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) I've been off work this week so I've worked really hard to get my life back into some form of order! I've done a review of my budget and cancelled a few of the extra little monthly things that have crept in since I last did one - no idea what came over me when I ordered a monthly stationery subscription box and I'm nowhere near grown-up … [Read more...]
15 Basic Money Management Tips….
We're going back to basics today with these 15 basic but essential money management tips!Over the last six months as my life has been ridiculously busy and if I'm honest, budgeting has probably been the last thing on my mind most of the time - managaeble only because our outgoings were significantly less with the kids on lockdown at home and our income was significantly increased due to all of the overtime I was working. Now we're having to deal with the fact that this is our new normal and our outgoings are creeping back up while the overtime is on the decline so I don't have … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {18th September 2020}….
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! 👐Ugh, it's been one of those weeks this week! I'm pretty much done in and ready to hibernate this weekend with absolutely no plans to do anything other than watch TV shows on Netflix and Hayu that don't require any brain cells at all. 1) You will NEVER guess what? I've finally painted the wall behind my bed which, if you've … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {4th September 2020}….
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) A while ago, I shared how I'd painted my lovely old dining room table white.A couple of people at the time asked me why I'd chosen white to paint the table as white isn't the most practical colour for a dining room table - a fact I totally get! I went for white because, at the time, I was on a mission to paint all of the walls in my house … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {28th August 2020}….
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) I'm kind of disappointed with this first one but it is what it is I guess - I bought a tumble drier after 10 years+ of managing without one. We got rid of our tumble drier when we moved house as it wasn't the most energy-efficient model even back then and I just felt like it was unnecessary so we popped it on Freecycle and a very … [Read more...]
Five (almost) Frugal Things we did this week {21st August 2020}….
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. I'm not perfect though - far from it - so for this week's post I thought I'd share a few of the 'almost' frugal things that I did this week.Hey! 👐1) Look at these little beauties...The big guy in the front was a bargain from the reduced section because it looks a bit worse for wear up close and he's a bit wonky so I picked him up and thought I'd take him … [Read more...]
