University is the first step in your adult life. All of a sudden, you are in charge of your destiny. It comes with great responsibility – the chief one being money handling. Building a good budgeting habit from the beginning of your university journey can smooth the path to reaching your academic and life goals earlier while feeling less stressed over your spending. Below are five top budgeting tips for a fantastic university life.1. Understand Your Financial Situation Step one is a simple matter of getting a handle on where you stand financially. Put together a list of all … [Read more...]
How to Make a Family Cookbook: From Recipes to Printing….
Making a family cookbook is a labour of love that brings the family together, strengthens bonds, and celebrates your shared culinary heritage. This project offers a unique opportunity to document the flavours and traditions that have shaped your family's identity. By capturing these recipes in a beautifully designed book, you preserve a legacy that your children, grandchildren, and future descendants can cherish and continue.This comprehensive guide will walk you through each step of making your family cookbook.Step 1: Gathering Family Recipes Start by contacting your relatives … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {28th July 2024}….
Every week (ish) I share five frugal things that I've done during the previous week just to show you that the small things you do all add up to a great frugal lifestyle where you can learn to live a fabulously frugal life. Hey! 👐1) Look what's back!It's the return of my bargain flowers...This is three bunches of flowers all reduced from £3 to 20p so I couldn't resist them. 2) And continuing with our latest tradition of finding places to play with the kids that aren't going to break the bank, we visited the new playpark at Danby Forest last … [Read more...]
How I plan our Summer Holidays (2024 version)….
It feels funny to be right in this post right now but I'm planning Summer Holiday fun again!I wrote a post back in 2011 about how I planned our summer holidays - Miss Frugal will have been nine and Master Frugal will have been six at that point. I shared all my top tips on how I made sure that we managed to fit as much fun over the holidays as we possibly could without spending a fortune and over the years that followed this post, I did pretty much the same thing every Summer for the years they were in school, every year making sure we had the best time our budget allowed us to … [Read more...]
Proud Mum Moment….
I know I don't post as often as I used to post on here but there was a time when I posted pretty much every day. I shared so much about my family life and I know from what I stopped blogging so often that lots of you really missed the updates around what we were doing and how we were getting on so today, if any of you regular readers are still here I have a treat for you.Miss Frugal graduated from university!I'm not going say too much about this as I think the pictures speak for themselves but I just wanted to share such an important moment in our lives with … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {21st July 2024}….
Every week (ish) I share five frugal things that I've done during the previous week just to show you that the small things you do all add up to a great frugal lifestyle where you can learn to live a fabulously frugal life. Hey! 👐1) Another week, another cheap day out with the kids - I feel like this could be my new regular opening to these posts instead of the reduced fresh flowers that I used to love sharing. This week, we went to Brimham Rocks for a picnic and a play in the best natural playground I know. All my photos have photos of my partner's kids … [Read more...]
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