Master Frugal left last Monday morning for a three night trip to Edinburgh with his classmates.The trip cost around £150 and we were told that £40 would be a good amount of spending money to send them. It seemed like a lot of money when we first signed the permission slip last year but he was so desperate to go with his friends that saying no was never an option!Fast forward to last Monday morning and as I dropped him off at school at the ridiculously early hour of 6am, I knew that I wasn't ready for him to go away for that long without me and to be honest, I didn't think he was ready … [Read more...]
#FabulouslyFrugal – Amazing quick and easy ideas for up-cycling charity shop bargains….
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am least crafty or artistic person around!I have brilliant ideas in my head but when it comes to the actual creation of the ideas, it rarely ends up looking like I wanted it to. So when I say that these ways to up-cycle your charity shop bargains are amazingly easy, you can rest assured that they most certainly are because if I can make them, anyone can!They're just simple ideas based on things that we've done but I hope you like them....This is a piece of wire stretched across the middle of a beautiful photo frame so Miss Frugal can … [Read more...]
Five Frugal things I’ve done this week to save money {19th June 2015}….
Before I start, I need to point out that I've been feeling a bit fed up with myself this week (Master Frugal has been away for 3 nights and I've had an infection in my finger/hand making pretty much everything painful).Things are on the up now that it's Friday though - I have my boy back home and the infection has almost cleared up so I'm going to try and think of five frugal things that I've done this week although for the first time since I started this, I think I'm going to really struggle to think of five..... Five frugal things I've done this week: 1. We did find a good deal on a … [Read more...]
10 ways to use Bicarbonate of Soda….
I bet most of you have a tub of Bicarbonate of soda (or baking soda) in your cupboard right now and I'd also hazard a guess that if we all went and checked the use by date on it, at least half of them would be out of date.There's a good reason for that - most people don't realise just how versatile bicarbonate of soda actually is so they buy a jar for baking and it sits in the cupboard for months on end, only being brought out when a recipe calls for a pinch of it.But there are so many other uses for it, so why not have a look at the list below and see what else you can do … [Read more...]
Inspirational homemade wall art….
Over the last few weeks we've been gradually giving Miss Frugal's room a bit of a makeover and we're both really pleased with the finished result - she's over the moon because it looks exactly like she wanted it to and I'm pleased because we did it on a really small budget.To keep the costs down, we've tried to use things from around the house or make them ourselves and our favourite homemade project was the inspirational wall art picture that we made.We used a picture that I bought for a couple of pounds ages ago and painted it using a light green tester pot of paint. You could use … [Read more...]
I’m not ready….
This morning I dropped Master Frugal off at school (at the ridiculous time of 6am might I add) for his first school residential.He's going away for three nights which is by far the longest I've been away from him before and if I'm honest, as he rushed on to the coach with all of his friends laughing and chatting at the tops of their voices about how much fun they were going to have, a teeny tiny tear may have escaped.I just don't think I'm ready for him to grow up yet.I'm worrying now about what he'll eat, whether he'll miss me, who'll hug him if he hurts himself and most … [Read more...]
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