How a cheap glamping weekend in Yorkshire has changed my mind about camping: I’ve never been keen on camping. I’ve done it a few times, with mixed experiences; the best was probably as a child, camping on the East Coast of Barbados, and the worst was spending a freezing night […]
Five frugal things we’ve done this week? I was struggling to think of one! I was going to miss this week, but I thought I’d give it a go because to be honest, sometimes it’s good to stretch yourself. I didn’t think we’d been remarkably thrifty this week, so I […]
Our kitten birth story: When I came home from work on Monday, I wasn’t expecting to start a new shift as a cat midwife. Braxton-Hicks contractions in cats The week before, I was stroking our cat’s pregnant tummy and, noticing how it tensed and went hard for short periods of […]
Here are three things that can help you to stick to your savings goals. I’ve written about my experience of feeling burnt out by a seemingly unattainable savings goal in this post – this video is a distillation of what I’ve learned from that time, and being able to reach […]
5 frugal things we’ve done this week… I’ve had to finish this week’s post on my son’s desktop PC, as it seems my laptop battery has decided to simply stop. It looks like next week won’t be a frugal one at all! But each week’s worries to itself, right? Here […]
