1. I've up-cycled a cake board into a memo board this week which saved me throwing away the cake board!  You can have a read about how I did it here if you fancy having a go yourself.2. We're now into our second week of feeling under the weather but I'm pleased to say that we have (almost) stuck to our meal plan which is no mean feat when you have as little energy as I've had this week!  There was one night when I replaced what we had planned for dippy egg and soldiers because I just couldn't face cooking (or actually leaving the sofa for more than two minutes to be honest) but for the … [Read more...]

1. We've had a week without shopping this week as we've been using up the random bits of food and leftovers that we have in already.  It's made for some very random meals but we've got a half empty freezer now so I've made space for some more reduced supermarket bargains.2.   We've all been under the weather this week with snotty noses and sore throats so rather than buying half the chemist as I would have done in the past, I decided to go for the old fashioned hot water in a bowl approach to clear our blocked noses.  I added a couple of drops of Olbas oil to some slightly cooled just … [Read more...]

  Five frugal things I've done this week: 1.  Don't judge me for this one!  At our local Asda I saw someone get in their car and drive away leaving their trolley in the next car parking space so I did the good citizen thing and took the trolley back to the trolley bay.  Obviously my intention was to prevent the trolley from rolling away and hitting a car and had nothing to do with the fact that there was a pound coin in there waiting to be claimed.  ;-)2.  I bought a new table and chairs, well not exactly new but new to us.  I haven't got it set up yet properly but here's the photo … [Read more...]