From the category archives:

simple living

Five Items from My Wardrobe

Every Friday me and some of my blogging/twitter buddies post our top 5 of …{insert subject}. This week it’s favourite five things from your wardrobe; you can find similar posts by searching the #Friday5 on Twitter or visiting Caroline’s blog which has a Mister Linky.

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Be frugal, be green {er}

I’ve been reading this blog a lot; Jacob’s reasoning, on numerous things, resounds with me. Not because I want to retire early, too late for that {although I would like my husband to be able to}, but because I want to be less of a consumer; extreme frugality lends itself well to cutting down consumption.

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Reader Question: Do you make your own bread?

Hello lovely readers I need your advice; I’d love to hear your thoughts on bread making.

A little bit of background: our family eats approximately 4 loaves a week and I buy the multi seed loaf that costs approximately £1.50 if it’s not on offer {I don’t have a large freezer, so I can’t buy it in bulk} Bread {just loaves} is therefore costing about £25 a month.

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Getting Things Done Monday {and this week}

This week is the week of getting things done; I know I should have time to have a completely empty to do list but somehow I haven’t. I have a few excuses but I’m not focusing on them, I’m just going to get my butt in gear and get things done, all done, by the [...]

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My Dream Budget

It’s a strange thing sitting down to plan your dream budget, I mean, it’s a dream budget so you could easily run riot with spending allowances as you have carte blanche to do anything, spend anything, dream anything. Five years ago I think my imaginary future budget would have involved having about £5k a month [...]

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Put some sparkle…..in your budget

I feel a new budget coming on. I feel like mixing it up. I feel like changing things. I’m going to start with a blank piece of paper and write down our ideal budget. Then I’m going to see how far away from that our actual budget is. Then I’m going to make adjustments. Watch this space, [...]

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Adapting our meals

Since I took the decision to stop eating meat I’ve been slowly learning to adapt the food we eat to take in every one’s taste; I didn’t want to cook different foods every night and I didn’t want to stop the rest of my family eating meat……they like it Here’s something I made this week, spot the [...]