1) Last weekend when it was ridiculously hot I bought some cheap reduced price lemons and lovely Miss Frugal made me some homemade lemonade as she knows how much I enjoy her lemonade. She usually makes mint lemonade but we didn't have any mint so she just made it plain and it was so refreshing.Not sure it was worth the clean up in the kitchen that she left me though!Also, you can tell she's grown up with me blogging as she made the lemonade, took a photo of it worthy of Instagram and remembered to tell me what she used to make it! Then she told me I owed her £5 which is our … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things I’ve done this week {16th June 2017}….
1) Last weekend poor little Buddy was scratching himself a lot and was clearly uncomfortable so I called the vets in town and got an appointment for him to see what was going on. Our vets charge £29 for an appointment plus extra for any necessary medication so when I found out he had a bacterial infection that was going to need steroids and antibiotics as well as at least one follow up appointment I knew I was looking at an expensive bill. The receptionist mentioned a monthly care plan that I could take for him which would give me unlimited appointments for free along with free worming and … [Read more...]
Win an Amazon Dot with Switchcraft….
I switched energy providers last year and saved a fortune!There was none of the issues I'd been dreading and everything went smoothly so I spend the next few months telling everyone that I was on a great deal and that they should all be doing their research and making sure that they switched to better deals to save as much money as I was saving.It was only because I was so busy telling everyone that they should switch that someone pointed out to me a couple of months after my switch that they had indeed taken my advice and switched but that they were pretty sure that their deal was … [Read more...]
Free Monthly ‘No Spend Days’ Printable Tracker {and a review of the worlds smallest all in one printer}….
No Spend Days How many days a week are there where you can honestly say that you haven't spent a single penny?I bet there's not too many because, most of the time, it's actually quite a hard thing to do unless you really focus on it. But if you could manage just a couple of days each week where you make a conscious effort not to spend any money at all then imagine what you could do with the money you save.I've written before about how we make no spend days work for us as a family so I won't go into too much detail today but basically on a day I want to be a no spend day, I'll try … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did in Milan….
Last week we were lucky enough to have a lovely family break in Milan which I was going to tell you all about in another post but I decided to work it into this week's five frugal things post because it was such a frugal break yet such an enjoyable one.First of all, I'm going to tell you how much I paid for it because it was an unbelievable price for what we got!We traveled with Easyjet and paid £435 in TOTAL for four of us to fly to Milan from Edinburgh and stay for four nights in a four star hotel with breakfast. The price included everything but transfers and insurance (which we … [Read more...]
11 complete wastes of money (and how to avoid them)….
Do you waste money?I bet most of you said no to that question but I wonder if your answer will be the same after you've read this list of 11 ways that people waste money every day....Food Waste is a big one because, according to the stats from Love Food Hate Waste, families in the UK thow away around 7 million tonnes of food and drink from our homes every single year and and at least half of this could have been eaten. That's a scary fact isn't it - even more so when you consider that this wastage cost the average family with children around £700 a year which is £60 ish every month. … [Read more...]
