Miss Frugal loves her designer makes but my purse doesn't like paying for them!We have a rule where I pay for her basics and she tops it up with her own pocketmoney if she wants something more expensive. So, for example, if she needs a pair of jeans then I'll give her what I think is a reasonable amount for a pair of jeans and she can either buy a middle of the road brand or she can add money to what I've given her to buy a more expensive pair.As an example, she's been after some Top Shop jeans for ages but at £42 a pair, I'm really reluctant to buy them for her as I know she can get … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things I’ve done this week {27 January 2017}….
1) Last weekend the kids (and us if I'm honest) really fancied a cheeky takeaway but we managed to resist the temptation by making homemade pizza. ;-)I'm sure I've shared my recipe for pizza dough before but it's basically 500g bread flour, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 300ml warm water and 7g dried yeast. We've always made this by hand before but I've been making it in the breadmaker since I got that for Christmas and it's just as nice. The tomato base is my homemade tomato sauce but I blend it down some more for pizza sauce when I'm making it for the kids as they're not keen … [Read more...]
Is being a stay at home Mum really harder than being a working Mum?
This morning I was in the queue at Aldi when I heard (it was impossible not to) a lady behind me in the queue talking on her phone. She seemed a bit annoyed with someone and was having a bit of a rant - most of which I just filtered out while being hypnotised by the speed of the Aldi checkout lady!One thing that I did hear was her telling the person who was on the receiving end of her rant was that it wasn't easy being a stay at home mum which is something I totally agree with. I can't tell if the person she was speaking to agreed or not but her reply to whatever they said was that being a … [Read more...]
My Money Story – Katy from Katy Kicker….
Today is the first post in my new series of posts written by some of the brilliant UK Money Bloggers that you can find on my list of UK Thrifty and Frugal Bloggers. I thought of the idea when I updated the post but it's taken me until now to get myself organised and ask some of my favourite bloggers to share their own money stories with you.First to share their money story is Katy from Katy Kicker who's sharing her story about how she quit her job and started working from home....I’ve suffered from health problems for a number of years now. I have a thyroid auto-immune disease, … [Read more...]
How to clear some space on your iPhone without deleting everything….
Yesterday I got that dreaded message on my iPhone that told me my storage was almost full and that I couldn't take the photo I wanted to take. ;-(I only have a 16gb iphone as I thought that would be enough when I bought it seeing as I don't store any music on my phone and I regularly transfer my photos onto my laptop but unfortunately, it seems like I was wrong and a bigger memory might have been the way to go.I'm certainly not going to buy a new phone just for the memory at the moment though as there's nothing wrong with my current phone that can't be fixed with a few little tips and … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things I’ve done this week {20 January 2017}….
1) We're still saving to replace our living room, hall, stairs and landing carpet which was the first thing I wanted to tick off my house to do list this year but when I popped into TKMaxx last weekend with Miss Frugal I found some lovely Orla Kiely bathroom accessories which were so much cheaper than the ones I've been drooling over online. They had some great orla Kiely towels too which matched the accessories so I thought I'd do a mini makeover on our en suite bathroom which still looks almost the same as it did the day we moved in.I got a big towel for £12.99, a smaller one for … [Read more...]
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