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Is a New York Pass worth the money – Part Two…

35303Leave a Comment2019-12-22+18%3A02%3A31Cassandra December 22, 2019 By Cassandra
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Is a New York Pass worth the money? Read on and I'll tell you...The first time we went to New York we bought a New York pass but we never got around to doing half of the things we'd planned to do so it wasn't really worth the money for us. I wrote about what we did and why we never really got our money's worth but it was basically because it was our first time in New York and Miss Frugal was more interested in the shopping and visiting the places she'd seen on TV than doing much else. We had lovely weather on our first visit so being outside was easy - a walk across … [Read more...]

What Christmas in New York is really like….

December 22, 2019 By Cassandra
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Ever since I booked our Christmas in New York break everyone I've told has been super jealous, telling me how much they'd love to visit New York at Christmas time and how magical it was going to be. And don't get me wrong, we had the best time but it was a bit different to what I was expecting so today, I thought I'd share some of my favourite memories of our week away and tell you a little bit about what it was really like...Miss Frugal and I go away together every year together and have done since she was about 11. We started off small with weekend trips to London and … [Read more...]

Homemade cranberry and white chocolate cookie mason jar gift….

December 17, 2019 By Cassandra
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Remember my post about homemade mason jar gifts from last year ago? Well, today I'm sharing one of my favourite mason jar gifts with you - amazing homemade cranberry and white chocolate cookie mix and I'm pretty sure you're going to love this festive cookie mix as much as we do!How to assemble your cranberry and white chocolate cookie mason jar gift What you need:300g plain flour (2 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour if you're using US measurements) 1 tsp baking soda ½ tsp salt ¼ tsp cinnamon 200g dark brown sugar (1 cup) 100g granulated sugar (½ cup) 150g white chocolate … [Read more...]

3 AMAZING Christmas DIY Sugar Scrubs….

December 16, 2019 By Cassandra
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Every Christmas, my most popular post (other than my 5 minute Nutella Fudge) is my Christmas DIY Sugar Scrubs which so many of you loved. A lovely lady tagged me on Instagram at the weekend after making the gingerbread sugar scrub which reminded me that I wanted to reshare this post with you again!It's no secret that Miss Frugal loves a good DIY or that she loves her beauty products so you probably won't be surprised to hear that at least once a week, she makes herself a DIY sugar scrub using some sugar, coconut oil and whatever else she fancies adding in.She's brilliant at … [Read more...]

Five Frugal Things we did this week {13th December 2019}….

December 13, 2019 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. Before I start though, as always I feel that I should say that being frugal to me is about getting the best value for our money - it's not about doing without for us or about not having nice things. We all have different financial situations and we're all frugal for different reasons. ;-)I've put together a bumper list of all my Frugal Christmas posts if … [Read more...]

Homemade Gingerbread Wreath….

December 9, 2019 By Cassandra
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Last year, Master Frugal made the most amazing Gingerbread wreath at school and it looked amazing! It looked that good that when I shared a photo of it on Instagram, I got about ten DMs asking me to blog about it. I tend to shut my laptop over Christmas though so I never got around to sharing it - until now!How to make a gingerbread wreath 350g plain flour 175g brown sugar 100g butter 1 egg 5 tablespoons of golden syrup 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 2 teaspoons of ginger (Master Frugal used more because he loves the smell of the ginger so ours was very gingery) Icing … [Read more...]