I do love blogging, I really do. But sometimes I get caught up in it all and forget the one reason why I started blogging. You see, I didn't start blogging for all you lovely readers (although you're an amazing added bonus) and I didn't start blogging to make money or to be the best.I started blogging to keep a diary of sorts about the things we get up to as a family because it's more important to me than I can explain in a sentence that we have a record of our happy memories. But lately, we've made memories that I haven't shared on here because I didn't think the things we've done would … [Read more...]
Time Traveller – Disneyland Paris 2009….
This week I'm joining in with Marianne and her fantastic Time Traveller linky and I'm going to share one of our pre-blog holidays with you. We used to travel quite a lot when the kids were younger and even more so before we had them as I was a travel agent when I was younger and we took full advantage of the holiday freebies I was offered.I've got boxes of holiday photos in the garage and Miss Frugal and I often like to sit and look through them and there's so many that I could have chosen to share today but I chose this one because it's my happiest holiday memory. Disneyland Paris … [Read more...]
Five Frugal things I’ve done this week to save money {26th June 2015}….
Five frugal things I've done this week: 1. We finally cancelled Sky TV! A few weeks ago Virgin Media installed the fibre optic broadband in our street finally and we got some quotes which would save us money as well as give us much better broadband but we've been waiting for the man to pop around to sort it. He came earlier in the week and we're all good to go with an installation date of 11 July so we've cancelled Sky and BT finally.I had a dreadful experience with Sky which led me to complain on Twitter but their Social team arranged for someone to call me and a lovely lady rang and … [Read more...]
Can you be a friend to your daughter as well as her parent?
Miss Frugal is almost 13 now and I think we have a great mother and daughter relationship.We're also friends.Now, I know some of you will be shaking your head at me saying that we're friends because I see lots of people saying that they're a parent and not a friend to their children and although I understand why people say that, I don't agree at all.Don't get me wrong though, I am a parent first and I always make decisions with my parent hat on but I do believe that there's a way to be both a parent and a friend to my daughter by sticking to a few simple guidelines. I respect … [Read more...]
School residential trips – certainly not Frugal but are they worth the money?
Master Frugal left last Monday morning for a three night trip to Edinburgh with his classmates.The trip cost around £150 and we were told that £40 would be a good amount of spending money to send them. It seemed like a lot of money when we first signed the permission slip last year but he was so desperate to go with his friends that saying no was never an option!Fast forward to last Monday morning and as I dropped him off at school at the ridiculously early hour of 6am, I knew that I wasn't ready for him to go away for that long without me and to be honest, I didn't think he was ready … [Read more...]
#FabulouslyFrugal – Amazing quick and easy ideas for up-cycling charity shop bargains….
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am least crafty or artistic person around!I have brilliant ideas in my head but when it comes to the actual creation of the ideas, it rarely ends up looking like I wanted it to. So when I say that these ways to up-cycle your charity shop bargains are amazingly easy, you can rest assured that they most certainly are because if I can make them, anyone can!They're just simple ideas based on things that we've done but I hope you like them....This is a piece of wire stretched across the middle of a beautiful photo frame so Miss Frugal can … [Read more...]
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