The Diary of a Frugal Family | Living a Fabulously Frugal Family Life

How to up your #Shelfie game….

29569Leave a CommentHow+to+up+your+%23Shelfie+game....2018-10-21+09%3A42%3A07Cassandra October 21, 2018 By Cassandra
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If you follow me on Instagram then you'll probably already know how much I love a good bunch of bargain flowers and at least once a week I stalk the reduced section of our local supermarkets to see if I can find a good deal. If you time it right, you can get some gorgeous flowers that will look fab for a good week for just a pound or two.I often see some great reductions on houseplants too but I've always avoided them in the past because I don't have the best record with managing to keep houseplants alive! But last year, I couldn't resist this little guy for £1.50 so I popped him in my … [Read more...]

10 Rock Painting Ideas…

29498Leave a Comment10+Rock+Painting+Ideas...2018-10-20+09%3A00%3A26Cassandra October 20, 2018 By Cassandra
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I have a plan to paint some pretty rocks and write the names of the things I plant in my greenhouse and around the garden on them so when I had a few minutes earlier in the week, I thought I'd have a little look through Pinterest to find out the best way to go about it. There were so many rock painting ideas on there that I wanted to share that I thought I'd do a bit of a round up of them for you all.I just wish the kids were a bit younger as we could have had hours of rock painting fun if I'd realised it was a thing before now - the closest we ever came to rock painting was when they … [Read more...]

Five Frugal Things we did this week {19 October 2018}….

292022 Comments2018-10-19+19%3A29%3A55Cassandra October 19, 2018 By Cassandra
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Every week I share five frugal things that I've done during that 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.Before I start though, I do want to say that being frugal to me is about getting the best value for our money - it's not about doing without for us or about not having nice things. We all have different financial situations and we're all frugal for different reasons - we're frugal so we can afford to do nice things together.1) I just had to call British Airways about my … [Read more...]

3 Ingredient DIY Natural Face Cleanser…

29506Leave a Comment2018-10-18+09%3A00%3A43Cassandra October 18, 2018 By Cassandra
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Today I wanted to share my amazing 3 Ingredient DIY Natural Face Cleanser with you. This homemade DIY facial cleanser will not only lift impurities from the surface of your skin but will also leave your face feeling soft and rehydrated.You can spend an absolute fortune on skin care these days and there's no denying that the ranges of expensive products that you can buy will no doubt do wonders for your skin - or at least they should do if all the claims of scientific research and promises of youthful looking skin are to be believed. ;-)But can homemade do the same job? Can you … [Read more...]

October in my garden….

29389Leave a CommentOctober+in+my+garden....2018-10-17+09%3A00%3A33Cassandra October 17, 2018 By Cassandra
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I know it's completely the wrong time of year but last weekend, I sat and made a bit of a plan for what I want my garden to look like and how I want it to be more than just a place to sit and enjoy the sun!I thought it might be nice to try and document the progress I make out there by sharing a bit of an update every now and again so today, I'm sharing what my plan is and what the garden looks like right now!For years, our garden was just an outdoor playground with a 12 ft trampoline, numerous bats, balls and rackets and just about every garden game going. We could (and did) spend … [Read more...]

Is Financial Trading Only for Rich People?

29556Leave a Comment2018-10-16+16%3A52%3A21Cassandra October 16, 2018 By Cassandra
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My main financial goal for this year was to get us to the stage where we were debt free and starting to make some serious in-roads into our mortgage and I'm pleased that we actually managed to achieve that a good few months before the date I had in my head for getting to that point.I had in my head that we'd be debt free and comfortable with our mortgage overpayment by the 1st November so we could relax a little over the Christmas period before picking up with next year's goal of 'investing' in January. I use the word investing quite loosely as we're really trying to explore our options in … [Read more...]