We have a stack of board games in our garage ranging from Twister to Cluedo and Pie Face to Monopoly and over the last few years, as the kids have got older, we've loved playing every one of them.The reason they're all in the garage and not in the house right now (apart from lack of space ;-)) is that we've been enjoying playing with our collection of games that we call our travel games.We call them our travel games because they're the ones that we take on holiday with us or anywhere that we expect to be sitting around for a while. They're all small, portable, easy to set up and easy … [Read more...]
Five Fabulously Frugal Things I’ve done this week {14th October 2016}….
I'm not going to lie, it's been difficult to be anything but thrifty this week as I've spent most of it in bed recovering from my operation last week but I think I've got enough to get to five.... Maybe. ;-)1) Mr Frugal has been wanting to pre-order a game for his PS4 for the last few months and I've been putting him and trying to delay it as I HATE that games are so expensive. It's not even like we could shop around for this one as the one he's after is a pre-order online with Playstation and you get loads of extras by pre-ordering. Grrrrrr!I managed to save a little by buying … [Read more...]
A few of my favourite UK frugal and thrifty bloggers….
{I published this back in 2015 originally but I've discovered some brilliant frugal blogs lately that I know you'll love as much as I do so I thought I'd start to update it. Once I started, the list grew from about 10 to 30 so if I were you, I'd go grab a cuppa and take a bit of time to have a good read through them all to see if you find a few new favourites. If you don't have time now then you could always Pin it for later. ;-) } There's nothing I love more than sitting down with a cup of tea and a jaffa cake and getting the chance to read some of my favourite blogs in peace. … [Read more...]
Stop spiders the natural way….
I know there's nothing to be scared of about spiders and I try to be brave for the sake of the kids as I don't want them to grow up scared of them but when I see one of the little eight legged creatures in the house, I can't rest until it's gone.Mr Frugal is great at rescuing them and freeing them in the garden, far far away from the door and I have an amazing next door neighbour who fills in for him when he's not here but I'll be honest, I'd rather not see them at all. This time of year is particularly challenging as they all seem to want to come inside and make their way to whichever … [Read more...]
Homemade peanut butter and banana dog treats….
At the grand old age of 5 and a half poor Buddy is being subjected Miss Frugal's version of dog training and it's not going well!Buddy was never the easiest dog to train although that may not necessarily be his fault as the vet thinks it might be linked to the medication he had when he was a very young puppy. When he was just a few weeks old he was diagnosed with Puppy Strangles (I'm not sure what the technical term for this is) which can be fatal for puppies. Luckily they caught it early on and with the help of a fair amount of medication, he pulled through but we have no idea what the … [Read more...]
Thrifty and frugal ways aren’t always the cheapest ways….
I'm just going to put it out there that I'm really not a fan of the word 'FRUGAL'.I chose it as a blog name all those years ago because it sounded good with the word family and it did seem to sum up what I was trying to achieve. In my head now though, the word conjures up images of miserable people doing without the things they want in life to save money and even the Thesaurus uses words like miserly, scant, skimpy and insufficient to describe frugal and that makes me a bit sad.I'd like to re-write the definition of the words thrifty and frugal so instead of using all those miserable … [Read more...]
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