Five Frugal things I’ve done this week to save money {18th September 2015}….

Five frugal things I’ve done this week:

1.  Don’t judge me for this one!  At our local Asda I saw someone get in their car and drive away leaving their trolley in the next car parking space so I did the good citizen thing and took the trolley back to the trolley bay.  Obviously my intention was to prevent the trolley from rolling away and hitting a car and had nothing to do with the fact that there was a pound coin in there waiting to be claimed.  

2.  I bought a new table and chairs, well not exactly new but new to us.  I haven’t got it set up yet properly but here’s the photo on eBay….

I bought the set of eBay for £60 and although it needs a bit of a makeover, I do really like it.  I wanted something smaller than we had and this looked like exactly what I wanted as it’s great quality and just needs some TLC.  The cheapest good (ish) quality set that I could find new was three times this price so I think we got a deal on a lovely dining set that’s so much more ‘us’ than our last set!

3.  I know I posted about this yesterday but it’s was super-thrifty so I thought I’d tell you again in case you missed it!  Imade a homemade photo booth for Miss Frugal’s party rather than hiring one as she (rather ambitiously) asked me to.

4. I made Miss Frugal’s Birthday cake for her beach party last weekend rather than buying one and although I may have cheated and used ready made frosting, it was a lot cheaper than buying a cake (which the grandparents did for her actual Birthday on Wednesday).  A lot messier too but there you go….

5. Miss Frugal has started taking bottles of water to school rather than buying them there at 60p a time.  We can buy a 1o pack of water for £2 which works out at 20p a bottle so I won’t have to top her card up for school as often.  When I get away with it, I refill the bottles with tap water which makes it even cheaper.

What frugal or thrifty things have you done this week?

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