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. Hey! 👐1) I love chopped pineapple but it's not the cheapest thing in the world to buy when you buy the ready prepared fresh pineapple chunks so this week, I decided to have a go at chopping my own up into chunks.I know, it's not rocket science that it's cheaper to prep your own but for some reason, I just always thought it was too much hassle to … [Read more...]
Homemade Linen Spray – perfect for refreshing your sheets….
Homemade linen spray is my new favourite thing! Linen Spray isn't just for posh people. 😂It also doesn't have to cost £45 like the linen spray I spotted in Jo Malone recently!You can make your own homemade linen spray for a fraction of the cost of the sop bought brands and then you too can have posh person bedding without having to shell out the big bucks.In all seriousness, homemade linen spray is literally just a mixture of water, witch hazel and your favourite essential oils! You literally pop all the ingredients in a bottle and shake them up and … [Read more...]
10 Self-care when you work from home tips….
Self-care when you work from home is essential! You don't have your usual colleagues around you to keep you sane and to bounce ideas off and your routine can feel like it's all over the place. Today, I've got some tips to share with you to help make your working from home life that little bit more manageable...I've written about what self-care means to me in the past but today I wanted to share more about that and how important it is that you really focus on self-care when you work from home.Working from home in one form or another is pretty much most people's dream job and over … [Read more...]
How Intentional Spending can change your life….
Have you heard of intentional spending before? It's something I first wrote about back in 2016 but it's been on my mind quite a bit lately so I thought it would be a good time to have a chat...Basically, intentional spending (to me anyway) is about consciously thinking about what I choose to spend our disposable income on and allowing myself to spend money on the things that make me feel happy. I might spend money on things that you think are a waste of money or are 'frivolous' purchases but I save money somewhere else in my budget to allow me to be able to spend on the … [Read more...]
Mexican Pasta Salad….
Mexican Pasta Salad is one of our new family favourites - it's super easy to make and easy to adapt to whatever you have in the house that needs using up...Last Summer, I made the most amazing homemade potato salad - in fact. I'm pretty sure that I called it the best potato salad you'd ever taste at the time and I still stand by that claim! 😂 I was making a batch of it last week and when I realised that I had a bit of the mayo and sour cream sauce mix leftover so I decided to try and make some sort of spicy pasta using some leftover pasta that I had in the fridge.I … [Read more...]
Six reasons to shop at a Farmers Market….
My favourite Sunday morning Farmers Market is back so it feels like a good time to share a few reasons why I think you should try and shop at a Farmers Market at least once to try it!Our local Farmer's Market has been cancelled for the last year or so with everything that's been going on but this week, I saw an announcement on Facebook that they were starting up again from this weekend so seeing as I was up earlyI completely get that a Farmers Market is not somewhere that you're going to get 'cheap' products and there won't be anything that can compete with the 'value' or 'own … [Read more...]
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