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

How to paint your dining room table….

35121Leave a CommentHow+to+paint+your+dining+room+table....2019-11-12+10%3A00%3A18Cassandra November 12, 2019 By Cassandra
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Have you ever wondered how to paint your dining room table? If you have then you're absolutely in the right place and even if you haven't, I still think you should read on and I'll tell you why I think you might want to consider painting yours!We bought our dining room table second hand from a friend who was selling it back in 2016 when we paid £40 for it - a total bargain considering what a well-built table it is. I love the design of the table and when we bought it, I really loved its shabby chic style with the dark wood top and the off white distressed effect on the legs … [Read more...]

Esso Nectar – a great way to collect Nectar Points….

34931Leave a Comment2019-11-11+21%3A07%3A04Cassandra November 11, 2019 By Cassandra
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I'm working with Esso today to tell you all about the Esso Nectar Loyalty programme. As always, all opinions are absolutely my own though.Anyone who knows me knows that there's nothing I like more than anything that saves me time or money!Which is why I'm super pleased today to be telling you all about the Esso Nectar loyalty programme which gives Esso customers the chance to earn Nectar Points whilst filling up on fuel at participating service stations.As you probably know if you're a regular reader, I drive a LOT of miles each day for my commute to and from work so … [Read more...]

Spicy Gingerbread Lip Scrub

34966Leave a CommentSpicy+Gingerbread+Lip+Scrub2019-11-11+10%3A00%3A39Cassandra November 11, 2019 By Cassandra
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This Spicy Gingerbread Lip Scrub is exactly what you need to give your lips a bit of a treat!At this time of year, my lips always seem to get super dry and often a little bit chapped but this Spicy Gingerbread Lip Scrub is perfect to soothe them and to stop them drying out! It's also easy to make and used things that I bet you have in your kitchen cupboards so you won't even have to go out and buy anything! What you need to make your own homemade spicy gingerbread lip scrub100g brown sugar 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil or coconut oil (in its liquid form) ¼ … [Read more...]

Five Frugal Things we did this week {8 November 2019}….

348731 Comment2019-11-08+08%3A00%3A58Cassandra November 8, 2019 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, as always feel that I should 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. ;-) 1. I bought bargain Orchids Opening up this week's five frugal things, I have some … [Read more...]

Why we’re planning a handmade Christmas….

34663Leave a Comment2019-11-07+10%3A00%3A10Cassandra November 7, 2019 By Cassandra
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For a couple of years, I've wanted to make a bit of a change to our family's Christmas celebrations - this year I'm finally doing it. Read on to find out why we're planning a handmade Christmas and what that looks like for us...Why we're making a change Usually, from about the middle of November, our lives start to go into overdrive with so much going on across everyone's lives that I get exhausted just thinking about it.There are all the usual Christmas school and work commitments, the fun Christmas days out, the gift choosing and shopping, the wrapping, the visiting, the Secret … [Read more...]

Homemade Advent Calendars for grown-ups….

35085Leave a Comment2019-11-06+17%3A00%3A18Cassandra November 6, 2019 By Cassandra
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Earlier on today, I shared some a post with 10 homemade Advent Calendar ideas and as I pressed publish, it occurred to me that all of the ideas were aimed at kids. That didn't seem fair so I thought I'd see if I could find some ideas for homemade advent calendars for grown-ups...I'm not going to lie, I struggled to find many ideas for homemade advent calendars for grown-ups which I kind of get but at the same time, I love Christmas almost as much now as a grown-up as I did as a child - maybe even more so. ;-)I got some great ideas from fellow bloggers though and I'm hoping to … [Read more...]