Half term is not usually one of the frugal-est (is that a word) weeks of the year but I don't think we've done too badly this week. Five frugal things I've done this week: 1. Miss Frugal isn't growing that much so she hasn't grown out of many clothes but her taste has changed so much since she started secondary school so we had a sort through of her wardrobe this week. Because she's quite small, she's still got clothes that we bought for her in Year 5 so you can imagine that her taste has changed massively now that she's as a much more sophisticated (;-)) Year 7 girl. We photographed what … [Read more...]
#Thrifty Thursday – How to organise your shoes….
Miss Frugal has a lot of shoes!It's not that she has a shoe obsession or anything but as I mentioned in my post about her school shoes the other week, her feet haven't grown very much at all in the last year or so which means that she's not growing out of shoes. This little lot is what she's accumulated over the last year or so (both pairs of Converse were part of a review on here).She's not the tidiest person in the world so we needed to try and get a system in place that was easy and quick for her to use to store her shoes so we went for the photos on a box approach.We … [Read more...]
Hot dog pizza toast….
I don't know about you but I seem to find myself being added to numerous Facebook groups recently and looking down the list of things I'd been added to the other day, I found a group that I thought I actually might like so instead of deleting it, I clicked on the link to view the group.I'm not going to name the group but the first post I read was a lady who had mentioned that she was feeding her children hot dogs for lunch. Now I know as much as the next person that there is very little nutritional value to a hot dog but the comments that this lady was getting from some people were … [Read more...]
Half way through half term – 10 free things you can do today….
I hope you're all having as much fun this half term as we are!We're trying to cram in as much as possible before I go back to work on Friday so we've been quite busy so far this week. We're almost half way through the week now though so I'm getting ready to hear those dreaded words.... Mam, I'm Bored. It's almost inevitable that someone is going to say them in the next day or two so I have my bored jar at the ready and I'm also armed with lots of ideas for things for us to do that aren't going to break the bank.Here's my top ten ideas for free activities that you can do together … [Read more...]
Mum’s can sulk too….
It goes without saying that I'm extremely proud of both of my children for many reasons but this post isn't about that. It's about what happened when I said the thing I said I would never say to my children.... This house isn't a hotel so don't treat it like one! I said I'd never say it because I always want my children to feel comfortable in their own home and to know that they're always welcome and that they can always bring their friends round (which they do - a lot). I've made sure that they have comfortable bedrooms that have space for them to play and it pleases me that they both … [Read more...]
Tasty Spicy Chickpea and Mushroom Stew {Vegetarian} {Free on Slimming World}….
In my mind, there's two different types of cooking.There's the cooking you have to do to feed your family and then there's the cooking you do for fun, usually for me that's because I have an ingredient or an idea I want to try.Just lately, we've had so much going on that I haven't had time for the fun side of cooking. In fact, I've probably only just been managing to keep up with the feeding my family type of cooking if I'm honest! But tonight, I went in the fridge for something and found some mushrooms that needed using up so I decided to have a play.The resulting meal was … [Read more...]
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