1) What do you do with your spare change?Mr Frugal empties out his wallet every night when he gets home from work and transfers his change (20p and below) into this vase on the kitchen windowsill.  It's never going to make us rich but all those small coins add up to a reasonable amount over time.  We usually change it in a Coinstar machine (I know 8p per pound charge but so much easier than counting it, bagging it and taking it into town) and use the amount towards our shopping.  When we get home, if we remember, we'll then transfer that amount to our little savings … [Read more...]

This week is an odd one because I'm sharing a few things that I've actually spent some money on - all for a good reason but still spending money rather than saving it....1) We have the fastest broadband package available to us in our area and for a family with two teenagers, a sometimes gamer (Mr Frugal, not me) and a blogger it's completely necessary!  We have had a few issues lately though with poor Master Frugal and his xbox which always lagged (I'm told that's the down with the kids way of saying that it goes slow) when we were all online at once.  We did some research and found a … [Read more...]

1) I ran out of allergy tablets last week but instead of popping to the shop to buy my replacement tablets, I headed to Amazon instead to see if they were any cheaper on there. I already switched from buying some things from my chemist to buying them off Amazon (here's one thing I find cheaper and easier to buy online) so I was hoping I could buy these too.   From what I can see, allergy tablets either have Loratadine or Cetirizine as the ingredient that controls the allergy so I just made sure that the tablets I bought had the same ingredient as the ones I already take before I bought … [Read more...]