It is rather hard to be frugal at this time of year. I find that I am spending more and I also lose track of my spending. I know Christmas is not all about material things but I still find myself in turmoil between buying things for the sake of it because I don’t think the children have enough presents. We are often really busy at this time of year which stops us taking the time to be frugal – for example nativity costumes. Erin is an Angel and I should / could have put together an outfit yet instead I just bought one from the supermarket. She will wear it twice and that is it – hardly a good investment piece!
A beautiful winters walk to school this morning.
Here is how I have managed to be frugal this week:
- I always treat the children to Friday sweets after school on Fridays. This week I was buying them just as the poinsettia’s was being reduced from £2.50 to 52p . I bought one and so did two of my friends!
- Buying the sweets I look for a pack of four for a £1 and split them rather than spending 60p on each bar. This is why I buy them before school finished, otherwise they all want to choose different sweets which would double the cost.
- The supermarkets have some get festive drinks offers on again this week. Therefore I bought bottles to get 25% of the price. This effectively gave me over a bottle free.
- A new gym opened that has good parking facilities and even better is that it is just £10.99 a month if you joined up quickly. This is an opening offer and I made ure I joined up within the timeframe. It is much cheaper than my old gym (less than a third of the old membership I had). And yes I have been already!
- Finally Chloe listed some clothes on a Facebook selling site and was pleased to have sold a few things.
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