Saving Money

As I have been doing this for a couple of weeks now, I thought I would do something a little different this week and talk about my meal planning top tips.  I’ve been meal planning for a few months now and weathered some strange weeks where no day is normal, guests arrive out of the […]

It’s week three for my Frugal Friday Five and at first I did not think that this was going to be a frugal week.  After dropping and breaking one of our three remaining dinner plates, I kind of snapped.  This resulted in spending spree replacing all the things that we have been “coping” with for

Despite the rain that hit us late last week, we had some lovely days together as a family.  My husband had four out of seven days off so we had so much time together.  We had an impromptu day at the beach on Saturday and this derailed the meal plan a bit.  But I am

Although now it may feel as though we are still deep in the throes of summer (as teacher I am acutely aware of this), autumn is not too far away.  This may seem like a negative but autumn is a magical time of year and it also presents the perfect opportunity to save some money. 

The rain has finally caught up with us!  We have had weeks and weeks and months and months without rain here.  There was a thunderstorm a couple of weeks ago but that was short-lived.  Finally we have decent amount of rain and the grass has a slight green tint to it.  However, wet weather generally