Over the past few years the slightly American tradition of Elf on a Shelf has become more and more popular here in the UK and every Christmas my Facebook and Instagram timelines are full of naughty little elves getting up to all sorts of mischief.If you've not heard of Elf on a Shelf then you're probably wondering what on earth I'm on about ;-)It's basically a tradition where you have a family elf who comes to visit on the 1st December and stays up until Christmas Eve when Santa will take him back home with him. The elf is supposed to be keeping an eye on the kids and making sure … [Read more...]
Could you live without TV?
In the past I've always said that Sky TV was something that we would happily pay for - it was our little luxury and we were OK with it seeing as we don't drink, smoke or go out very much!I can't remember exactly how much we used to pay for our Sky package but I think it used to be around £70 a month for the full package including the movies and the sports. We recently changed to Virgin Media and saved a fortune by taking our phone and broadband with them and getting a cheaper package without the sports or the movies.The sports channels are no big loss to anyone apart from Mr Frugal … [Read more...]
This week’s meal plan {26th October 2015}….
It's half term here this week so I imagine that this week's plan will change a little bit but here's what I'd like to think we'll be having....As always, I won't bore you with the specifics of every meal but there's a couple of things I will tell you about:Chicken Surprise is what I like to call it when I know we'll be having chicken but I have no idea how we'll be having it. I'm thinking either chicken curry or cajun chicken. Hot dogs and fries are actually those little Richmond sausages which I bought reduced last week and some reduced hot dog buns so less than 75p for the … [Read more...]
125+ things to do this October Half Term….
Keeping the kids occupied during the October half term can be more challenging than during the rest of the school holidays thanks to the often miserable weather so I thought I'd put together a little round up of a few of my posts to give you some ideas on what you can do to stop the usual 'I'm bored' whinges....And then there's this post which features five of our favourite cooking with kids recipes and these ten posts which are about little DIYs that Miss Frugal has done recently.And I always find that our bored jars come in very handy at this time of year.... … [Read more...]
#BargainOfTheWeek – My New Settee….
This week's bargain of the week is my best bargain yet! ;-)I just got a new (to me) corner settee and cuddle chair for my living room for absolutely nothing - thanks to my lovely Dad. He bought it not long ago and decided that it's not a great fit for his living room after all so he's bought a new one and had this one delivered to us!It does take up more space than our old one but we're getting our TV mounted on the wall this week so we can get rid of the TV cabinet and pop the cuddle chair where that used to go.We sold our old one for £50 and i used the money to buy the quote … [Read more...]
Five Frugal things I’ve done this week to save money {24th October 2015}….
I usually sit down on a Friday afternoon after work and have a good think about what I've done that week to try and be more frugal and thrifty that's interesting enough to be included in that week's Five Frugal Things post.I didn't get chance last night though as I was too busy doing number 1 on my list, so I'm a day late but here's my five frugal things for this week....1) I got a new settee which is usually not very frugal but this one was given to me by my Dad as he bought it for himself not long ago and has now decided that it's too big for his Living Room. It's immaculate and … [Read more...]
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