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...]
Homemade Cheesy Bread Buns….
This recipe for homemade cheesy bread buns is a super easy recipe that the kids will love to help with! Baking bread was always a favourite activity with my two when they were younger and even now, Master Frugal can always be tempted away from his Xbox if there's bread to be baked. Once a week, we'll have homemade pizzas for tea with the pizza base made by hand by one of the kids and we actually use the same recipe for bread buns as we do for our pizza bases so we don't even need to look now.These homemade cheesy bread buns are an old favourite of ours and seeing as … [Read more...]
Five free things to do in Cardiff….
Today's 'Five free things to do in Cardiff' post is the third in my series about free things to do around the UK as a family. Today's post is from the Claire who blogs over at Money Saving Central who's very kindly put together her favourite free things to do in Cardiff as it's not somewhere that I've ever been and I do really want to share posts from as many different towns or cites from across the UK. Five Free Things to do in Cardiff Cardiff MuseumThe National Museum is a free, public museum and art gallery based in the heart of Cardiff in Wales where you can … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {14th 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) This week's potato pancakes were a huge success now that I've figured out my secret ingredient (which clearly isn't such a secret seeing as I shared the recipe on Monday! I'd planned to have a little leftover mashed potato from the dinner I was planning but ended up with more than I expected Miss Frugal was asked to work at the last … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {7th 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) As always, my favourite way to start one of these weekly posts...These ones look a bit sad but they only cost 50p so I'm hoping they might cheer up once they've had a soak. I say this all of the time but I love fresh flowers, they really do make me smile so they're never a waste of money to me. 2) OK, we finally gave … [Read more...]
Sinking funds – what they are and how to use them….
Last week, I asked if you were financially resilient and one of the things I mentioned was using sinking funds to save for some of your expenses which is something that I don't currently do. I wanted to tell you a bit more about them though so I asked the very lovely Steph from Debt Free Family to pop over and tell you how she uses sinking funds.Hello! I’m Steph and I blog over at Debt free family (https://debtfreefamily.co.uk) where I write about family finances, earning a bit more and spending a bit less! I’m going to write today about sinking funds, what they are, the … [Read more...]
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