It's been an interesting few months since reducing my grocery budget to £50 a week. There's been highs and lows. I'm managing to stick to the budget, but it's requiring some effort - for example having to shop at 4 to 5 separate locations. So last Friday I decided to try and do the whole of my grocery shop at Aldi. Being totally honest, I wasn't feeling ...
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Sticking To A Reduced Grocery Budget When The Honeymoon Period Is Over
It's relatively easy to do anything once. Doing something day in day out, week after week, takes a little more effort. That's what forming habits are all about. A habit is something you don't have to think about, you just do it. I'm probably not quite there yet with making the reduced grocery spend a habit - not yet anyway. Hitting a target of £50 each ...
How To Reduce Your Weekly Grocery Spend By 50%
At the end of June this year I conducted a Cooking From Scratch Experiment. I learnt a lot from doing it. Most of what I learnt came from you dear readers and your feedback. It made me think about how I was grocery shopping and preparing my meals, including the ingredients I was using and what I was purchasing. The experiment concluded that by 'Cooking From ...
The Spring Sale Starts! May-Jun 2011
The Spring Sale has started in a push to reduce our stuff further So far I have; Recycled two old phones = £30 Returned 3 items of clothing = £40 Returned a pair of boots = £120 less £12.50 the cost of having my old ones re-heeled and re-soled = £107.50 Participated in a car-boot sale =£45 So £222.50 in the black Now the Hubby isn't convinced I ...
True and Unrequited Love
Don't worry Guys I'm not about to get all soppy on you. It is of course St Valentines Day. We don't celebrate it at Chez Wright (that's what you get for marrying an Accountant with minimalistic tendencies) but being as the rest of the world is getting lurved up I thought I'd share something with you that is dear to my heart. Spending, or in my case - ...
Why I am a bit like The Queen
Have I ever mentioned I'm a bit like The Queen? Yes I'm British but it goes a little deeper than that. I don't carry money (well rarely anyway), and apparently (according to Gip over at So Much More Life) all The Queen carries is 'extra white gloves and note cards about who she will be meeting' Now I don't own any white gloves, so the similarities are ...