Last Saturday morning, I took the plunge and joined my local Slimming World group and I thought there's no better way to hold myself accountable for sticking to it than by telling you lovely people. So, here's the story of the first (hopefully of many) weeks on my weight loss journey!I've been to Slimming World before a good few years ago and found it quite easy to lose weight following the plan which is by far the easiest 'diet' to follow that I've ever come across. I was doing quite well when I had a few health issues in 2016 which meant I needed an operation to put … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {25 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. ;-)I feel like this week is the first week this year where life in our house has been calm, or … [Read more...]
Soothing Homemade Vapour Rub….
It's that time of year when everyone seems to be suffering from sniffly noses and sore throats! I thought it was probably a good time to share my amazing homemade Vapour RubLast Christmas (not the one just gone, the one before) we were all chock full of cold from the weekend before the kids broke up for school until well into January - possibly February if I remember rightly. The kids especially were coughing so much that even when they had the energy to actually get dressed and do something, I was reluctant to let them venture outside as the cold on their chest brought on coughing … [Read more...]
10 things I’m going to achieve in 2019….
I know we're closer to the end of January than the start but I've been meaning to write this post for weeks now but I just haven't got around to it! I wanted to share with you 10 things that I want to achieve in 2019 - some of which I've started on, some are planned and the rest need some work but they're all things that I'm determined to achieve this year.1. Improve my health I'll share more about this one at the weekend but basically, my health goal this year is to get more active and lose weight. 2. Read more 'meaningful' books I read a lot at the moment, in fact, I … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {18 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) Did you catch my batch cooking post on Monday? I somehow managed to cook twelve meals to … [Read more...]
Eight Essential Pinterest Strategy Tips….
Last year I was lucky enough to spend some time with the lovely Pinterest team at their HQ in San Fransisco! It was a fantastic trip and I learned so much that I came home determined to put everything into practice. I did get started on implementing some of the things I learned but life got in the way and I never got around to most of them - in fact, I didn't have much (any) time for Pinterest for most of last year but it's one area that I do want to focus on in 2019 so I've been reviewing my Pinterest to do list and I thought I'd share some basic Pinterest Strategy Tips to get the … [Read more...]
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