OK, I absolutely have to mention this one although I considered leaving it out because I go on about it all the time but I can't write a post about how to reduce your outgoings without mentioning it! Mealplanning is THE best way to save money because by being organised and planning what you're going to eat in the week ahead, you can write a shopping list that covers everything you need for the week ahead and you'll cut down on food waste as well as last minute trips to the shop.Plan your meals based on the food you already have in so you need to buy even less.A well stocked store … [Read more...]
Five Frugal things I’ve done this week to save money {28th August 2015}….
Five frugal things I've done this week: 1. After our visit to a Lavender farm this week I've used the lavender I came away with to make lavender sugar. I'll write a post up about how I did it but it's super simple really and once the lavender has infused itself into the sugar I'm going to bake with it - Lavender Shortbread is the first thing on my list!2. We were away last weekend and we had some gorgeous weather which was a surprise as we were expecting a pretty poor weekend weather wise. The sun was shining though and as I'd been expecting poor weather, I'd left the sun tan … [Read more...]
Five Frugal things I’ve done this week to save money {21st August 2015}….
There's kind of a holiday theme going on in this week's five frugal things post as we've booked a weekend away for this weekend. ;-) Five frugal things I've done this week:Despite knowing that this was the weekend we wanted to go away I only booked the holiday yesterday as I wanted to get the best deal possible. We managed to get an amazing deal with Butlins which is where the kids were desperate to go back to and it was cheaper than we were expecting to pay so I also booked adventure passes for them which are cheaper if you pre-book. I would definitely recommend leaving it until the … [Read more...]
30 free things you can do tomorrow….
Last Summer Holidays I wrote a post every week sharing five free things you could do with the kids in Summer and when I ran out of ideas, I asked some lovely blogger friends to take over and share their five favourite free things to do with the kids.This Summer I've been having so much fun with the kids that I haven't had the chance to write something similar as I'd planned to do but I've been making use of lots of the ideas in the posts so I thought I'd write a little round up for you tonight.Just click on the images to have a look at each of the ideas in more detail from my posts … [Read more...]
Five Frugal things I’ve done this week to save money {14th August 2015}….
Five frugal things I've done this week:Today is my last day at work until September and I honestly could not be more excited. We have so many things that we want to do and we're planning a family conference tonight over takeaway (paid for with vouchers I earned by sharing Zeek with you all) and plan our fortnight. I used Tesco Boost and with my points I managed to get enough vouchers for a lovely meal an Pizza Express, another meal out at a pub chain that I can't for the life of me remember the name of and a day out at Ocean Beach theme park. Not bad for free!It's always … [Read more...]
The 7 deadly sins of budgeting….
OK, so the title may be a bit over-dramatic but there are some really common and easy to make mistakes that lots of us make with our budgets and I wonder how many of them you can identify with?Here's my seven deadly sins of budgeting.... Not actually having a budget written down. It’s hard to stick to your budget if you don’t actually know what your budget is so it’s always worth taking the time to calculate what your budget is and then revisiting it every few months to make sure it’s still working for you. There’s a handy guide here on how to work out your budget as well as a free … [Read more...]
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