Have you started thinking about what you want to achieve in 2020? In case you're stuck for ideas, I thought I'd share a few ideas for New Year resolutions you can actually keep.This time of year, between Christmas and New Year, is a time that I look forward to every year. The chaos of Christmas has passed and we're looking forward to a lovely shiny New Year. I spend time reflecting on the year that's passed and thinking about what I want from the year ahead and because I love a good list, I love to write a list of New Years Resolutions.Because I'm procrastinating … [Read more...]
Is a New York Pass worth the money – Part Two…
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….
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….
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….
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...]
Christmas Traditions even your teenagers will enjoy…
Are your teenagers too cool for lots of your Christmas traditions now? Mine too! Here's some Christmas traditions that even your teenagers will enjoy!Ever since we had kids, one of the best things about Christmas has always been the Christmas family traditions that we've either started as a new family or carried on from when Mr Frugal and I were children ourselves.Last year though, we really noticed a difference in the things that the kids wanted to do with us and some of the things we've done ever since they were toddlers didn't go down as well as they used … [Read more...]
