This week I seem to have spent lots of money on food but not much else. Having the house full with schools closed and eldest not going back to university has definately increased our food bill. Plus the heating has been on constant with cries of I’m cold, put the heating on!
Lockdown saves me money in many ways – no more coffees out and about but it can still be expensive.
One thing I’ve seen this week are people desperately needing old laptops for their children’s learning as there is now more of an expectation that learning will be online. If you have an old device many charities are cleaning them and getting them working again and passing them on to families in need. It is wonderful to see people coming together like this.
I have also seen that Morrisons are still doing the pre packaged up bags for those in food poverty. If you can when you are doing your shopping remember the food banks etc at this time who are more in demand than ever before. Everything donation will help another family out.
5 Fabulously Frugal Things I’ve Done this week
Firstly I have sorted out my kitchen cupboards to see exactly what food I had in. I am going to make sure I use the tins up that we have.
I have started running again, its great excersise and of course free to run in the great outdoors!
Sticking with fitness Aldi have come out on top with affordable fitness equipment that can be used at home. They have slam balls, weights and more to kit out your home workouts!
Degusta is a great way to try new foods at a good price. They are basically surprise boxes. Click the ad below to take you to the website.
Finally one of my favourite companies Atom are offering FREE online lessons to KS2 students. Atom was a saviour to us last time and they also offer 11plus prep which Erin used (and subsequentially passed). You can sign up via this link .
The schedule for next week and the following 4 weeks is:
- 9 am Up and Atom Lesson with Jono (Maths on Monday/Tuesday, English on Wednesday/Thursday)
- 11 am Verbal / Non-Verbal Reasoning with James
- 2 pm Atom in the Afternoon with Jono; this will build on topics covered in the 9 am lesson
- We will continue to run our normal 3/4 and 5/6 Maths and English clubs Mon-Thurs
These lessons will be live on Zoom and simultaneously streamed on our new youtube channel. Register today as these were really popular last time.
You can read about our experience with Online learning with Atom.
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I’m linking up with Cass, Emma and Becky in this week’s ‘Five Fabulously Frugal things I’ve done this week linky.
Every week we share five frugal things that we’ve done during that week just to show you that the small things you do all add up to a great frugal lifestyle where you can learn to live a fabulously frugal life. We’d love you to link up with us and show us what you’ve been doing.
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