Creative ideas to help families make and save money
Have you heard of Idealo? It rocks! Idealo.co.uk is a price comparison site which scans more than 14,000 retailers and has more than 300,000 products listed on it’s site. It is such a useful website. I used it recently to purchase a microwave. Ours was old and dilapidated and as part of out home makeover it really [...]
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Frugal expert and follower of fashion, Jacqueline Cohen, has launched a new fashion site aimed at giving women who love to shop, an online space to switch outfits as well as keeping up to date with the latest style news and trends. We all know keeping on trend is becoming a costly activity that requires [...]
This week my family loves Flubit. It is a completely brilliant money saving website for families on a budget. Take a look at how it works.. I was challenged to buy items up to the value of £50 on Flubit and see what savings I could make. I decided to treat me and my other half for [...]
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ~Erma Bombeck
I am loving the thrifty fashion I picked up at a swishing party recently I have been promising to talk about the swishing party I went to with my good friend Amanda from the Ana Mum Diary blog for ages and I keep getting sidetracked. Well I have tea , toast and half an hour [...]
Is shopping good therapy? If you are feeling down do you cheer yourself up by shopping or treat yourself to something nice to make yourself feel better? Many many people do. When I was bought up we lived near a Birds cake making factory. (I know cool right! – this is why I am currently [...]
Is it cheaper to shop online? I think a lot of it depends on how visually persuadable you are and I am! If I glimpse a bright new toy out the corner of my eye at my local Asda as I’m buying my apples, the next second I am in the play dough aisle popping [...]
For eleven weeks, eight families shared their thrifty saving and spending tips with the nation, via an online blog at nectar.com/savvy2011. Although each family’s blogs were different, they all shared a common theme of turning to simple, traditional household skills such as home cooking, growing vegetables and DIY. They combining old fasdhioned home economics withsavvy internet deals [...]
