartlepool.
Paul Walker and Victoria Maude have a weekly post-bills budget of £1,716, while Steve and Naz Edney have around £168 per week to spare. The Edneys hope that the swap will inspire their kids to work hard.
Sam and Richard Flint and their four children from a seven-bedroom house in Hertfordshire change places with Nora and Lahoussine Elayadi and their three children, who live in a two-bedroom council flat in Ealing, west London.
The inspirational life-swap series revisits families who took part in previous episodes. James wants to help episode buddy Antony realise his dream of attaining a physics degree. Karate entrepreneur Matt has taken Andy under his wing. And, has bin lady Sharon's situation changed?
