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 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. ;-)1) Did you catch my batch cooking post on Monday? I somehow managed to cook twelve meals to … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {11 January 2019}….
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 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. ;-)1) We bought a HUGE joint of gammon last weekend when we went shopping. It was reduced to … [Read more...]
How to save money when you think you can’t afford to….
Do you have a savings account? Does it actually have some money in it?Today I'm going to share a post with you with some idea for how to save money when you think you can't afford to...I know it's not always easy to save, especially if you don't have much money spare anyway so I wanted to give you a few ideas on how to save when you think you can't afford to... Make it easy If you can, set up a second bank account and add the details to your online banking so you can quickly and easily transfer any money across to your savings account. The easier it is, the more likely you are … [Read more...]
Back to Basics with Budgeting Envelopes….
Today we're going back to budgeting basics with Budgeting Envelopes....It's one thing to sit yourself down, work out your monthly budget and decided how much you should be spending on what but actually sticking to it is a whole different ball game.Paying by card is so much more convenient these days, as is paying using your phone or even a wristband you can simply hold over a machine but they can make it that bit harder to keep track of what you're actually spending can't they?I wanted to share my budgeting envelopes system with you today because it makes it much easier to keep … [Read more...]
Completely Free 2019 Financial Planner Just for YOU….
After the success of my FREE financial planner over the last few years, I thought I'd make an even bigger and better planner to help keep us all on track with our finances in 2018. Introducing my 2019 FREE financial planner...I shared the first version of this planner a couple of years ago now and even though it was pretty basic, lots of you downloaded it and told me how helpful it was and how motivating you found it to be.The second version was very similar to the version that I'm sharing today and included lots of new pages that you lovely lot asked me to include. Again, I … [Read more...]
An affordable weekly savings challenge….
It's that time of year again where people are sharing their money saving challenges for the year all over social media so I thought I'd share my own affordable weekly savings challenge with you again today...You've probably seen the posts I'm talking about - they're all money saving challenge type posts which in theory are a really great idea. The most popular one that I've seen requires you to save £1 in the first week, £2 the next week, week 3 would be £3 and so on until you reach week 52 where you would save £52.The idea is that because you're building up gradually then you … [Read more...]
