Five frugal things we’ve done this fortnight: Over the last few weeks we’ve actually started to do some long-awaited shopping, as we’ve built our savings up to a place where we feel comfortable with letting the purse strings loosen a bit. We still tried to get the best value we […]
Five frugal things we’ve done this fortnight: Yes, it’s GDPR day. This week’s onslaught of privacy policy emails has made me extremely happy that I sorted my privacy policies and newsletter compliance two months ago! They’ve also shown me just how many newsletters I signed up to years ago that […]
Five frugal things we’ve done this fortnight: Thank goodness for a gloriously sunny bank holiday weekend! It was great to sit in my new garden in the sunshine (and crack on with weeding). Our lawnmower broke on the first outing, but there’s a plan afoot to fix it with spare […]
Five frugal things we’ve done this fortnight: April is the month when our car insurance renewal comes around, and we always pay annually, so of course we never exactly look forward to a sizeable chunk of cash flying out the (car) window. Add in the other lingering costs of settling […]
Five frugal things we’ve done this fortnight: It’s been a fortnight for blitzing cash, to be blunt. The school holidays are tricky when your kids get to be teenagers: old enough to have formed strong opinions about what they do and with whom, but not old enough to arrange their […]
