About frugal ways
You are on your way to work, maybe you are sat in traffic or watching the same old faces get on and off the bus, as you all join the conveyor belt of life, all dreaming of the weekend or, more common in 2009, a single day off.
- Was this what you dreamed of when you were a child?
- Is this how you saw yourself after all those endless hours of exams and homework?
- How much are you paying each month to travel to and from work?
- How much of your life do you think is wasted in this way?
Perhaps you have come across this website, whilst online, searching for some advice on getting your bank charges back. You have a customer complaint about a company and you are sick of running around, wasting yet more of your time trying to sort it out?
I was just like you!
What's life all about? Why am I spending hours in traffic going to the same old job? Where does my money go every month? Why do my bills increase faster than my wages?
Reading stories about health and safety stopping people from doing things, where did all the fun in life go?
I might not be alive tomorrow, if I looked down from above would I have had a good life? I doubt it... so I changed!
I changed everything, moved to part time work, doing a job I thought I'd enjoy. Juggled all my bills around, so I pay them when I want, without interest or charges, that line the pockets of suits hidden away behind desks, who have three holidays a year whilst I struggle on.
I started cooking for myself, I started growing my own fruit and veg in the garden, I started sourcing locally grown produce and meat.
Family became the focus (it was before, but now even more so) friends who needed a hand, or jobs doing that they couldn't afford to shell out huge sums of money for so called "experts" to do.
I go out in the rain and the snow. I play many sports. I pick fresh fruit I find locally. I bicycle now and again. I reuse things, I refuse outright to pay over the top prices, etc, I point out rip offs and so called sales that are nothing of the kind.
I am thrifty, frugal, call it what you will, I don't have much money in my pocket, because I don't need it!
I eat healthier than I have ever done, I laugh much more, I get help when I need it, I have more friends and more fun.
Does this sound appealing?
Why don't you join in then ![]()









