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 can't believe how fast the days are going at the moment and I'm not going to lie, anything money-saving that I've done this week hasn't been down to me really. The shops are off-limits for the most part, I'm working super long days with free food and drink at work and the kids are confined to the house so there's very little that they need money … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {27th March 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. How on earth has it been two weeks since I last posted on here? It's been two weeks in which the world seems to have gone absolutely mad and I actually think this is the first time I've opened my Macbook since my last post which is the longest time ever between posts since I started blogging way back when. 1) First things first, I'm classed … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {13th March 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. 1) Master Frugal is taking GCSE Food Tech and some of the ingredients he is asked to take in are a bit random but so far, we've had a lot of them in the house already so haven't had to spend a fortune like some parents might have had to do. Monday's recipe needed no less than six different herbs and spiced and we had every single one of them in our cupboard - good … [Read more...]
10 frugal habits you NEED to learn….
Obviously, you know that I'm a fan of saving money, right? I'm the first to admit that it's not been particularly easy for me to switch to a frugal mindset and truth be told, I'm probably not as frugal as I could be these days. Over the years though, some of the things I've done have become habits and it's those frugal habits that mean that even when I'm not thinking frugally, I'm still doing OK!These are some of the frugal habits that I didn't do before but I now do automatically: 10 Frugal Habits you need to learn! Meal planning Meal planning is the one … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {6th March 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. 1) So this one isn't all that money-saving for me but it will be for whoever gets the benefit so I'm sharing it anyway. :-)I took all of Master Frugal's ski things into school and asked them to pass them on to someone who'll be going on next year's school ski trip. He's growing so quick that even if he was to go skiing again in future, he'd need new things … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {28th February 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. 1) Did you see Sunday's batch cooking triumph?I won't go into too much detail as I write a whole post about it on Monday but basically, I spent some time on Sunday batch cooking this week's meals. I made all sorts and at one point I had something in the oven, something cooking on the hob and the Instant Pot and slow cooker doing their thing on the … [Read more...]
