Category: "Frugal victories"
Energy saving fight back - Washing clothes
By Value hunter on Nov 13, 2011 | In In real life, Common sense, In the home, Frugal wars, Frugal victories | 2 feedbacks »
Saving money on doing the laundry every week in theory, should be easy. As part of our home's energy saving fightback [in which we look at everything we do from week to week] applying the simple process of breaking down each cost the savings appear… more »
Dad diary - The terrible twos, barriers and digging out footings...
By Value hunter on Jul 14, 2011 | In In real life, Common sense, In the home, Frugal victories, Baby, Dear diary | Send feedback »
As is our luck, it seems with sprog2, we have hit the "terrible twos." Previously we have seen the odd tantrum, the odd comical bottle/cup throwing in the face, the screaming abdabs over a pencil or random piece of paper that was being stuffed in the… more »
The road to being frugal - day trips out
By Value hunter on Apr 20, 2011 | In Fun, Money chat, Common sense, Frugal wars, Frugal thinking, Frugal victories | Send feedback »
To business, you are a cash cow to big profits whenever you decide to venture on a day trip out. Your guard to being thrifty and protecting your hard earned money, naturally drops, when it should be at its most alert! The ice cream van in the park on a… more »
Car repairs - try your local college!
By Value hunter on Apr 5, 2011 | In In real life, Frugal wars, Frugal thinking, Thrifty shopping, Frugal victories | Send feedback »
The days of car body repairs being done at home, by the car owner are sadly long gone. We live in an age where everything car related has to be covered by an insurance premium and backed up by a no claims protection premium. As most garages charge the… more »
Frugal ways beats Tesco!
By Value hunter on Sep 17, 2010 | In Bad business, Frugal wars, Thrifty shopping, Frugal victories | Send feedback »
When my local Tesco store were selling Lurpak at a 50p higher price than you could buy it from the same store, same shelf, if you placed an order online, I watched their shelf price for almost two weeks. Nothing changed. Once we had run out of said… more »
