Following the steep rises in British Gas prices, Persimmon Homes has come up with an answer. Today the UK housebuilding giant put out a press release telling people to swap their current homes for new-builds. Home owners looking to reduce this latest impact of … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleIf you haven’t yet identified your cheapest energy supplier, there’s really no excuse for putting this off any longer. My quick and easy guide to doing this ASAP is at the bottom of this post. As you may have … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleDo you have houseplants? Don’t bother buying those special leaf cleaning products, such as these £3.99 Leaf Shine Wipes from Betterware. Just pop all your plants into the bathtub or shower, and spray them from above. It washes dust … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleTruprint is offering 50 prints for just 50 pence. The prints are sized 6″ x 4″. You can find the voucher at MyVoucherCodes - but the offer expires on 1 August, so don’t hang about.
Read the rest of this articleMorrisons is selling bunches of gorgous gladioli for just 1.49 a pop. Although the bouquets aren’t quite as sumptuous as the one pictured, it’s still a very good price. I love these flowers. I’m growing them in my garden, too.
Read the rest of this articleThis post from Nancy Zimmerman’s Money Coach blog gave me the chills. Although many of her clients are affluent professionals, she has encountered a “sub-set”: women in their fifties with no money to speak of. She writes: Often it’s not … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleOver at NET-A-PORTER.COM, Stella McCartney’s adidas range has just been added to the site’s summer sale, with discounts of 25 per cent and 30 per cent. These “wide leg skirt pants” have been reduced to £37.50, and the “tennis tank … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleWhen I walked into our downstairs bathroom yesterday, I found that the walls and tiled floor were crawling with flying ants. It was a very Amityville moment, and I immediately assumed the requisite facial expression, as per Margot Kidder in aforementioned … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleI’m very impressed by Princess Anne, who dusted off the dress she wore to the Prince of Wales’ wedding in 1981 and donned it again for another royal wedding at the weekend. I’m also impressed that the white and yellow … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleFill an empty perfume bottle halfway with olive oil and shake it. Voila: delicious-smelling bath oil is yours. I think I read this in Reader’s Digest half a lifetime ago. I was wary until I learned (probably from Just Seventeen or … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleThere’s been a lot in the press recently about the amount of food thrown away by households. Earlier this month a Cabinet Office report concluded that on average, a British family throws away £420 worth of food annually. That’s a whopping £8 every single … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleThere’s a great piece in today’s Sunday Times travel section, about holidaying in the beautiful Lake District and staying in barns. It’s a new initiative, set up by Lakeland Camping Barns. The facilities are basic, but you get a roof … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleBasil: Ants in the kitchen drove me mad last summer - until I discovered that basil is Ant Kryptonite. Buy a pot from the supermarket for £1.99 or thereabouts, put it in a bigger pot and
Read the rest of this articleThe Daily Telegraph’s round-up of 10 top supermarket wines features two great bottles for less than a fiver – from Lidl and Marks & Spencer . 1 2001 Baturrica Tarragona Gran Reserva, 13%vol, Spain (£4.49; Lidl). German-owned Lidl is a … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleGrowing your own vegetables? If, like me, you are doing battle with legions of horrid garden slugs, rest assured that help is at hand. Up until now, I’ve always gone for methods of slug control that are purse-friendly, but … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleA great piece in The Daily Telegraph, called Ten crafty ways to save £5,000 without trying. Some of them are old faves: stop buying lattes, ditch the expensive gym membership. But what I like is the financial value that has … Continue reading
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A label maven with a beady eye for bargains and a craving for saving, Miss Thrifty lives in Yorkshire, UK. And no, you won’t find her on a “homestead”, harnessing energy via a mini wind turbine and washing clothes with homemade soapflakes and a hand-cranked mangle.
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