Remember my post about homemade mason jar gifts from last year ago? Well, today I'm sharing one of my favourite mason jar gifts with you - amazing homemade cranberry and white chocolate cookie mix and I'm pretty sure you're going to love this festive cookie mix as much as we do!How to assemble your cranberry and white chocolate cookie mason jar gift What you need:300g plain flour (2 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour if you're using US measurements) 1 tsp baking soda ½ tsp salt ¼ tsp cinnamon 200g dark brown sugar (1 cup) 100g granulated sugar (½ cup) 150g white chocolate … [Read more...]
3 AMAZING Christmas DIY Sugar Scrubs….
Every Christmas, my most popular post (other than my 5 minute Nutella Fudge) is my Christmas DIY Sugar Scrubs which so many of you loved. A lovely lady tagged me on Instagram at the weekend after making the gingerbread sugar scrub which reminded me that I wanted to reshare this post with you again!It's no secret that Miss Frugal loves a good DIY or that she loves her beauty products so you probably won't be surprised to hear that at least once a week, she makes herself a DIY sugar scrub using some sugar, coconut oil and whatever else she fancies adding in.She's brilliant at … [Read more...]
Transferring Money Internationally – the Frugal Way….
We’ve always been a globally-minded nation. By the late 16th century, we had outgrown our island home. So, we set sail for far-away lands, claiming them in the name of the Crown.Britannia may no longer rule the waves, but, in the 21st century, our lives have never been more internationalised. Many of us own holiday homes in places like France or Spain. We have family that live and work in dozens of nations abroad. Our children study at universities in Canada, the United States, Australia, and elsewhere.As such, sending cash abroad has become a familiar errand. Because of this, we know … [Read more...]
Travel off the Beaten Track – Coron, Palawan
I'm sat here in New York as I write this, laid in my hotel bed wide awake at 4 am (NYC time) with no hope of going back to sleep by the looks of it. We're having an amazing time, as we always do but as I can hear the winds whipping around outside my window, I'm thinking that there's so much more of the world that I'd like to see. I know we're all about saving money here but I'm a big believer that travel and seeing more of the world is worth every penny so every now and again, I'm going to share a post with you about somewhere you've probably never heard of but would love … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {13th December 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 I 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've put together a bumper list of all my Frugal Christmas posts if … [Read more...]
Homemade Gingerbread Wreath….
Last year, Master Frugal made the most amazing Gingerbread wreath at school and it looked amazing! It looked that good that when I shared a photo of it on Instagram, I got about ten DMs asking me to blog about it. I tend to shut my laptop over Christmas though so I never got around to sharing it - until now!How to make a gingerbread wreath 350g plain flour 175g brown sugar 100g butter 1 egg 5 tablespoons of golden syrup 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 2 teaspoons of ginger (Master Frugal used more because he loves the smell of the ginger so ours was very gingery) Icing … [Read more...]
