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This month’s pre-loved bargains {January 2021}….

36856Leave a Comment2021-01-27+10%3A00%3A21Cassandra January 27, 2021 By Cassandra
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I love a good pre-loved bargain, whether it's from a charity shop, the car boot sale or even from somewhere online so I thought I'd start a bit of a monthly round-up of some of the pre-loved bargains that I buy each month. We've had a couple of month's break due to the most recent lockdown but I'm back with some January bargains!OK, I'm going to start with the pre-loved purchase that I suspect will have some people shaking their head in disgust but please bear with me... I treated myself after working a lot of overtime last year - most of the money I earned from the extra hours … [Read more...]

How to prepare for a No Spend Month….

278151 CommentHow+to+prepare+for+a+No+Spend+Month....2021-01-26+10%3A00%3A26Cassandra January 26, 2021 By Cassandra
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I know lots of people have been having a bit of a no spend month this month but I thought I'd do one in February instead so today, I'm sharing a few ideas on how to prepare for a no spend month.Before we start though, these are just ideas to help you prepare - they're not ways to cheat. ;-)There's no point spending a fortune in advance to stop you from spending throughout the month or spending double one day so you can spend nothing the next. To be fair though, you absolutely could do that if you wanted to but that's really not going to benefit anyone, is it?The idea of a … [Read more...]

Forgot your phone bathroom poster {Free Printable}….

36993Leave a Comment2021-01-23+10%3A00%3A00Cassandra January 23, 2021 By Cassandra
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Earlier in the week, I shared a cheeky sneak peek of a little poster that I'd made for our family bathroom and quite a few of you messaged me to ask me to share it with you so I've got a treat for you today - your very own Forgot Your Phone bathroom poster which you can print out and frame for your own bathroom. I should say first up though that I'm not funny enough to think of making a poster like this without a bit of Etsy inspiration. 😂. I was scrolling through for some ideas for bathroom themed prints for our bathroom wall as I wanted to take down the canvas prints that … [Read more...]

Five Frugal Things we did this week {22nd January 2021}….

368331 Comment2021-01-22+10%3A00%3A23Cassandra January 22, 2021 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. Hey! 👐I've been off work this week so I've done all sorts with plans to do even more over the weekend! I've had a fab week in all honestly and have caught up with so many things that I've been wanting to get done. I've been blogging daily this week though so you if you've followed along then you probably already know about most of these things! … [Read more...]

Day Six of my week off – Blog Catch up Day…

37158Leave a Comment2021-01-21+20%3A29%3A09Cassandra January 21, 2021 By Cassandra
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If you caught Sunday's post then you'll know that I've gone all old school this week and am blogging daily to share with you what I've been up to that day seeing as I have a week off work with LOTS of things on the t0-do list! I now realised why I stopped this kind of blogging! 😂I have pretty much nothing of interest to tell you today so I almost didn't write a post but I promised myself that I'd go back to this style of blogging for just a week so that's what I'm doing. I promise it's only for a week though so don't worry, normal service will be resumed shortly. I … [Read more...]

Day Five of my week off – Picture Hanging Day…

37084Leave a Comment2021-01-20+22%3A10%3A05Cassandra January 20, 2021 By Cassandra
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If you caught Sunday's post then you'll know that I've gone all old school this week and am blogging daily to share with you what I've been up to that day seeing as I have a week off work with LOTS of things on the t0-do list! Are you bored with my daily updates yet? 😂My mission today was to get the wing shot pictures that I made the other day up on the wall. You wouldn't think it would be that big a deal would you but I wanted to hang them halfway up my stairs on the wall but I knew it was going to be a struggle to get them up as high as I wanted them on the stairs … [Read more...]