Our next holiday is coming up at the end of July and this time we're off to the Isle of Wight which is somewhere that we've never been before. Like all of our trips away this year, it's nothing flash but we are excited and we can't wait to go.We booked it last year and paid a super low deposit of just £25 which was great for us at the time as it was right before Christmas and we've been paying a little bit off each month since then. Now it's paid off in full we're starting to think about our spending money so I thought I'd resurrect and update a post that I first shared in 2012.It's … [Read more...]
How to start a blog of your own in 7 super simple steps….
Updated for 2017 as I've just come across a great deal for a domain name and hosting - read on....Do you want to start a blog of your own? I have a rule here on my blog that I don't blog about blogging but seeing as rules are meant to be broken, I'm breaking it today. I'm breaking it to share some advice about how to start a blog because two lovely ladies have emailed me this week to ask me how they would set up a blog of their own.It's actually a question I get asked quite often so I thought I'd share my top tips to help you set up a blog of your own on here so I can (a) go into … [Read more...]
Visiting the San Siro Stadium in Milan….
The minute I booked our little trip to Milan, Master Frugal was on his phone searching for information about how to get booked on a tour of the San Siro Football Stadium.He's football mad just like his Dad so a visit to the San Siro was naturally the first thing he thought about when we mention Milan and it was top of my list of to-do things when I was planning our trip as I knew how much they would both enjoy a tour of the iconic stadium. To be fair, we've done a few stadium tours as a family in our time (Old Trafford, Nou Camp, Barcelona, Anfield and the Riverside) and we always enjoyed … [Read more...]
Parents of Snapchat Users NEED to read this….
I'm pretty sure I've told you all before (probably many times) that Miss Frugal is a Snapchat fan. She uses the app to keep in touch with her friends and there's nothing she likes more than a good Snapchat filter.Usually I don't have an issue with her using the app - she knows how I expect her to behave when she's using social media and the rules she need follow such as only adding people she knows and never sharing personal details about herself like her address.That last one is a biggie! We've drilled into her repeatedly that she should never share her address online with people … [Read more...]
How to make money on eBay selling new products….
It's Saturday morning which means it's time for the fourth post in my 'How to Make Money' series.I do hope you're enjoying the ideas that I've been sharing and that you've enjoyed reading my fellow UK Money Bloggers experiences, I know I've learned a lot personally from them and I think it's better for you guys that I ask others to share their real life experiences instead of me just googling the information to share with you. ;-)This week's post is all about how to make money from selling on eBay which is definitely something I've considered doing in the past but as I haven't done … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things I’ve done this week {23rd June 2017}….
1) Last weekend when it was ridiculously hot I bought some cheap reduced price lemons and lovely Miss Frugal made me some homemade lemonade as she knows how much I enjoy her lemonade. She usually makes mint lemonade but we didn't have any mint so she just made it plain and it was so refreshing.Not sure it was worth the clean up in the kitchen that she left me though!Also, you can tell she's grown up with me blogging as she made the lemonade, took a photo of it worthy of Instagram and remembered to tell me what she used to make it! Then she told me I owed her £5 which is our … [Read more...]
