
I have been doing this blog for nearly two years and have written about lots of money saving ideas. I also have a new site a zillion ideas with more ideas on saving money and being frugal. Today on a zillion ideas I looked at planning journey’s to save on petrol. That blog is worth reading. If you’re careful, you can also save and then become debt free and instead of paying interest to the bank; they pay you interest. You can save on many things from food shopping to motoring costs. The key to saving money though is to cut waste and to get value for money.
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9, August 2012 | Categories: Thrifty Thursday | Tags: being a trend setter, cutting waste, England, expensive prom nights, fashion, freedom from consumer slavery, Olympic Games, prom, resisting social pressure, saving, street fashion, value for money | 2 Comments

I took this photograph not far from my home and it’s of a particularly well maintained church. Don’t get the idea that this is the English Countryside. The cars just visible to the left of that tree were streaming off the M6 motorway at rush hour! Junction 9 is probably the busiest in the country but we still found somewhere to go to take photographs that was interesting. Earlier that afternoon it was very cloudy and the light was bad but we still took some photographs of a railway. This was near my old school and so I took a few photographs of that too. This shows you can find places to go that doesn’t cost a fortune and why not take the kids? (more…)
7, July 2011 | Categories: Thrifty Thursday | Tags: 99p, interest rates, intoductory offers, IPhones, photography, prom, Thrifty, vitamin B12 | 7 Comments