1) Oh my goodness - I grew something that we could eat!  OK, they're only spring onions but it's a start.2) Mr Frugal and I visited the gardens at Wynyard Hall last weekend and didn't buy a slice of cake.Not particularly frugal on the face of it but the promise of cake was the main reason that I was able to persuade Mr Frugal to come along.After our walk around the  gardens we headed to the cafe only to find the cake was super expensive and not only that, the slices looked teeny.  We drooled over the delicious looking cakes and bakes for a few minutes and then managed to walk … [Read more...]

1) I had to cut the crusts off some bread on Sunday morning to make our favourite family treat breakfast - Nutella French Toast Roll Ups.  Rather than waste the crusts, I've popped them in the freezer as I'll be making some homemade fishcakes next week (if I stick to the meal plan I have in mind) and the crusts will make great breadcrumbs to coat them in.2) I invested in some new microfiber cloths from B and Q which were a bargainous 3 for £1 (as they are in the pound shops I think).  Microfiber cloths are honestly amazing and they're an essential part of my cleaning kit!  They're so … [Read more...]

1) After the success I had with dying my eyelashes at home I thought I'd try waxing my eyebrows myself with a kit from Boots that cost me £2.69 .  They're weren't as sticky as I expected and it took me the whole pack to get my eyebrows looking like I wanted them to as I had to keep re-doing bits but I did manage to get them done using the pack and it was a lot easier than I expected so I would get them again in future.You can find them in the section with the make up brushes and fake nails if you want to have a try yourself.  They're far from HD quality but to be fair they cost so much … [Read more...]

1) I've become a little bit washi tape obsessed this last month or so and I've shared a few washi tape creations (including our washi tape manicure and a DIY savings jar with washi tape embellishments) but this week I did something super simple.  I simply wrapped some washi tape around the metal container of some tealights I had to add some extra sparkle to them and they look brilliant.I used some of the maxi tealights that we got from Morrisons last year after we had a couple of powercuts in the space of a week so I had to go round the tealight twice with the washi tape but if you're … [Read more...]

Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links which mean that I might get paid if you make a purchase but all products or services that I recommend are ones that I highly recommend. I won’t put anything on this page that I haven’t verified and/or personally used and I won't ever be less than honest with my opinion.As you might have read the other day, I'm back from our trip to New York!  We had a great time and I'll be sharing bits of our trip with you all over the next few weeks but for now, I thought I'd make today's Five Frugal Things post all about some of the frugal things we did … [Read more...]

By the time you read this I'll be in New York with Miss Frugal enjoying (hopefully) our long awaited holiday so it's probably not going to come as a huge surprise that today's post is New York themed with each of my five frugal things having something to do with our trip.1) First up we have toiletries!  Miss Frugal wanted to go and buy some of the cute little travel sized bottles of everything from deodorant to hair spray and from shampoo to toothpaste but they seemed very expensive compared to their larger sized versions.  To give you an idea of what I mean, Sure deodorant is £1.20 for a … [Read more...]