Well what a week I have had. Money saving has been a low priority this week. Erin has been poorly and we ended up in hospital earlier in the week. She is ok now but it has been a tough week. This has meant that I have had little sleep, lots of stress and minimal time to look after myself and my finances! I have really had to think about how I have been frugal this week in preparation for our 5 Fabulously Frugal Things I’ve Done Linky.
5 Fabulously Frugal Things I’ve Done Linky
- I am off to Ascot next month to celebrate my best friends 40th birthday. I could easily have spent a fortune on a designer dress that I would wear once. Yet I made a budget and stuck to it. You can see what I am wearing in this post What to wear to the Royal Enclosure at Ascot Races.
- We have been looking at what activities are on our local doorstep rather than going further afield. We really enjoyed our day discovering Surprising Things To Do in The Forest of Dean and Wye Valley Area.
- Last Sunday we still managed to fit in a quick Yellow Sticker Food Shop. Marks and Spencer food is such a treat and when they are practically giving it away I am in my element. There is no scrum either it is a very civilised affair and worth going to town for on a Sunday Afternoon.
- I wanted to start comping again. I am a lucky person and will often win competitions but it is a little time consuming to enter. I took some time to enter some competitions and won a free meal for two at Bella Italia. Lee and I went for a date night dinner on Monday and really enjoyed it.
- Finally I have spent less on diesel because Chloe passed her driving test last week. This is saving me personally both time and money. We also have taken out a multi car insurance for all our cars which is saving us money on our previous insurances.
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Sorry to hear Erin has been poorly, hope she feels better soon. I didn’t realise you were a comper too, I’ve been entering comps for almost 15 years now and have some wonderful prizes and experiences. Good luck with your entries.
Wow – well done with the comping!
Well done with simply keeping things together – it can be so hard when there’s an illness in the family to deal with. And great tip about the multi-car insurance!
The M&S yellow sticker thing looks great. We have an M&S Food right near my house but I always give it a miss because I find it pricey. I did not realise they discount things on a Sunday. Do you think they do this at all the M&S Foods?
I like your blog and writing up a post now about the frugal things I have done this week – will try and link up (if I can figure out how to do it :))
Wow – you got some lovely bargains there. I miss our M&S!
So sorry Erin has been ill. Fun about the trip to Ascot and your other outings to the races. I loved going to the races pre-children, and we’ve only just started going again with a family day at Newmarket.
Faith A. recently posted…Five fabulously frugal things I did this week (12 May)
As a family of three with two full time working parents and a 2 year old we are trying to save for a deposit for a house. To do this we are trying to life the fugal life. Here is how we did it this week.
1. I am currently trying to bring my weekly shop down to £50. I got the closest ever to this this week by meal planning and buying most of my food at aldi, using my husbands discount at B&m and the rest at asda
2. To work out I now go running and use online work out videos-which coats me nothing
3. I swapped the tram to work for the bus which has saved me £50 a month
4. This week we have reduced our internet to the slowest speed available with our provider-saving us £20 a month
5. Now the warmer months are with us I try and spend no money at the weekend by making picnics and going on walks or using my bus pass to check out parks and free events in our local neighbourhood.