This week has been all about getting everyone better and caught up with sleep ready for a lovely long weekend of doing all of the jobs I've been wanting to get done around the house.1. Mr Frugal knows how much I like Orla Kiely and how much I love upcycled furniture so when he saw that someone was selling this little beauty, he was there like a shot to buy it for me for my Birthday.I have no idea where I'm going to put it but I love it and the fact that it's upcycled means it's a thrifty birthday present which is even better.2. I invested in some new freezer storage containers … [Read more...]
7 ways to clean a burnt pan – easily….
It's no secret that I'm easily distracted so it probably won't come as too much of a surprise that I often very occasionally burn the tea which leaves me with a burnt pan to clean.The fact that my husband refuses to wash my burnt pans (he does all the rest of the pots usually) because I should have been more careful means that I 've become a bit of a 'how to clean a burnt pan' expert! Not something I'm particularly proud of but hey ho!Anyway, after another burnt pan incident last night (not my fault this time as someone came to the door), I thought I'd share a few of my tips with you … [Read more...]
This week’s meal plan {21st March 2016}….
It's been a good while since I've shared my meal plan with you all hasn't it?We've not been doing too badly with our meal planning lately but I know there's a lot more we could be doing to be even better - and by better, I mean saving more time as well as more money by being more organised.Our new freezer was delivered yesterday so I'm hoping that I'm going to be able to fill that with batch cooking delights and that one big batch cooking session every now and again will be enough to keep us fully stocked. I'm just starting to get it sorted now and out Muscle Foods delivery isn't … [Read more...]
Five Frugal things I’ve done this week {18th March 2016}….
1) Miss Frugal decided that she was suddenly too old for her beautiful pink and turquoise bedroom and that she wanted to go for an all white look instead. I did have a fair amount of white paint leftover from when we did our hall, stairs and landing so I told her I'd help her if she did most of the work and surprisingly, she agreed! She bought the roller out of her own money and set about painting what she could while I helped out with the higher bits.About half way through it was pretty obvious that the paint we had wasn't going to do the whole room but ,rather than buy more paint, I … [Read more...]
Five Frugal things I’ve done this week {11th March 2016}….
I'm a bit late this week aren't I?It's just been one of those weeks this week and I've had so much going on that even as I'm starting to write this post, I'm not sure that I'll manage to find five frugal things that I've done.Fingers crossed....1) I was tempted to treat myself to a new handbag this week to cheer myself up (trust me, it was very much needed) but instead I used my Boots Advantage points to buy myself a lovely little Ted Baker makeup bag for free.2) Ready made jars of sauce aren't always a bad thing - especially when this come with this free curry … [Read more...]
Five Frugal things I’ve done this week {4th March 2016}….
I'm quite pleased with my frugal efforts this week. ;-)1) I had a bit of a kitchen cupboard re-arrange this week and realised that I really needed to get a bit more organised with my storage as I have things in the cupboards that I use all the time and things on my lovely kitchen shelving unit that were there just because they were pretty. I was very tempted to buy some more of the gorgeous Orla Kiely storage containers that are on the top shelf in the picture below but they're not cheap and I couldn't justify the price so I decided to re-use other things I had already for storage.I … [Read more...]
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