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) Fresh flowers make me happy but paying full price for flowers doesn't make me happy … [Read more...]
Simple Ways to Encourage Children to Learn…
I know I've said this before but I strongly believe that, as parents, we are just as responsible for our children's education as their teachers and schools are. For me though, it's never been about actually sitting them down and teaching them, it's always been more about turning everyday experiences into opportunities for learning. Miss Frugal is in college now and Master Frugal is in Year 10 studying for his GCSEs so I thought I'd share a few ideas on how you can do this yourself with your children...Read to themThe first one is an obvious one but I couldn't … [Read more...]
How to defrost a freezer safely….
I had no idea how to defrost a freezer until this last couple of weeks and you know what, I'd really rather than I hadn't have had to have a crash course in the subject but seeing as I have, I thought I'd share my newfound knowledge with you!You might have seen recently that my fridge freezer decided to have a temporary fit which took a couple of weeks to fix as we needed a special part ordering in. When it was finally fixed, we decided to move all of the food from the other under-counter freezer in the kitchen into the newly fixed freezer so we could give the under-counter one a … [Read more...]
How to make life insurance affordable….
As a family, it’s so important to have the right life insurance in place to protect your family financially if anything was to happen to you or your partner. If you don’t already have life insurance, it might be one of those things that you continuously push to the bottom of your ever-growing to-do list; below buying new school shoes, taking the kids to swimming lessons and to endless birthday parties. It’s time to stop putting it off though. All you ever want to do is protect your family, right? This is the ultimate superhero move. Life insurance can keep your family safe when … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Minced Beef and Onions Recipe….
My slow cooker mince beef and onions recipe is definitely my most cooked recipe and I only just realised that I'd never shared it with you before - how odd is that? I thought I'd put that right today...Slow cooker mince beef and onions can be made into so many different meals - you can serve it with a jacket potato or some veg, with Yorkshire puddings, dumplings or roasties or make it into a pie with pastry or mash as a topping. It freezes so well that it's a perfect meal to batch cook and it's so easy to make that you can easily just throw it all in the slow … [Read more...]
This time last year…. LA, Beverly Hills and Hollywood….
Hmmm, posts about LA, Beverly Hills and Hollywood don't really belong on a blog about living a frugal lifestyle, do they?Up until recently, I did kind of agree with that sentiment so even though, we've had some AMAZING holidays over the last couple of years, I haven't really shared all that much on here with you. But, after my post earlier this month, I thought I'd share some photos from last year's trip to LA with you because it was a year ago today that Miss Frugal and I were enjoying the last day of our holiday of a lifetime.I feel like I can genuinely call it a holiday of … [Read more...]
