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How to Make an Advent Calendar: Part One - Get Ready!
I recently posted about getting organised for Christmas by the end of November, including gift-buying and homemade decorations. We want to have a frugal Christmas, and this means DIY and festive...
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How to Make an Advent Calendar: Part Two - The Bags
A few days ago I started to describe how to make an Advent calendar.I think making your own advent calendar is great way of starting a tradition, perhaps with your children or in my case a new home....
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No Spend Week
I have just returned from a weekend visiting my family in Cornwall. It was lovely to see everyone and spend some time away from the buses, people and street art that make up Bristol. I now have a busy...
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How to Make an Advent Calendar: Part Three - Triangular Pockets
Last week I posted about making an Advent calendar out of scraps of fabric. A week ago I described how to make little bags to fill with goodies. Today I will tell you how to make the next items for the...
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Challenge Updates: Bills, No Spend and Christmas!
Christmas Completed by DecemberSFT asked whether everyone was winning at the Christmas Done by December challenge. Just to recap, my targets were to get Christmas gifts completely finished, to buy one...
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Say No to Payday Loans this Christmas!
Christmas is coming. Shops are looking to drain every last penny from their customers, and payday loan companies are happy to provide you with a boost of money to spend... for a price. A new report...
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How to Make an Advent Calendar: Part Four - Mini Stockings
Hey-ho Advent calendar crew! :)Sarah over at The Little Family of 3 had some nice suggestions of things to put in a homemade Advent calendar. She said she fills hers with little decorations for the...
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How to Make an Advent Calendar: Part Five - Finishing Touches!
Today is the moment of truth, but first there's one last job to be done!You will need:Cardboard or thick paper in a festive colour (I have red)Mini pegsApproximately 4 metres of ribbon / twinePVA glue,...
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At the start of November I gave myself one month to get ready for Christmas by December. It was based on SFT's challenge to get all of her Christmas shopping done before the 1st of December, but I...
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How Much Can You Save By 'Letting It Mellow'?
Let's get down to the business of doing one's business. I came across an old post over on The Simple Dollar, calculating how much the average American would save by following the mantra, “If it's...
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Homemade Christmas Decorations!
Hello! I come bearing tidings of great joy, in the form of a couple of snazzy Christmas decorations you can make on the cheap!Glitter swirl baubleThese are so simple to make but I love them! :) You can...
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What's Your Favourite Thing About Christmas?
Hello all! How is your run up to Christmas going? We've been busy visiting The Boyfriend's family, going to carol concerts, wandering through the Christmas markets in town, drinking mulled wine... :)My...
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Merry Christmas!
Hello everyone! It's been a mad couple of days down here in sunny chucking-it-down Cornwall. The Boyfriend and I travelled home on Friday, which was lucky as it's been the only day where the rain has...
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Christmas Gifts
Hello! I hope that you've all had a lovely Christmas!I thought I'd share with you some great Christmas gifts that I received that might be of use as ideas for you to use next year! First off, coffee! I...
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Goodbye 2012!
2012 has been a great year for me in many ways.Good:Won a PhD position, and started in OctoberIncreased my net worth from basically zero to have an Emergency Fund and cash saved for expenses throughout...
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Hello 2013!
Happy new year! I hope you all had a lovely night! We went to Truro to watch the fireworks, surrounded by bananas in pyjamas and lego men! :)C'mon then, let's hear 'em! What're your...
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The True Cost of Bottled Water
Convenient, environmentally-damaging, expensive? In 2009, the Australian town of Bundanoon voted to ban the sale of bottled waterin an effort to reduce the use of resources and amount of plastic ending...
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Bodge It Together Quiche!
Things never go to plan when I'm cooking! I thought I'd make myself a nice cheese and onion quiche for my lunch for the next couple of days. Unfortunately my last onion was all had gone all pink,...
View ArticleI Earned £1 in Ten Seconds!
Haha, that title sounds like a dodgy ad! :)We've just got back from Tesco. It's one of the big ones with chained trolleys that you have to inset £1 to use. (Good way of getting around these if you've...
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Is It Worth Selling Your Car?
I once recommended that new graduates should go car-free if at all possible. It's time to take my own advice.When we first moved to Bristol we decided to keep Jools the Peugeot. We thought that the...
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