It's Friday Guys - time for No Waste Tastes Great Simply Being Mum's Friday Fridge What's behind the closed-door? My groceries for the week. Packed to the rafters. Why did I shop a day early this week? Deviating from my usual Friday routine. Because of these: It may sound like a contradiction but sometimes I buy more food in order to reduce waste. ...
Food Waste Friday / What Does Dinner Mean To You?
Each week since March 2008, in order to motivate her to waste less food, Kristen The Frugal Girl, has posted a picture of any food that has gone bad over the last seven days. She found this embarrassing practice so helpful, to her, that she invited other bloggers to post their own photos, and Food Waste Friday was born. I started participating in October ...
Is It Useful? Is It Beautiful?
What might our homes look (and function) like if the criteria upon whether precious space is allocated, to stuff, is always based on 2 simple questions? Is it useful? Is it beautiful? Mine would look, and function, much better. It would be a major improvement. But are these simple questions? I'd suggest not. What is beauty? What is usefulness? These ...
No Waste Tastes Great Part 2 – My Welsh Fridge
As promised this Friday's fridge is a little different to usual. Simply Being Mum's Welsh Fridge And this is my Welsh waste - Boo :( (Although it was actually purchased in England) We've spent a lovely few days at one of our favourite Spring break hideouts. The Welsh Hills. Those who follow me on Instagram will have seen some of the photos I have ...
No Waste Tastes Great – Part 1
This Friday's No Waste Tastes Great is bought to you in a 2-part special... I'd like to share an infographic this morning... (Although asked to share this, I am in no way compensated for this infographic. It just seemed like something that may be of interest. The full infographic can be found here) This evening there will be a fridge photo. A fridge photo ...
The Cost of Storage
There was a really interesting show on BBC 2 last week. Business Boomers - Real Storage Wars "The second documentary in the Business Boomers series discovers why Britain came to have the biggest self-storage industry in Europe, when just three decades ago the industry didn't even exist in this country." (source: www.bbc.co.uk) (digressing slightly, the ...
Happy Easter 2014
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Food Waste Friday / Spring Clean Your Fridge
Each week since March 2008, in order to motivate her to waste less food, Kristen The Frugal Girl, has posted a picture of any food that has gone bad over the last seven days. She found this embarrassing practice so helpful, to her, that she invited other bloggers to post their own photos, and Food Waste Friday was born. I started participating in October ...
Spring Cleaning / Let The Big Declutter Commence
There are many possible origins to the term 'Spring Cleaning'. A quick search on Google will uncover most of them. But my very favourite, and the one I always use as my point of reference dates back to prehistoric times. "Spring cleaning origins probably most date back to prehistory, and represent the time when it was easiest to conduct a good cleaning of ...
And We Are Scheduling The School Holidays Once More
Spring is my favourite time of year. Easter is my favourite holiday of all. The world is waking up, there's a feeling of optimism and energy in the air. I'm someone who believes that my time is the greatest gift I can give my children. I'm also an advocate of developing family traditions and creating memories. Let's talk about traditions first. ...