We all have ways we like to shop. My favourite is a mish-mash of supermarket delivery, the fruit and veg market and ethnic stores. Ethnic stores was mentioned in Think Ethnic. I keep a sort of shopping schedule, I do my internet order about every fortnight and go to the fruit and veg market every Saturday. [...]
Vinegar is the king of the multi taskers. You can use it for cleaning the kitchen, doing laundry, taking care of your pets, in the garden and more. This one very inexpensive item that can do so much more. I discovered the wonderfully informative site called Vinegar Tips. Please have a look, you will be [...]
I must confess I am unable to pass up a bargain. This trait in me does not make me popular when at airports as I can’t resist the Duty Free section. Every time I go to visit my family in the States I stock up on anything that is cheaper over there. Now that the [...]
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 [...]
A few months go, I wrote about Vinegar the Quiet Superhero, and now I am going to tell you all the things you can do with Bicarbonate of Soda aka Baking Soda. Most Americans will remember that their mother or grandmother always had a box of Arm in Hammer baking soda in the fridge to [...]
I must admit I am having a bit of an identity crisis. I used to work as a stylist, so I used to live fashion then I got tired of the constant need for the new and the very large strain on my finances. This was about three years ago then I started The Lean [...]
Do you remember when no one wanted to sit next to you at lunch because your Mom made you a stinky egg salad sandwich? So what did you do a the clever age of 10? You chucked it out of course, because you didn’t want to be the kid with the stinky sandwich. Well I [...]
There are a few ways to beat the banks and avoid bank charges. If you are a freelancer like me sometimes you may dance a bit close to the fire when paying your bills. Or you might be aggressively trying to beat your credit card debit by putting all your extra income towards those nasty [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
This week, I had a debate with myself. I was in desperate need of a visit to the hairdresser, it had been months and I was way past being able to fake it. I was given the name of a hairdresser that is cheaper than my lovely one that I have been going to for [...]