Thrifty round-up: Jumpers, toast rudolphs & pom pom trees

Hello and welcome to Novembers’ thrifty round up.

Well Christmas is clearly on everyone’s mind and sadly Christmas bring money and spending it right to the forefront of our minds. Blimey I’ve even been making decorations out of toast ! Desperate times.

Here is a round up of some diverse, fun and useful thrifty posts from the blogosphere this month. Please do link up your own thrifty posts or any you’ve seen, below. Let us inspire each other.

Nicki from Curly and Candid writes this month about ensuring her children get a good education around money in The Importance of teaching Children about savings

Liz (Violet Posy) draws together some wonderful articles from a huge range of bloggers over at the Thrifty Christmas blog oh its marvellous so many tips and ideas all in one place!

Jade at Unique Young Mum has just bought her little fella Spud his first Christmas Jumper and she got a bargain too…so cute!

I am absolutely in love with this quick Christmas craft from Rainy Day Mum a pine cone pompom tree and how thrifty is it to use nature for your crafty fun with the kids!

Over on Family Budgeting I have been writing about whether we should ditch the Christmas wish list altogether. I would love to know your thoughts.

Keep focused this month and don’t go wild with your spending. It’s all down to good planning and RESTRAINT!!! Stay thrifty

Becky x

About Becky Goddard Hill

Becky is the author of How to Afford Time off with Your Baby (Vermilion, 2009) She writes Baby Budgeting and Family Budgeting both award nominated blogs whose purpose is to support parents on a budget. Becky also writes a play blog for Chad Valley toys and works part time as a children’s therapist. Becky has 2 children aged 5 and 8 and is a strong advocate of creative family life.

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