I love travelling and discovering new places with my little family but one thing I learned after our recent trip to Milan is that our holidays now need to planned slightly differently to when the kids were younger.With Miss Frugal now at the grand old age of 14 and her brother slightly younger at 12, we've been through the years where they got along like a house on fire and actually enjoyed each other's company and the (thankfully) short phase where they hated the sight of each other. We're now in the much more comfortable phase where they manage to tolerate each other for the most part … [Read more...]
3 super simple tricks to help you save….
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...]
