Every year when I write my New Years Resolution list, the same one is always right there at the top of my list - SAVE MONEY. Actually, trying to save money is always a high priority here but making it a New Years Resolution always seems to focus me on it even more than usual. As I know lots of you will be trying to focus on the same things as me I thought I'd do a quick reminder of my Money Makeover series from last year which was all about reviewing your finances and making them better....Week One – Money Makeover Introduction Week Two – Sort our your spending Week Three – Dealing … [Read more...]
Fabulously Frugal #3….
Thanks so much to everyone who linked up a Fabulously Frugal post last month. I really do want people to see that being frugal and thrifty isn't the same as being tight or stingy and that there are some many easy and fun ways to save money so the more people who share their posts, the more chance of that happening.As promised, I've pinned them all of the posts to my 'All things thrifty, frugal and money saving!' board on Pinterest and I wanted to share my favourite two on here as well:Just click on the photos to visit the posts. It would be great to see even more of you joining … [Read more...]
There’s no place like home….
Last month marked our five year anniversary of living in this house and although I still stalk Right Move at regular intervals during the year, I do love living here and can't see us moving any time soon.It's a new build house that we bought while it was still being built so we got to choose all the fixtures and fittings and once it got to a certain stage of the build, the developers were happy for me to just pop in and wander around while I pretended that I needed to measure something but really just wanted to see the house again, just to imagine what it would be like with us living in … [Read more...]
Secret Santa on a budget – 10 presents for under a fiver….
I love a good Secret Santa with my friends at work but we generally opt for a lower budget because, let's face it, Christmas is expensive enough as it is.We've had a year where we set the budget at £1 per person with the idea being that you had to get the most creative gift that you could for that amount. We got all sorts of gifts from candles to cactus plants dressed up as Santa and it was much more fun than opening the inevitable chocolates, biscuits and alcohol that we would have no doubt seen if we'd had a higher budget.This year, we're going for a slightly higher budget of £5.00 … [Read more...]
Make the most of the free supermarket magazines….
Do you ever pick up a copy of the free magazines that your local supermarkets usually have on display at the checkouts?I never did until recently, mainly because I thought they would just one giant advert full of buy this from here or do this using something you've bought from here or articles about people associated with the shops in question. But a recipe on the cover of one a little while ago caught my eye so I took it home and sat down to read it after the kids had gone to bed.I was pleasantly surprised that the whole magazine wasn't trying to sell me something and I discovered … [Read more...]
Fabulously Frugal #2….
Thanks so much to everyone who linked up a Fabulously Frugal post last month.As promised, I've pinned them all to my 'All things thrifty, frugal and money saving!' board on Pinterest and I wanted to share my favourite two on here as well:Just click on the photos to visit the posts.I was really pleased that people joined in with Fabulously Frugal because there are so many different ways to save money or to be frugal and thrifty and I want to see as many ideas as possible linked up every month.I'd love to see even more of your Fabulously Frugal posts added to the linky … [Read more...]
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