Every week I share five frugal things that I've done during that 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.Before I start though, I do want to say that being frugal to me is about getting the best value for our money - it's not about doing without for us or about not having nice things. We all have different financial situations and we're all frugal for different reasons - we're frugal so we can afford to do nice things together.1) I made a batch of my homemade orange peel cleaning … [Read more...]
Helping our food bank this Christmas – the update….
Remember my post about the Christmas parcels we're making up for our local food bank? Well today, I thought I'd give you a bit of an update...In case you missed that post, we're basically making some Christmas hampers for local families which we hope to include everything they'll need to cook their Christmas Dinner other than the turkey. ;-) I'm aiming for eight parcels but I've started early so if I get enough for the eight then I'll do more if I have the chance.First things first, I got in touch with our local food bank to make sure that they would be OK with me making these … [Read more...]
Five (kind of) Frugal Things we did last week in Los Angeles {9 November 2018}….
Every week I share five frugal things that I've done during that 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.Before I start though, in case you don't already know, I should say that when we originally booked our trip to LA we chose a mid-range hotel that was nowhere near as nice as the one we ended up in. We were upgraded after an issue with the hotel we booked led to us making a complaint and ultimately ended up in an amazing hotel in a much better location. The fact that we were … [Read more...]
How I pay for Christmas without spending any money….
I'm not someone who agrees with the whole 'Presence not Presents' ethos at Christmastime (but that's a whole other post so stay tuned for that in a couple of weeks) but equally, I don't want to spend a small fortune on the presents that I do buy.There are a few things I try to do throughout the year that help me to pay for some presents without actually having to spend any money so today, I thought I'd share a few of them with you...Swagbucks The first thing I do to save up for Christmas is to use the Swagbucks site throughout the year to accumulate Swagbucks which are kind of like … [Read more...]
Five super simple meals made using the veg from our veg box….
You might have read in a post recently that I've signed up for a regular vegetable box delivery with a local company which is something I've wanted to do for ages. The main reason I kept putting it off was that I didn't know if I'd be able to incorporate all the vegetables we got into meals - I worried that I'd end up wasting food which is totally against what I wanted.It hasn't been that way at all though and with a lot of creative thinking, we've used up everything (apart from the three corn on the cobs that I gave away) so today, I thought I'd show you a few of the meals we've cooked … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did last weekend {2 November 2018}….
Every week I share five frugal things that I've done during that 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.So, before we start, I should tell you that I'm currently in LA with Miss Frugal and I actually wrote this post last Sunday, hence the slightly different post title this week. Travel is one of our family's main motivations for being frugal and trips like this really do make it all worthwhile. It's just me and Miss Frugal for this trip as the boys weren't overly keen on the long … [Read more...]
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