I've been a but absent this week as we've all had a cold (again!) which has led to a tired and slightly grumpy family. We've not done too bad though.... Five frugal things I've done this week: 1. If you're a regular here then you might have seen the seasonal bucket lists that I write every few months - a regular entry on there has been to clean out my garage but as it was so full of junk, we knew it was going to be a nightmare to clear it out. We found out that the council will collect junk quite cheaply - 6 items for a £18 but when we looked at what we had we realised that the cost was … [Read more...]
What’s in my handbag (or more to the point, what’s not in my handbag)….
I read a post written by Kara last week over on Chelsea Mamma about what's in her handbag and it made me think about how you can probably tell what age someone's children are by the contents of their handbag.Like Kara's handbag, mine used to consist of everything but the kitchen sink when my two were babies, with only slightly less in there when they were toddlers. But now that they're (almost 10) and 12, my handbag appears to be my own again.So for no reason other than I want to, I thought I'd share with you what's in my handbag right now....I have nothing child related in … [Read more...]
What we’re eating this week {23rd February 2015}….
Am I the only person who finds school holidays a nightmare as far as meal planning goes?Things never seem to go according to plan when the kids are off school - there's last minute sleepovers, days out that interfere with tea time, extra friends for tea, kids not wanting to come home at tea time and all sorts of other things sent to try my meal planning skills (and budget)!All good stuff and I wouldn't want to change the way we spend our school holidays in any way but it definitely makes it harder to stick to meal planning (well it does for me anyway).But that was last week! … [Read more...]
Slow cooker jacket potatoes….
OK, I have been told lots of times that you can cook jacket potatoes in the slow cooker but for some unknown reason, until recently I'd never actually tried making them in there.Then a while ago we were having people round for drinks and I decided to make a chilli in the slow cooker but thought it would be nice to serve it with baked potatoes instead of rice (less chance of food dropping off the fork ;-)).As I had enough to think about, I decided to try making the jacket potatoes in the slow cooker rather than the oven so I made each one a little wrapping out of foil, pricked it with a … [Read more...]
Five Frugal things I’ve done this week to save money {20th Febuary 2015}….
Half term is not usually one of the frugal-est (is that a word) weeks of the year but I don't think we've done too badly this week. Five frugal things I've done this week: 1. Miss Frugal isn't growing that much so she hasn't grown out of many clothes but her taste has changed so much since she started secondary school so we had a sort through of her wardrobe this week. Because she's quite small, she's still got clothes that we bought for her in Year 5 so you can imagine that her taste has changed massively now that she's as a much more sophisticated (;-)) Year 7 girl. We photographed what … [Read more...]
#Thrifty Thursday – How to organise your shoes….
Miss Frugal has a lot of shoes!It's not that she has a shoe obsession or anything but as I mentioned in my post about her school shoes the other week, her feet haven't grown very much at all in the last year or so which means that she's not growing out of shoes. This little lot is what she's accumulated over the last year or so (both pairs of Converse were part of a review on here).She's not the tidiest person in the world so we needed to try and get a system in place that was easy and quick for her to use to store her shoes so we went for the photos on a box approach.We … [Read more...]
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