I love a good Secret Santa with my friends at work but we generally opt for a lower budget because, let's face it, Christmas is expensive enough as it is.We've had a year where we set the budget at £1 per person with the idea being that you had to get the most creative gift that you could for that amount. We got all sorts of gifts from candles to cactus plants dressed up as Santa and it was much more fun than opening the inevitable chocolates, biscuits and alcohol that we would have no doubt seen if we'd had a higher budget.This year, we're going for a slightly higher budget of £5.00 … [Read more...]
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Magpie Monday – More Bargains….
The first bargain I want to share this week is the outfit I bought for Miss Frugal's first grown up disco the week before last. She was so excited about this disco as it's the first one since she went up to the Juniors and even though she'd been talking about it for weeks beforehand, it wasn't until the night before that she decided that she wanted a new outfit to wear.I told her she didn't need new clothes as she had plenty in her wardrobe and marched her upstairs to prove my point but her bedroom looked like a jumble sale - she'd already tried almost everything in her wardrobe … [Read more...]
8 reasons why buying second-hand clothes is the future..
Today, I've got 8 reasons why buying second-hand clothes is the future for you. :-) I'm not going to lie, I think reason one is enough all on its own but I added the rest in case you still needed a bit of persuasion.I shared a post a couple of weeks ago where I asked the question 'Are charity shops too expensive?' and it got me started on all the reasons why buying second-hand clothes is the way to go. My reasons started to take over the whole post so I dialled it back and copied it over to this post as this topic really does deserve a post of its own.I share a post every … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {7th September 2024}….
Every week (ish) I share five frugal things that I've done during the previous week just to show you that the small things you do all add up to a great frugal lifestyle where you can learn to live a fabulously frugal life. Hey! 👐1) OK, we're going old school today and starting this post with some bargain flowers. These little beauties cost me £1.50 from the flower shop on our village High Street last weekend and have been sitting on my kitchen windowsill ever since.I love that I got a bargain well supporting a small High Street business at the … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {12th May 2024}….
Every week (ish) I share five frugal things that I've done during the previous week just to show you that the small things you do all add up to a great frugal lifestyle where you can learn to live a fabulously frugal life. Hey! 👐1) Remember the handbag I bought from the charity shop in our village for a fiver?Well, I've had it on Vinted for ages at what I realise now was a super high price for the Vinted community so this week, I reduced it to £40 and it sold within an hour.It's currently on its way to its new home ready to be loved.Lesson of the … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did last week {12th November 2023}….
Every now and again (used to be weekly ;-), maybe it will be again) I share five frugal things that I've done during the previous week just to show you that the small things you do all add up to a great frugal lifestyle where you can learn to live a fabulously frugal life. Hey! 👐Long time no see! I've really got out of the habit of taking pictures of what I get up to so you'll have to forgive me as I try and write this post today as I'm pretty sure that I have no pictures of half of the things I'm going to be writing about. ;-)1) I've only gone … [Read more...]
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