1) I had to buy the last of Master Frugal's new school uniform this week and although it's pretty hard to save money when most of it is compulsory, I did manage to save a little bit. I have no idea why he needs both a short and long sleeved top along with a hoody but I was a good parent and bought them all along with the school socks! I drew the line at the shorts and the tracksuit bottoms as the PE teacher told me that he'd never wear the tracksuit bottoms and any shorts were OK as long as they were black. He has a pair of black nike shorts that he's going to wear and a pair of plain black … [Read more...]
Packed Lunch Cake – it’s frugal, filling and delicious….
I've always been a fan of packed lunches and in the past, I've written about the fact that I could make a healthy and filling packed lunch for around half the price of a school dinner which has saved me a fortune over the years.With both of mine in senior school from September, I'm no longer going to be making packed lunches but I've just made a final batch of our favourite home made packed lunch cake so I thought I'd share the recipe with you on here again and update the costings for 2016 to show that it's still a very frugal way to get something sweet into your child's packed … [Read more...]
Five Fabulously Frugal Things I’ve done this week {8th July 2016}….
1) I'm quite proud of my first one this week although it's not something that I've personally done. When I was shopping the other day I picked up a bag of Maltesers for us to share when we were watching a film that night. Miss Frugal looked at the bag and then wandered off for a few seconds, coming back with a box of Maltesers instead. She pointed out that as the box was on special offer that I would get more for my money if I bought the box which was more sweets for the same amount of money.2) I bought a new pack of microfibre cloths from Tesco this week - 4 for a £1 which I think is a … [Read more...]
Homemade lavender and oats bath soak….
You only have to look around the supermarket shelves these days to see a huge selection of bath soaks, bath scrubs, bath oils and all manner of body washes and bubbles and if you wanted to, you could spend a fortune on pampering yourself in the bath.But you don't need to spend a fortune on expensive products to have a lovely relaxing soak in the bath! In fact, I often make my own lavender and oats bath soak and I have done since I went to a blogging event about four years ago where we were shown how to make it.I don't grow lavender in my garden as Master Frugal hates bees and it … [Read more...]
How we make no spend days work for us….
Have you ever had a day where you haven't had to spend a single penny?Imagine how much money you could potentially save if you could go a few days each week without spending any money. It sounds much harder than it is you know and let's face it, if I can do it then anyone can!With the expensive Summer holidays coming up I've decided that we really need to focus on money and one of the ways that I'm doing that is by setting myself a target of 15 no spend days in the month of July.A no spend day is exactly as it sounds - a day where you don't spend any money at all although I don't … [Read more...]
Five Fabulously Frugal Things I’ve done this week {1st July 2016}….
1) I've finally finished my garden table and chairs which started out as a tatty set that we've had for the last few Summers. I bought some Valspar garden paint from B&Q and painted the table and two benches with that pot and then I bought a few of the tester sized pots to paint the chairs. I might be biased but I think it looks amazing!The paint goes on really well and much better than the tin of paint I bought from Cuprinol which I bought in Ivory originally to do the chairs. It just wouldn't cover the first chair despite a couple of coats which is fine as it was a dark wood … [Read more...]
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