The Diary of a Frugal Family

Master Frugal has always been a sensitive child and he's always had a habit of worrying about things that seem relatively unimportant to everyone but him.At one point, his worrying was causing him tummy pains on a night which made it difficult for him to sleep and we  actually thought there was something more sinister wrong with him.   After lots of blood tests and much prodding and poking by the doctors, it was decided that he was actually suffering from mild anxiety which was a huge relief at the time and made total sense knowing what a little worrier he's always been.It wasn't that he … [Read more...]

Last week I was talking to Miss Frugal about how she needs to keep working as hard as she is now with her school work and I came out with an amazing motivational quote:It sounded familiar even as it came out of my mouth but it wasn't until Miss Frugal said 'Mam, did you actually just quote SClub7 at me?' that I realised exactly why it sounded so familiar.I really did try to teach my child a life lesson using a line from an SClub7 song!*I then spent the rest of the night trying to recall other lines from SClub7 songs that were motivational (as you do when you have about a … [Read more...]

Do you suffer from excessive sweating under your arms?I do and if untreated, it means that I start to develop embarrassing little sweat patches under my arms by mid-morning and by mid afternoon, depending on what I'm wearing, they're grown that big that they're pretty much visible to the people in the next street.(OK, the bit about the people in the next street seeing them is a slight exaggeration but they're definitely noticeable and certainly make me feel very self conscious.)If you suffer from excessive sweating then you'll probably understand when I say that before I discovered … [Read more...]