One of my proudest moments as a parent so far was when Master Frugal spent some of his own money on some food for a homeless man who we saw in London when we were there for the weekend earlier in the year.  I was so proud that he thought more of someone else's welfare than he did of his own enjoyment (he had big plans for that money in Hamleys).He bought a cup of tea and some muffins for the man and gave him them himself (watched closely by me) and I almost cried at the time as the man was so grateful and thanked him genuinely.Ever since then I've been meaning to find our local food … [Read more...]

Last night Miss Frugal came downstairs about 10 'o' clock in floods of tears.  She told us that she'd woken up after having a nightmare and whenever she closed her eyes to try and get back to sleep, she could see dead people and people dying!It turns out that a school trip to Eden Camp this week has affected her quite a lot to the point where she can't stop thinking about some of the tragedies they learned about.If you don't know Eden Camp, it's a museum made up of huts.  Each one telling a story about a different aspect of World War 2 and when I searched for the link to include, the … [Read more...]

<div align="center"><a href="https://www.frugalfamily.co.uk/" title="The Diary of a Frugal Family"><img src="https://www.frugalfamily.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/instagram-image-badge1.png" alt="The Diary of a Frugal Family" style="border:none;" /></a></div> I know I'm always saying this but I take a lot of photos, many of which I post to Instagram each week.There's often a photo I post that either has more of a story behind it that I can tell on Instagram or that I want to share on here but it doesn't really warrant a whole post of it's own if you know … [Read more...]

Now that we're two weeks in to the new school year, we're starting to get all the leaflets and hype about all of the various out of school activities that our children should be doing.We've had leaflets sent home from school, leaflets through the door and even some recommendations in the weekly school newsletter and honestly, there's so much choice that you could easily be doing something after school every day and at weekends and still not fit them all in!My two have tried out lots of out of school clubs and activities since they started school but if I'm honest, they've given most of … [Read more...]

So yesterday was Miss Frugal's 11th birthday and we finally relented and bought her a goldfish.As responsible goldfish owners-to-be we bought the tank and all the necessary fishy stuff a couple of weeks ago and started to prepare the tank as per Google's instructions.We very responsibly took a sample of our water to the fish shop to have it tested before we bought the fish and the lady said our water was perfect *proud face*.Miss Frugal chose two Platy fish and the lady accidentally scooped in a tiny baby fish which she said we could have as well as it was the only other fish in … [Read more...]

Happy 11th Birthday to my gorgeous little girl. Only when you're a mother yourself will you understand just how much I love you. … [Read more...]