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) Monday night after work, I had some kind of Domestic Goddess moment and made some roasted sweet potato and bean with feta cheese quesadillas and while the sweet potato was roasting, I made a beef ragu type thing to pop in the fridge for tea on Tuesday. All from food that needed using up in the fridge.So Monday night's tea was the … [Read more...]
10 ways to reuse glass jam jars…
In the spirit of being sustainable and reusing as much as you possibly can around the house, I thought you might like to see a few ideas on how to reuse glass jam jars.I actually started this post (if taking two photographs counts as starting a post) a good few months ago now and then forgot all about the idea until this week when I saw a post on Facebook about how the owners of the company who make my favourite brand of jam, Bonne Maman, actually hid a family in Paris during World War 2 as part of the Nazi resistance effort. The story was really heartwarming but potentially (as with … [Read more...]
Are you financially resilient? This is what I do to help me to prepare for a financial crisis….
Let's have a chat today about financial resilience - specifically about what I do to ensure that I'm as financially resilient as I can be and to hopefully give you some ideas on how you can be too!More so than at any other time I can remember, it's so important right now to be financially resilient. I genuinely feel like we're all about to go through some pretty hard times and being as prepared as possible for that is a huge priority for me right now! What is financial resilience? So, first of all, you might be scratching your head and asking yourself what financial resilience even … [Read more...]
Windfall Homemade Applesauce – easy to make and super tasty….
I'm resharing this post a couple of years after it was first published as I made a batch of applesauce over the weekend with some apples that a lovely friend brought round when she popped in for a cuppa - this time I added some of my lovely apple pie spice mix too and I've saved some to make a batch of Autumn Crumble tarts so I can share some with the friend who gave me the apples.One of my best bargains from the Festival of Thrift this weekend was the big bag of free windfall apples. I was planning to make an apple pie with them but I thought I'd make a batch of homemade applesauce … [Read more...]
Social Media MADE me buy it….
Does anyone else buy random things after seeing them advertised on Social Media?I realised a little while ago that I'm like an advertisers dream right now as I've bought things recently that I may not have even known existed if it hadn't been for Facebook and its advertising algorithms that somehow know what I want before I even know myself. Then Instagram joined the party and started targeting me with some pretty accurate ad targeting so I changed the name of this series to Social Media made me buy it.(To be clear: none of these items are sponsored or gifted, they're all … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {10th September 2021}….
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) OK, now we're properly into September, I thought we'd be good to start talking about a Christmas every now and again?I'm not planning on going overboard so don't worry but some of the things I want to make as gifts do need a bit of prep in advance like the homemade Limoncello that I started making last weekend. I bought a 35cl … [Read more...]
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