Five Fabulously Frugal Things I’ve done this week {23rd September 2016}….

1) I won an award which I know that isn’t particularly thrifty of frugal in itself but bear with me here.

I was really pleased to be awarded the Best Lifestyle and Money blog by the lovely team at UK Money Bloggers and gutted that I missed the big posh awards ceremony in London a few weeks ago as I would have loved to meet up with some of the lovely bloggers who were also nominated.

My prize arrived this week in the form of vouchers for M&S and (here’s where the frugal bit comes in) instead of spending it on yummy food of clothes and handbags, I decided to be practical and give my bathroom a long awaited makeover.  I bought a big pile of fluffy towels, some new mats and some other pretty things and once the new flooring goes down this afternoon it’s going to look like a whole new room.  I’ll show you a pic as soon as it’s all sorted.

2) We went to the Festival of Thrift last weekend and LOVED it!

I wrote about it here if you want to read in more detail about the day but basically, I’m now filled with ideas for upcycling and making some amazing things as gifts for people.  As I learn to do them myself then I’ll share them with you so you can do the same.

3) We harvested some of our veggies this week and although some of them were a little on the small side, they were definitely delicious so we can count our vegetable patch as a success.  The mint has all died for some reason though so it’s back to the drawing board on that as I thought it was quite prolific and that we’d have a never ending supply.

4) When I went to Whitby over the Summer I found a big basket of dirty old glass medicine bottles for £1 each and I knew that they’d look brilliant in my kitchen with some flowers in if I cleaned them up.  I bought three and headed off to the beach with my bargain bottles in hand where I washed one of then in the sea as I was so pleased to see how pretty it looked when it was free of all the dust and grime.  With one thing and other, it’s actually taken me until this week to get them all properly cleaned and in their new home on top of my bureau in the kitchen.  I’ve used the flowers from our DIY flower headbands now that festival season is over although I’ll pop fresh flowers in when I get chance.

5) I helped my Dad to cancel his Sky TV subscription this week and we’ve installed Now TV for him which is going to save him a huge amount of money every month as he was on the top package with Sky.

What frugal or thrifty things have you done this week?

It was great to read all your five frugal things posts last week so thank you to those of you who took the time to link up a post with us.   Emma and Becky and I would love to make think linky into a place to share all of our frugal ideas with each other so hopefully we’ll see even more of you linked up this week.

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