No Spend Days How many days a week are there where you can honestly say that you haven't spent a single penny?I bet there's not too many because, most of the time, it's actually quite a hard thing to do unless you really focus on it. But if you could manage just a couple of days each week where you make a conscious effort not to spend any money at all then imagine what you could do with the money you save.I've written before about how we make no spend days work for us as a family so I won't go into too much detail today but basically, on a day I want to be a no spend day, I'll try … [Read more...]
White Chocolate Matcha Blondies….
I've shared a couple of different Matcha recipes with you over the last year or so but today is my favourite one yet! It's adapted from the recipe for Matcha Blondies that I found in 'The Book of Matcha' that the lovely people at TeaPigs sent me a couple of weeks ago.It's adapted because I didn't have brown sugar and eggs in so I made a few little tweaks so I didn't have to pop to the shop and it turned out gorgeous so I thought I'd share my version with you....White Chocolate Matcha Blondies 200g butter 200g white chocolate chips 125g soft brown sugar 125g sugar 2 large … [Read more...]
Our Sunday Afternoon Tradition….
We've got into a bit of a habit lately of going for a walk on a Sunday afternoon after our tea.We try to go somewhere different each week and usually head wherever we're going in the car rather than just walk him close to home like we do that every other night. Tonight, we had a lovely walk around the Riverside Football Stadium and along the banks of the River Tees.We had a lovely walk around the stadium and as always, the kids took the football and had a good kick about in the area around the stadium which is always deserted when we visit on a Sunday evening! After … [Read more...]
No Bake Unicorn Fudge….
This super easy to make no bake unicorn fudge is a real showstopper!I woke up early this morning feeling refreshed after a good night's sleep so I got up and while everyone else was still asleep, I cleaned the kitchen, put some washing on, had a cup of tea and made a batch of unicorn fudge.You know, the usual Sunday morning activities. ;-)This recipe for Unicorn Fudge is great to make with the kids and would be brilliant as a homemade present or as a cute addition to a party buffet as it tastes great but looks even better. Miss Frugal would have loved this at any one … [Read more...]
How to make money from your spare room….
It's Saturday morning which means it's time for the next post in my 'How to Make Money' series and this week it's all about how to make money from your spare room. Just as with last week's post about tutoring, I've asked someone with much more knowledge than me on the subject to share their personal experience of making money from their spare room with you all.Over to Jane from Shoestring Cottage....How to make money from your spare room Hosting International Students When one of my daughters went to university I decided to make some extra cash by contacting the local … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did in Milan….
Last week we were lucky enough to have a lovely family break in Milan which I was going to tell you all about in another post but I decided to work it into this week's five frugal things post because it was such a frugal break yet such an enjoyable one.First of all, I'm going to tell you how much I paid for it because it was an unbelievable price for what we got!We traveled with Easyjet and paid £435 in TOTAL for four of us to fly to Milan from Edinburgh and stay for four nights in a four star hotel with breakfast. The price included everything but transfers and insurance (which we … [Read more...]
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