I am not a naturally organised person and in the past I've missed important events because I've either completely forgotten about them or I've simply left it too late to make the necessary arrangements for me to be there.Aside from July (which is always chaos with the end of the school year), Christmas is probably the most chaotic time of the year for us as a family and as a working Mum, I really need to plan ahead in order to make sure that I don't forget anything!For the last few years, I've spent five minutes making myself a little printable Christmas planner for me to stick on the … [Read more...]
What to do when you can’t afford to heat your home….
Have you ever woken up to a cold house and realised that your boiler's on the blink and had to make do with very little other than wearing extra layers, snuggling under blankets and drinking cups of tea until it's fixed?We did last Christmas when we woke up to no heating on Christmas morning and I can tell you, in case you've never been through it that it's not a pleasant experience at all. We were without heat for just a few days and although it was awful, it was almost an adventure for the kids as we found new ways to keep warm and laughed about how we were having a white Christmas … [Read more...]
Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato Bubble and Squeak….
Did you know that in the UK every year we waste around 15 million tonnes of food every year? To put that into context, the average British family wastes around £700 a year on food that they're throwing away instead of using it up.We've reduced our food waste massively over the years simply by meal planning, using our freezer more and getting creative with our leftovers as I know lots of you lovely people have done too but there's clearly still a long way for us to go as a nation!That's why Sainsbury's have started their clever 'Waste less, Save more' campaign. They want to help … [Read more...]
5 Minute Nutella Fudge
Nutella fudge is something that I've been meaning to make for at least the last two years but I've never actually got round to making it though because there are at least a million Nutella fudge recipes online (me, exaggerate?) and each one of them seems a little different.I've read comments on posts where people have had a disaster with theirs not setting and I've also read comments where it hasn't been Nutella-y enough. Wasting perfectly good Nutella is not something my children would forgive me for so I just never ended up making it.But when I was planning my Christmas … [Read more...]
Five Fabulously Frugal Things I’ve done this week {25th November 2016}….
1) Miss Frugal is going out for afternoon tea with her friends at the end of the month and they've all been talking about what they're going to wear for weeks. I promised Miss Frugal a new dress as she doesn't really have any nice dresses that fit her anymore after a little growth spurt over the Summer - she'd quite happily wear all of her favourites as they do fit her but they're a lot shorter than they used to be so I thought a new dress was definitely in order.She went shopping with her friends and couldn't find anything she liked for under £25 which was the budget I gave her so when … [Read more...]
A handy list of some of the most popular eBay outlet shops….
I've been a fan of the eBay outlet shops since I bought a laptop from the Argos outlet store as it was such good value at the time. It was a model that I couldn't find in the catalogue at the time but all the specs looked good and it was a good £100 cheaper than the models I was looking at in shops and anywhere else online.It was so much cheaper in fact that I was a bit (a lot) suspicious of how it could be so cheap and I'd pretty much decided before it was even delivered that this would be my last purchase from any of the eBay outlet shops. I had myself convinced that it would be broken … [Read more...]
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