At this time of year, thoughts begin to turn to gifts for friends and family. Many people like to make a hamper, and many including me, love to receive one!
Home Made Christmas Hampers
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Saving Money
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A budget Christmas?
November and December can easily be spent in an absolute frenzy of spending with hundreds and hundreds of £’s being put on a credit card. But who says you have to do any of it if you don’t want to. There are many ways to keep Christmas affordable
How Supermarkets Get Us To Buy What We Don’t Really Need
First published in 2017, still as relevant today. Now that we are thinking about rejoining society after our enforced Covid lockdown, perhaps we need to be even more aware of the ways we can be persuaded to part with more money than we were planning. I haven't been...
How To Make Beeswax Wraps & A Sandwich Bag for mere pence
How to make reusable beeswax wraps and a sandwich bag, and for just pennies
A myriad of 5 Things
5 Things to do inside, outside, in the school holidays, to cook for tea and many others
Would generic weekly meals help you meal plan?
As many budgeters know, there are certain generic meals that can be endlessly modified, as well as all the wonderful recipes for these generic recipes, they will swallow whatever you have available, help in the weekly fridge clean out and use up all kinds of bits and pieces. I’ve been musing about it for a while and this week I thought that it would be perfectly possible to meal plan around generic meals.
Valentine’s Day on a Budget
You really really really DO NOT HAVE TO SPEND ANY MONEY AT ALL. Please do not get sucked into that idea that it doesn’t count unless you have bought an expensive gift and splashed out on an expensive Valentines meal out
Progress at last!
For the last 18 months, we have been trying to get planning permission to convert our loft space.
Lots of phone calls and a few tickets
As husband and I are using trains more often, I decided it was time to get a Senior Railcard
A Sunday walk that left me feeling refreshed and uplifted
Just a quick post today to tell you about some free fun we had today. Walking is the most popular leisure activity in the UK. It’s good for our well being, our health, obviously, and all sorts of good things health wise can come from it. And I’m sure the fact that...
Practically free soup using old veg and peelings stock
Diet The diet started again yesterday and the 3 pounds I’d gained have gone again as of this morning. Went to help our eldest do some unpacking yesterday as they moved whilst we were away – good planning on our part I thought! Left theirs needing a shower after (not...
Regrowing vegetables from waste
Do you remember us talking about regrowing vegetables from waste? This post had some spring onions. Well, a while ago, I put some spring onion stubs in an egg cup until they grew baby roots, then put them in the garden. These whoppers are the result! I have in fact...