One of my proudest moments as a parent so far was when Master Frugal spent some of his own money on some food for a homeless man who we saw in London when we were there for the weekend earlier in the year. I was so proud that he thought more of someone else's welfare than he did of his own enjoyment (he had big plans for that money in Hamleys).He bought a cup of tea and some muffins for the man and gave him them himself (watched closely by me) and I almost cried at the time as the man was so grateful and thanked him genuinely.Ever since then I've been meaning to find our local food … [Read more...]
Getting ready for Winter….
It's getting colder by the day and although we tried to last as long as we could, our heating is now back on for the first time since Spring and this, added to the fact that the nights are drawing in and X factor is back on TV can only mean one thing - Winter's coming.Now I know it might still seem early but it's October next week and I did read somewhere that we''re going to have a really cold Winter with snow forecast as early as October. So I'm going to start getting ready for Winter over the next couple of weeks.Here's our to-do list:Check the Emergency car bag and make sure … [Read more...]
How do you deal with nightmares and bad thoughts….
Last night Miss Frugal came downstairs about 10 'o' clock in floods of tears. She told us that she'd woken up after having a nightmare and whenever she closed her eyes to try and get back to sleep, she could see dead people and people dying!It turns out that a school trip to Eden Camp this week has affected her quite a lot to the point where she can't stop thinking about some of the tragedies they learned about.If you don't know Eden Camp, it's a museum made up of huts. Each one telling a story about a different aspect of World War 2 and when I searched for the link to include, the … [Read more...]
Cleaning like my mam used to clean….
I remember when I was growing up, my mam used to have a cleaning schedule - not because she was a neat freak but because she wanted to make sure that over the course of a month, everything got done.I used to do something similar but gradually, over the last year or so, I've stopped following my schedule which means that rather than doing little and often, I regularly end up having a big blitz which obviously takes up a chunk of time that I'd rather be using to do something other than cleaning.I've decided I'm starting it again though so I've written out my two week cleaning plan (yes … [Read more...]
What we’re eating this week….
It's ridiculous how fast time is flying by at the moment isn't it?I'm sat here writing our meal plan and shopping list but it seems like only five minutes ago that I was writing last weeks! I'm still really tired but now I have a cold too so this week's plan is going to be almost as lazy as last week's was I'm afraid with comfort food all the way.... MondayRoasted veggies but I'll add some chicken or sausages to it I think and any leftovers will be added to cous cous for lunch the next day. TuesdayToad in the hole WednesdayBarbecue pulled pork ThursdayI'm not sure … [Read more...]
My Favourite Instagram photo of the week – a birthday selfie….
<div align="center"><a href="https://www.frugalfamily.co.uk/" title="The Diary of a Frugal Family"><img src="https://www.frugalfamily.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/instagram-image-badge1.png" alt="The Diary of a Frugal Family" style="border:none;" /></a></div> I know I'm always saying this but I take a lot of photos, many of which I post to Instagram each week.There's often a photo I post that either has more of a story behind it that I can tell on Instagram or that I want to share on here but it doesn't really warrant a whole post of it's own if you know … [Read more...]
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