Frugal
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 [...]
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 [...]
This question has been buzzing around in my head for a few weeks but a comment on someone else’s blog has driven it to the surface: are you still as frugal and green while you’re out & about or on holiday as you are at home? A few miscellaneous ideas that created the initial buzz: [...]
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I was thinking about this question the other day – is it easier to be super frugal as part of a couple or as a single person? – but I think I should immediately clarify that while I’m interested in hearing people’s thoughts on it, I have no intention of leaving my lovely boyfriend if [...]
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This month’s Which magazine* includes a section about supermarket food prices (apparently 57% of people are looking for reduced price food more now than they were a year ago, and 60% are using offers more – but 43% think most supermarket promotions are on unhealthy food) and an article about whether we should pick the [...]
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