Every week (ish) I share five frugal things that I’ve done during the previous week just to show you that the small things you do all add up to a great frugal lifestyle where you can learn to live a fabulously frugal life.
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1) Another week, another cheap day out with the kids – I feel like this could be my new regular opening to these posts instead of the reduced fresh flowers that I used to love sharing.
This week, we went to Brimham Rocks for a picnic and a play in the best natural playground I know. All my photos have photos of my partner’s kids in which I don’t want to share on here but… I do have some throwback photos from when I took my two which was twelve summers ago now!
Brimham Rocks are free to get into and if you’re a National Trust member then you don’t even have to pay for parking which makes it completely free. Add to that a picnic and some amazing weather and it’s an amazing afternoon out with kids that I can’t recommend highly enough.
I rang Master Frugal while I was there as we were climbing on the rock that the top photo above was taken on and he said it was one of the best days out he could remember from when he was younger!
2) I feel so lucky that my own wonderful children ( I have to say that in case they’re reading) are all grown up and I get to do it all over again with my partner’s children who were age six and eleven. It does sometimes make me laugh when some of the things that I want to do with them are things that I did with my own two when they were similar age.
In fact one of the things I’ve been doing this weekend is planning are the fun we’re going to have over the summer holidays. I’m doing it in the same way that I used to do it with a Summer Holiday weekly planner that I’m going to put all the fun stuff on that we plan to do. We have the kids three days out of every eight usually but we also have them for two weeks at the start of August which coincides with our holidays so there’s plenty of fun to be had.
I think I might do a full post about how I used to plan the Summer Holidays as I wrote a post about how I do it over 10 years ago and I’ve just found myself doing exactly the same thing again.
3) Carrying on with the Days out theme, I bought a book from the Tesco charity book stall this week for £1 and I can already tell that I’m going to get so much value from it!
It’s always worth checking out the books that have been donated to your local supermarket’s charity book stand – Asda, Morrison’s and Tesco have one here and I’ve got a few bargains on there lately but this one is brilliant as I can look at any area of the country and get some really good ideas of what to do.
4) I am just about to make banana bread! That’s right, banana bread.
I’m going to use up these just about to turn bananas and make some banana bread ready for my partner coming in from work.
I used to make banana bread all of the time and have a stack of different recipes for different variations here on the blog but I’m going plain today because, and please don’t laugh at me, but I have no idea if he actually even likes banana bread. 🤣
5) I have some weeds in my garden that nothing will get rid of – actually nothing! I’ve tried every natural remedy that Google suggests and spent money on all kids of weedkiller and nothing is helping.
So I got myself a gas weedburner to try and burn them out and you know what, for the first time since I moved in, we have a weed free patch in the front garden. And it cost less than I would usually spend on weedkiller so I think it could be the way forward.
I’ll keep you updated.
So, there’s this week’s five frugal things!
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