I must admit that I am not your regular frugal person. I don’t really believe in cheap. For me, I take the definition of frugal from the now deceased Jeff Smith, aka The Frugal Gourmet. His definition is: The term frugal does not neccessarily mean “cheap“. It means that you use everything and are careful with your time [...]
When you use your loyalty points to buy lunch instead of paying money and still feel guilty that you did not brown bag it. When you search out private views so you can get a free glass of wine. When you make your next Christmas gift list in December so you make sure you take [...]
I started full speed ahead on my highway to frugality about 2.5 years ago. I must admit that it did take me a bit to really get going but now I am at full throttle. The odd thing is once frugality becomes a habit, you don’t realize you are doing it. It becomes second nature, [...]
Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, here are some of my favourite frugal things. It is true that some of the best things in life are free or more accurately cheap. I have made a little list of my favourite frugal things because I find it helps to appreciate the little things while keeping an [...]
There are so many ways to say and to stay frugal so I have made a little alphabet list for you. Accountablity Budget Cooking Debt Effort Freedom Growing your own vegetables, herbs, chickens Homemade Invest in your future Justification of purchases – DON’T Keeping count Lean Times/Larder Money Negotiate the best price Open [...]
After last week’s sad post, I thought I would tell you some of my frugal quirks. I hope I am not the only person out there with strange frugal habits and fears. My beloved even sometimes thinks I am weird but I will let you be the judge of my weirdness. 1. I can’t throw [...]
When you embrace the frugal life you need to keep your eyes on the prize. The prize for me is to get married with as little or no debt as possible. What could be better than starting a new life without the burden of debt? I have embraced the frugal life and I must say [...]
Everyday I am finding more things I don’t know about that can affect my finances and therefore my quality of life. 1. A company you have a Direct Debit with can change the date they take the money from your account without writing you a letter. This just happened to me with Tiscali, they moved my [...]
Usually I plan and write my weekly menu on Monday but today I am stuck with some horrible flu that refuses to go away. I was really ill in bed yesterday but dragged myself into the kitchen to make chicken stock and to dry some tomatoes, both which were on their last legs. Being ill, [...]
Am I the only person that gets excited when September rolls around? Perhaps it is the idea of going back to school, buying new stationery and of course new clothes. I feel the end of summer brings a chance of reinvention, like the chubby kid that comes back after the summer looking stunning as the [...]
A colleague commented recently, she thought it was a bit strange that I don’t go out much and prefer to do my drinking at home usually with a meal that I prepared. She thinks I am a bit odd, perhaps I have a touch of agoraphobia outside the workplace, but no that is not the [...]
Being Lean should not be difficult or time consuming. I have a few tools I keep around the house to make living Lean a bit easier. I have small spatulas in different parts of the house – one in the bathroom to every last bit of skin cream out of jars and one in the [...]