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...]
How to make a super quick bracelet holder….
If you have a daughter around the same age as Miss Frugal then you may be familiar with the bracelet obsession that she's currently going through (and has been for the last year or so actually).Like most girls, she loves any kind of jewellery but in particular she has a bit of a thing for bracelets - she buys them cheap at boot sales, she gets given them by my friends, her friends always bring her one back from their holidays and she's got lots that she's made herself. She has numerous friendship bands, bangles, sparkly ones, beaded ones, charm bracelets, One Direction bands... You name … [Read more...]
I’ve been busy….
Does anyone else ever feel like they could do with an extra couple of hours in the day just to stand a chance of doing everything you need to do? Because that's definitely how I'm feeling lately!Don't get me wrong though, it's been mostly busy in a good way - we're settled on a school for Miss Frugal, the kids are loving the out of school activities they've chosen this year and we've managed to do LOTS of fun things together.I've even had time to start working on some new projects of my own, two of which are up and running properly so I thought I'd declare them officially open and … [Read more...]
Getting ready for Winter….
It's getting colder by the day and although we tried to last as long as we could, our heating is now back on for the first time since Spring and this, added to the fact that the nights are drawing in and X factor is back on TV can only mean one thing - Winter's coming.Now I know it might still seem early but it's October next week and I did read somewhere that we''re going to have a really cold Winter with snow forecast as early as October. So I'm going to start getting ready for Winter over the next couple of weeks.Here's our to-do list:Check the Emergency car bag and make sure … [Read more...]
Cleaning like my mam used to clean….
I remember when I was growing up, my mam used to have a cleaning schedule - not because she was a neat freak but because she wanted to make sure that over the course of a month, everything got done.I used to do something similar but gradually, over the last year or so, I've stopped following my schedule which means that rather than doing little and often, I regularly end up having a big blitz which obviously takes up a chunk of time that I'd rather be using to do something other than cleaning.I've decided I'm starting it again though so I've written out my two week cleaning plan (yes … [Read more...]
How to be the most organised parent in school….
On school days, we need to be out of the house every morning by 7.25 to get the children to breakfast club by 7.30 and then me to work by 8.00. If we're late leaving then I'm late for work and I can't afford to be late because I need to leave dead on 2.30 in time to get back to the school by 3.00 to pick them back up again.This means that we can't afford any delays or last minute traumas so our mornings have to go perfectly like a military style operation and the preparation for that starts straight after school the day before....Straight after school uniforms are taken off and … [Read more...]
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