About Me

This is us according to 6 year old Master Frugal

I am a working mum of two beautiful children aged 9 and 6 (and a gorgeous Bichon Frise puppy). Not long ago I realised that we needed to sort out our spending habits and that if both my husband and I were both going to work full time, we needed to make sure that the time we spend at home with the kids was quality time (a cliche, but true). Now we’re learning to live a more frugal life and spending more time together as a family.

Since starting this blog, we’ve managed to change our spending habits enough that I have been able to reduce my hours at work which means I am now able to drop them off at breakfast club and be there again to pick them up from school which is fantastic but there’s still a long way to go and a lot more money to be saved and made….

The Diary of a Frugal Family is my blog about our journey through life. My plan is to get the blog made into a book for the children when they are older so they remember all the happy times we had while they were growing up (by make into a book, I don’t mean I have aspirations of being a real life writer, I just mean I’ll print it out, punch holes in it and stick it in a pretty folder).

I blog quite a lot about our weekly meal plans and the family friendly frugal meals that we eat and about the different ways that we’ve discovered to save money but I also write about the fun and dramas of our everyday life.

Feel free to e mail me about anything at: cass@frugalfamily.co.uk

I also have a second blog that I write with Jen from TheMadHouse – Frugalicious Food. This is where we share all of our meal planning tips and favourite frugal recipes. Feel free to pop over and have a look around.