Diary of a Frugal Family

I absolutely love spring, I think it is my favourite time of the year. We have just gone through the winter months of frost, gloomy dark nights and wearing far …

Well a very welcome hello from me, I just can’t believe that we are in October already!  You’ve all been extremely busy with your home and design posts last month, …

I suspect most of you who read this are parents and we are now just on the cusp of the summer holidays. Talking to friends I find that parents react …

It is a new year; and so this is the time of resolutions, and new starts; what will 2014 bring to us all? For me; I have a word that …

Hello lovely people – its seems as though I just get my head around one thing, only for me to decide it’d be a “really good idea” to start some …

This month I have mostly been getting scared. That’s a bit weird I know, but two reasons: I went ski-ing, and I am s**t-scared of that I worked from home, …

Hello, nice to see you here. I’d love to say isn’t it great Spring has arrived but I think that is just wishful thinking, it is still deadly cold where …

  I love autumn fashion; big warm coats and lovely winter boots but none of these items come cheap do they?  Thrifty fashion has been firmly on my mind as …