Living the good life on a budget.
Hello June! I always feel a renewed optimism when a new month begins. May seemed to be a bit tough for our household, so I’m sure June will be better. It’s what you make it, right? 🙂 The thing I’m most looking forward to in June is that we are away for a week…
Happy Birthday to The Frugal Cottage! I cannot believe I have managed to keep something going consistently for so long. The only other thing I’ve managed to do for this long other than blogging is learning the piano 🙂 I started this blog way back on 1st June 2014 and here we are, four years…
I’ll be totally honest, I’m glad May is over and done with. It started off with me having chicken pox for the first time and being quite poorly with it. It really took me out of it, and just as I was feeling better, both Frugal Toddler and Frugal Baby got it. Frugal Toddler thankfully…
I get it, budgeting is not exciting. Keeping on track day in day out, is hard work at times. I have a spreadsheet that I’m supposed to enter our spends in each day to keep on track, but I keep forgetting lately. By the time we’ve got the boys in bed and then the house…
I cannot be the only one that finds it hard to believe we are nearly at the end of May, already?! I cannot believe how quickly 2018 is going so far. I’m sure that being so busy doesn’t help with that, because before I know it another day is over and another bed time routine…
When you’re trying to stick to a budget, whether you’re a seasoned pro or a newbie figuring out where all your money is going, then chances are you are going to be staying at home more often. Which means that you are going to spend a lot of time within the four walls of your…
I have been thinking about my spending habits lately, and how I seem to have good periods of spending and not so great ones. I think that there are a lot of factors to think about when it comes to personal spending and we all have our different triggers when it comes to spending money….
I have mentioned before about joining Slimming World and wanting to lose weight. But, to be honest, I have needed to lose weight for quite a while now. I managed really well in the run up to our wedding [so that I would fit into the dress I’d ordered] but since that I haven’t managed…
I recently wrote a post about what I and others would do when given £1,000 to spend. It was really interesting to read through the survey and see what the answers were; the majority opted for travel 🙂 as a money blogger, I said I would put the majority into our early retirement fund, plus…
Back when I was looking over our budget for April, and reflecting on how March had been, I decided to do a cash only challenge for April. Only for specific categories within our budget and using a set amount for the month. This was to try and get my spending back on track; the elusive…
