I wrote this post this morning as I was just writing up my homemade linen spray recipe to share with you next week and I realised that every essential oils post I've written in the last couple of years has some sort of disclaimer attached to it about how you should always use essential oils with care. I thought it would make life so much easier if I just had one post to link to with everything I want to say about what you should consider when using essential oils.So, I love using essential oils for the various DIYs that I make to use around the house but I do always feel like I … [Read more...]
Homemade Green Tea and Matcha Soap…
I've shared a few of my homemade soap ideas this year but today I'm sharing one with you that I think is going to be a bit like marmite. You're either going to love or hate my homemade Green Tea and Matcha Soap.I never even considered making my own soap until I discovered something called 'Melt and Pour Soap Base' which is amazing and is basically just as it sounds - you melt it, stir in the ingredients you want to add and then you pour it into your moulds to set.My soap moulds are from Amazon and they're so cute! I use them for everything from my homemade toilet fizzies to mini … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things I’ve done this week {27th July 2018}….
Every week I share five frugal things that I've done during that 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.Before I start though, I do want to say that being frugal to me is about getting the best value for our money - it's not about doing without for us or about not having nice things. We all have different financial situations and we're all frugal for different reasons - we're frugal so we can afford to do nice things together.I missed last week's five frugal things post … [Read more...]
Homemade Refreshing Peppermint Cooling Spray….
This homemade peppermint cooling spray is exactly what you need to keep you cool in this heatwave!This lovely natural peppermint cooling spray has definitely been doing the job to keep me feeling refreshed in this heat lately but I love to pop it in in my travel bag to spray on my face after a long journey or when we get off the plane on holidays. How to make homemade Peppermint Cooling Spray My bottle is quite small as it started life as a hotel freebie pillow spray so I use 2 tablespoons water, 2 tablespoons of witch hazel and 5 drops each of lavender and peppermint essential oils. … [Read more...]
Emergency Fund Update….
For years, my credit card was my Emergency Fund but as I got closer to paying off my debts, I realised that we really did need an Emergency Fund otherwise, I'd never be able to be completely debt free. This year has been a big one for us financially with a big shift in focus for us as we finally reached the end of our journey to being debt free and then started to make regular, significant overpayments to our mortgage.The next step for us is to build an Emergency Fund that we can use in an emergency so we don't have to use our credit cards to pay for the unexpected things that … [Read more...]
Dave Ramsey’s Baby Steps – the UK version….
I first came across Dave Ramsey a few years ago now and I kind of discounted them as they were very US centric and also seemed very much like common sense things to do. More recently though, I've gone back to them and adapted them to myself so today, I'm going to share with you Dave Ramsey's Baby Steps - the UK version, adapted to fit what works for me.You shouldn't feel you have to do everything exactly as you're told - use them as a guide for what works for you!Now, I know I mentioned already that one of the reasons I wasn't a fan right away was because I thought the … [Read more...]
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