The Diary of a Frugal Family

Today's post is all about my kitchen cabinet painting adventures over the weekend!Our house wasn't even built when we bought it so we were lucky enough to be able to choose the layout of our kitchen and also choose from a (limited) range of doors, handles and worktops. I say limited because our budget meant that we didn't really want to be paying extra for the premium range so we stuck to the basic range which meant that we wouldn't need to pay any extra.  There was still enough in the basic range for me to choose something I loved though and after much deliberation (and … [Read more...]

Remember last month when I said that Master Frugal had a cheeky idea to transform our Jammy thumbprint cookies into Nutella Thumbprint cookies? Well, he only went and did it...These Nutella thumbprint cookies turned out amazing although I'll be honest, they're not how I would have made them.  I would have replaced some of the flour with cocoa like I would if I was making a chocolate sponge cake but we didn't have any cocoa powder in so rather than wait, he decided to melt a bag of bourneville (dark) chocolate button and pop that in the mix. It turned out so well though so I forgave … [Read more...]

There'll be no excuse for being disorganised and forgetting to do things once you've read all the ways to remind yourself to do something that I'm sharing today! There are times when I feel like I have so much to remember that my head could quite possibly explode! Everything from things I need to buy when I go shopping to cancelling free trials and from appointments to lightbulb moment ideas that come to me in the night. And don't even get me started on the million and one other random things I need to remember to do on a daily basis. In order to keep my head from exploding, I have lots of … [Read more...]