Do you suffer from excessive sweating under your arms?I do and if untreated, it means that I start to develop embarrassing little sweat patches under my arms by mid-morning and by mid afternoon, depending on what I'm wearing, they're grown that big that they're pretty much visible to the people in the next street.(OK, the bit about the people in the next street seeing them is a slight exaggeration but they're definitely noticeable and certainly make me feel very self conscious.)If you suffer from excessive sweating then you'll probably understand when I say that before I discovered … [Read more...]
No Cook Popcorn Crispy Cakes….
As much as I love my family, it drives me mad when, no matter how many times I tell them, when they use the last of something the box does not go back in the cupboard! I've lost count of the times that I've got something out of the cupboard or the fridge only to find that the box is empty!It drives me loopy, especially when I've already melted some chocolate ready to make cornflake cakes and find that the big box of cornflakes in the cupboard is empty and there's only about a handful left in the rice crispies box!I had nothing else in that would work so I was torn between abandoning … [Read more...]
Five Fabulously Frugal Things I’ve done this week {3rd June 2016}….
This week has been a pretty good week in our house - both in the frugal and the family sense. ;-)1) For the last couple of months I've been organising a charity football match for work and I'll be honest, I've been losing a little bit of sleep as I was worrying that we'd bitten off more than we could chew and that it would all go wrong on the day. I couldn't have been more wrong as I couldn't have ever imagined a more successful day - starting with Master Frugal scoring a penalty at his beloved Riverside Stadium and ending with Mr Frugal scoring the winning goal in the final minutes of … [Read more...]
Five things you can make using a wafflemaker (and none of them are waffles)….
Last week I got some John Lewis vouchers sent to me as a thank you for something I did ages ago - so long ago in fact that I'd managed to forget they were coming so you can imagine my delight when I opened the post and saw the vouchers!I thought about buying something sensible like towels or something totally unnecessary like a handbag. I even considered getting a head start on some Christmas shopping but I kept wandering back to the waffle maker that I've been lusting over for the last few months.I've been tempted by the delicious pictures that Tanya often posts of the creations she's … [Read more...]
Children are never too young to learn about money….
One thing I can never understand is the fact that, here in the UK, we spend almost 13 years (from aged 3-16) teaching our children things that someone, somewhere has decided that they need to know but we spend no time at all teaching them basic money management skills.I know for a fact that I would rather my children learn about financial matters so they can leave school confident that they know how to calculate and manage a monthly budget and that they know about the many financial products that are out there. I'm pretty sure they'll find that more useful than learning about the features … [Read more...]
Days Out: Middleham Castle and Forbidden Corner….
Last weekend we were looking for a bit of a special day out to celebrate the end of SATs for Master Frugal and the end of a hard exam week for Miss Frugal and after much debate we decided to visit Middleham Castle and Forbidden Corner. Middleham Castle Middleham Castle is somewhere I've wanted to visit for years now as I've read about it's history as a setting in a number of different books. It was the childhood home of King Richard III (also known as the Kingmaker) and is steeped in history and tragedy.It's probably one of my favourite places that we've been since we joined English … [Read more...]
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