Remember before Christmas when I told you that I was trying to focus more on experiences rather than gifts?Well one of Master Frugal's experiences took place this week and it was amazing - far better than I had expected and worth every penny we paid for it.He's a huge Boro fan and follows them avidly so when he didn't really ask for much at Christmas we had no idea what to buy him as his main present. It felt like we'd be buying him something for the sake of it as he hadn't really asked for anything and didn't really need anything. So we started thinking about what sort of experience … [Read more...]
Curried Swede Soup – healthy, homemade and delicious….
Soup is definitely my favourite lunch - especially since I started to experiment with flavours that I wouldn't necessarily have put together in the past!Last week I tried a curried swede soup after I found a 500g pack of ready prepared swede in Asda reduced to 37p, to be honest though, the full price was only 50p so it's well worth the money anyway if you ask me. I bought it with the intention of using it as a cottage pie topping instead of mash but the kids looked horrified at that so I googled 'swede' and 'soup' for a bit of inspiration.Curried swede soup was definitely the most … [Read more...]
Five Frugal things I’ve done this week {26th February 2016}….
How on earth is it nearly March?1) I bought a of pack of ready peeled and chopped swede reduced to 37p from the shop the other day and made a gorgeous curried swede soup which was delicious. It was just what I needed for lunch when it was -1 c outside!2) I went to Ikea at the weekend for a look around to get some inspiration and ideas for our house this year and although I came away brimming with ideas, I actually only spent £2 and that was on a gorgeous little plant pot type thing that I'm using as a pen holder at the moment. I even used my Ikea family card to get a free cuppa … [Read more...]
Small things that make me smile {February 2016}….
You're probably sick of me telling you by now that my word for 2016 is Happy and that I'm hoping to do more of the things that make me happy and less of the things don't.I'm trying not just to think of the big things or the things that I do or don't do though because it's to me, it's also about appreciating the smaller things in life that aren't really a big deal to anyone other than me. It's these small things add up to make my life a happy one!Here's some of the small things that have made me happy this month....Last night was time for Master Frugal's long awaited Christmas … [Read more...]
What lessons are we teaching our children about money….
What did your parents teach you about money?Two things I remember being told are that money doesn't grow on trees and also being told that you don't get paid for what you do, it's what you know how to do - neither of them seem like huge life lessons, do they?But they really are.... Money doesn't grow on trees Money doesn't grow on trees comes from the fact that it's easy to think that money is endless - especially to a child who sees you walk up to a cash machine and walk away with cash or watches you hand over your card to pay for things as it just looks so easy to them.It's … [Read more...]
How to help your child be a better friend….
It wasn't until it was time to apply for a secondary school for Miss Frugal that I thought seriously about the huge part that friends could play in her happiness.Regular readers might remember that we were faced with the hardest decision we'd had to make since becoming parents when choosing what secondary school to send her to. We had to choose between sending her to the school all of her friends were going to which we knew to have poor education standards and even worse disciplinary standards, or to the local faith school where she wouldn't know a single person but would get a great … [Read more...]
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