Am I correct in thinking that it's OK to talk about Christmas now that the Coca Cola advert has been on TV ;-)I hope so, because with just 38 days to go, I've got lots to say, I'll try and keep most of my Christmas mutterings confined to the OneStopChristmasBlog but very often every now and again I'm not going to be able to help myself!Like today for example, we're using today to have a bit of a pre-Christmas clear out as we do every year around this time and I'm going to try and make some money with our things to go towards our Christmas fund.I find it much easier to clear our the … [Read more...]
It all adds up….
One of the ways that we save up for special occasions and treats is to save all of our small change.At the moment we're saving 1p's, 2p's, 5p's and 10p's but when we're feeling a bit flush (usually around pay day ;-)) we also save 20p's and there may even be the occasional 50p thrown in for good measure.We save them in three vases that sit on the kitchen windowsill - some people have herbs or flowers, we have money!When they get full, we take them along one of the machines in our local supermarket where we change them and get cash. I know the machines usually charge around 8p for … [Read more...]
What to do with your leftover Christmas chocolate….
If you're house is anything like ours, leftover chocolate is about as rare as left over wine for most of the year. But around this time every year (and again at Easter) we seem to have masses of it!Our favourite way to use up any leftover chocolate is to melt it all together in a bowl, add some plates of chopped fruit, some marshmallows and maybe some cookies and give everyone a kebab skewer (or a fork) and away you go.This is easily the easiest to make and funnest to eat (not a word I know) pudding that I know....I don't like to brag but I *may* possibly have secured the Mother … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas….
Our Christmas Eve Traditions….
In case you haven't already guessed - I love Christmas!I think I'm a bit odd though as I look forward to Christmas Eve more than the big day itself. I'm not sure if it's the anticipation for the day ahead or if it's just because we have a set routine on Christmas Eve that I love and look forward to.We get up when we get up and have home made pancakes for breakfast followed by a trip to the cinema usually to see a Christmassy film. This year we're having some lovely friends and their children round for a couple of hours in the afternoon so we're not going to the pictures but we'll be … [Read more...]
Get your Christmas Craft on….
I'm really starting to feel festive now (it helps that my wrapping is now all done) although the fact that poor Master Frugal's still suffering from his bad cough means that we're not doing as much as we usually would be at this time of year. Yesterday we were supposed to be going to a lovely local Christmas craft fayre but seeing as he's still coughing every time we go outside in the cold we decided to stay in and have a pyjama craft and movie day with a bit of baking thrown in for good measure.I'm glad we did decide to stay at home actually because we had a really nice day together - we … [Read more...]
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