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Frugal

These are all the posts in the “frugal” category.

Frugality is the centre point of this blog – a lot of the cooking, making, growing, and chickening posts are also really frugal living ideas. You may also be interested in charity shopping (aka using thrift stores) and anti-consumerism stuff.


Writing about my “I’ll keep a store cupboard in case zombies attack!” paranoia yesterday (ahem) reminded me that I wrote something for a personal finance website last year but for some reason, didn’t get around to sending it over. I’ve re-edited it to make it suitable for here/now but have kept it purely about the [...]

Continue reading about The financial pros and cons for building up a food store/pantry


These are the socks I’m wearing today: (Well, the “undersocks” I’m wearing today – I’ve got some big fluffy ones on top – I feel nude if I’m wearing less than two pairs of socks in winter :) ) I’m good at stitching up small holes in socks but when it comes to threadbare patches [...]

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I was in a bit of a sleep daze when I had a shower yesterday and accidentally lathered, rinsed and repeated. I’m not a girl who usually repeats, no matter what the side of the bottle says, but it reminded me of an old article that I re-read recently. The article was about portion control [...]

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This morning I tweeted that I think it’s going to take me most of 2012 to catch up on all my leftover stuff from 2011 – and this is one of those things! The Challenge Last year, I set myself the challenge of buying no more than 12 items of clothing in 2011 – and [...]

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Hi guys, sorry for the radio silence for the last few days – I went on a drama training course on Tuesday and have only just recovered ;) It was a lot of fun and very useful but I’m farrrrr too lazy for what was essentially a five hour exercise class. My neck is sore [...]

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This was originally going to be a much longer post on two vaguely connected things but I think it confused the issue lumping them together, so I’ve split it up – pennies today, the other thing tomorrow. A few weeks ago, there was an interesting article on Get Rich Slowly about picking up pennies. (I’ve [...]

Continue reading about Ponderings #1 – on pennies